vendredi 23 septembre 2011

For new commanders in Afghanistan, a fine balance

FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHARANA, Afghanistan ?Col. Edward Bohnemann leaned over the rocky bluff at the edge of his brigade?s most remote outpost, staring into a valley near the Pakistan border that is peppered with mud-baked huts and is home to a sea of insurgents.

Bohnemann?s subordinate officers pointed to mountain ridges in the distance, outlining a strategy to vanquish the insurgents by expanding the U.S. presence in the area. But as an incoming commander during the last years of America?s 10-year-old war, Bohnemann wasn?t convinced.

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