Synopses & Reviews
If U.S. military personnel still plan to win in Afghanistan, they better take a hard look at this book. It's different from the others. After finding the holes in U.S. strategy, it provides the tactical techniques (like football plays and stunts) to plug them. Unhindered by political correctness, this author has the perfect background for some helpful advice. That advice first takes the form of intelligence from regional media and its strategic implications. U.S. war planners have yet to fully appreciate the power of the Taliban's grassroots approach. To substantially counter it, they must allow the dispersal of U.S. troops into every town/neighborhood along Afghanistan's 14 entrance highways. For, it is along those highways that the Taliban has been smuggling its wherewithal in and drugs out. This has not been readily apparent, because the reinforcements have been traveling in pairs, the ordnance resupply in pieces, and the drugs in secret trucking compartments. This author is totally familiar with the Asians' bottom-up way of fighting and a recognized authority on squad tactics. Having traveled extensively in both Islamist and Communist worlds, he is no stranger to their mutually anti-Western agenda.
Synopsis
Expeditionary Eagles: Outmaneuvering the Taliban is an exciting read about events as current as June 2010 in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A longtime stdent of the Eastern mindset and small-unit tactics, its author has the perfect background for some helpful advice on how quickly to win the war. That advice takes the form of an intelligence and tactical-technique supplement. U.S. planners have yet to realize the power of the Taliban's grassroots approach. To do anything about it, they will have to disperse their forces to joint outposts in all towns/neighborhoods along Afghanistan's major highways. For, it is along those highways that the Taliban's wherewithal is being smuggled in, and fund-raising drugs smuggled out. That means allowing lone U.S. squads to operate outside of any artillery or airstrike umbrella. To now win with only one year to go, fully protecting the troops must give way to fully utilizing the troops. Without final victory, all losses will have been in vain.