on or near the borders of Afghanistan's neighbors as well as Iraq's. Other places come to mind as well. Pershing was operating in a semi-permissive/non-permissive environment. Lots of good lessons here from nearly 100 years ago.

Cheers

JohnT

I am always amazed by how much military scholarship knew about small wars in the past and actually recorded it as did British Colonel C. E. Calwell and the Marines who wrote the SWM.