JD Johannes' last mission Outside the Wire gives cause for some optimism and thanks for the Spartans of 1-32 Infantry (Chosin!) who chose to live in the town where the Taliban was founded... ...What makes it desperate ground to the Taliban is a mosque the US military recently cleaned up and refurbished: Mullah Omar's old Mosque. Insurgency and counterinsurgency are physical battles with bullets and bombs and battles of perception. It is a competition for, at a minimum, the passive support of the population and hopefully the active cooperation of the population. The people will usually side with the strong horse. If the Taliban totally lose Zahray, if they lose their spiritual homeland, the hit they take in public perception is more damaging than killing hundreds of fighters, which is why they are sending hundreds of fighters against the US Army battalion operating in Mullah Omar's old town... Go read the whole piece. It's worth your valuable time.
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