Combat Outpost Penetrated in Afghanistan, 9 dead

[jcustis]

Here is an item from the Ares Blog I thought might be of interest.

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs...entId=blogDest

It is about success the French are having going out on up to 10 day long patrols with Afghan forces.

I'm unpleasantly surprised that this is a big revelation for the command element mentioned in the article.

I am pleasantly surprised that they have found a way to get the Afghan security forces working with them to stay out that long (perhaps they are rotated halfway through the ten days ), because at about the 72-96 hour mark, I've observed effectiveness to plummet.