Really? Well, I guess the US military has extended the generational war this far, if it can make it to November 2016 there actually might be a forever war, right?
Here is a definition to war in defense of USA the military needs to incorporate into their manual.
"If a war takes 14 years without resulting in the safety of the people of the USA, then the war failed.' Completely failed.
I tell you what, if the USA military left Afghanistan today, the country would never have to worry about Osama bin Laden again. That is a fact.
War becomes a failure when it drains a country of it's treasury so it can't afford war anymore. Take that to the Joint Chiefs planning table when they sign on for complete failures in spending like the F-35. The F-35 makes the USA military weaker and not stronger. Use that understanding to spending. It would be a good beginning in recapturing a military that works. When a military spending program costs more than a year of USA budgetary spending, it is draconian and should never exist. END THE DRONE DEVELOPMENT, too! I don't want Dick Cheney to have a military he can control from his war bunker.
January 19, 2015
By Michelle Tan
As the Afghan National Security Forces (click here) prepare for another tough fighting season, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said he could still recommend extending the mission and keeping more U.S. troops in country.
"I'm taking a look and assessing every day based on the enemy situation, based on how much we're getting done with the Afghans, how they're progressing on their lines of effort, how the [Train, Advise and Assist mission] is going, how the government's coming along, [and] if we can really get after the objectives that we set," said Gen. John Campbell, commander of the Resolute Support mission, during an interview Jan. 15 with Army Times.
There are about 10,600 U.S. troops in Afghanistan today; plans call for that number to drop to 9,800 by May 1 and 5,500 by the end of the year. It's too early to say, Campbell said, if he'll ask for permission to keep more troops in theater....
Here is a definition to war in defense of USA the military needs to incorporate into their manual.
"If a war takes 14 years without resulting in the safety of the people of the USA, then the war failed.' Completely failed.
I tell you what, if the USA military left Afghanistan today, the country would never have to worry about Osama bin Laden again. That is a fact.
War becomes a failure when it drains a country of it's treasury so it can't afford war anymore. Take that to the Joint Chiefs planning table when they sign on for complete failures in spending like the F-35. The F-35 makes the USA military weaker and not stronger. Use that understanding to spending. It would be a good beginning in recapturing a military that works. When a military spending program costs more than a year of USA budgetary spending, it is draconian and should never exist. END THE DRONE DEVELOPMENT, too! I don't want Dick Cheney to have a military he can control from his war bunker.
January 19, 2015
By Michelle Tan
As the Afghan National Security Forces (click here) prepare for another tough fighting season, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said he could still recommend extending the mission and keeping more U.S. troops in country.
"I'm taking a look and assessing every day based on the enemy situation, based on how much we're getting done with the Afghans, how they're progressing on their lines of effort, how the [Train, Advise and Assist mission] is going, how the government's coming along, [and] if we can really get after the objectives that we set," said Gen. John Campbell, commander of the Resolute Support mission, during an interview Jan. 15 with Army Times.
There are about 10,600 U.S. troops in Afghanistan today; plans call for that number to drop to 9,800 by May 1 and 5,500 by the end of the year. It's too early to say, Campbell said, if he'll ask for permission to keep more troops in theater....
