Tom Ricks comments
I've been reading a monograph compiled by the 4th Brigade of the 101st Airborne (AKA 506th Infantry) in which its company commanders were surveyed about what they learned during their deployment to southeastern Afghanistan from March 2008 to March of this year. They also were asked for their advice on how to prepare for deploying.
With a summary provided as the document was behind an AKO wall.

See: http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts...from_the_front

In fact the AAR appeared last week on www.cryptome.org as: af-barrel-02.zip Afghan Cdr AAR Book (Currahee Edition) 16th October 2009.

Take a peek, lots of gems there; there are some odd features to the document and maybe some things have disappeared (from a SWC reader far more familiar than I with US Army documents).

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