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Re: Tuesday, November 7, 2001
There are a ton of bad/false assumptions that Maj. General Kareem makes. I'll highlight one out of the pullquote. For the moment, I think, the Americans are just trying to scare the Taliban. Nonsense, of course. The statement is disingenuous, and the strategy easily discerned from openly accessible US doctrines. The bombing/missle attacks first took out anti-air assets, then moved to their present stage of fixing the enemy in position by destroying their mobile fighting capacity (tanks, trucks, personnel carriers, etc) and forcing them into bunkered positions. Once fixed in position, you have a lot of choices in how you want to deal with them. There was much press given over the last few days to the "daisy cutter" or FAE bomb that could be dropped into cave mouths to destroy fortified positions. But that's just one option; once you've got them "stuck in the bunkers" without transport, you can wait for them to get hungry or run out of ammo. Old military aphorism: "Amateurs think about strategy, professionals think about logistics." There are a lot of journalists thinking like amateurs. There are responses to this message:
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