I read it right after it was posted.
Read it again after dinner. Just read it a third time.
What's his point? If this it:Is that supposed to be news?"...McCaffrey noted that "this will inevitably become a 3-to-10 year strategy to build a viable Afghan state with their own security force that can allow us to withdraw. It may well cost us an additional $300 billion and we are likely to suffer thousands more U.S. casualties." "
Strikes me as yet another (mostly) useless attempt to compare Afghanistan to Vietnam. I wish these people would find something else to do....
"On the plains and mountains of the American West, the United States Army had once learned everything there was to learn about hit-and-run tactics and guerrilla warfare."
T.R. Fehrenbach This Kind of War
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