I am working on a new model where the only source I consider authoritative on the war in Af/Pak is the Long War Journal. Roggio's accuracy record crushes any other source. Today he has some bad news that is going to be played for a lot of political and other points by a lot of people. Three US soldiers involved in the training of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps were among nine people killed in a roadside bombing near a girls' school in Pakistan's insurgency-infested Northwest Frontier Province... The US military has deployed Special Forces and other soldiers to serve as trainers to the Frontier Corps, the locally raised paramilitary organization that is on the front lines against the Taliban. The deployment of US soldiers in Pakistan has been a controversial issue, and the soldiers are not supposed to conduct military operations alongside the Frontier Corps units. Of course we have Special Forces in Pakistan training their troops, it's a core mission. The last time I was at SOCOM the Commmander announced that as of that morning SOCOM had troops in over 125 countries worldwide. We train all kinds of country's militaries. friends, allies, people we want to make friends with and we even conduct exercises with people we don't like. I've been to over a dozen countries to do just that. Many of them had active insurgencies which is why we were there. Not always to conduct combat operations, but to teach the host nation troops how to, or advise them or whatever. It runs the entire gamut of operations. We always have and we always will, no need for hyperventiliation. Godspeed to the men and condolences to their families.
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Feb 02 2010, 11:56 PM
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