Afghanistan Charting the Violence

[tomahawk6]

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/01/afghanistan_charting.php

Afghanistan: Charting the violence in 2007
By Bill Roggio
January 13, 2008 1:37 AM

During 2007, Afghanistan experienced its most violent year since the overthrow of the Taliban regime in early 2002. Suicide attacks, improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, and small-arms attacks reached new heights in 2007. The Taliban, with its sanctuaries in the Northwestern Frontier Province and Baluchistan in Pakistan, have stepped up attacks against the Afghan military and the International Security Assistance Force in an attempt to destabilize the Afghan government and force the Western governments to withdraw.

The southern, southeastern, and eastern regions, all which border Pakistan, experience 73 percent of the Taliban-inspired violence in Afghanistan. Kunar, Kandahar, Khost, Nangarhar, and Paktia provinces, all of which border Pakistan, experience the most Taliban-driven attacks in Afghanistan. Kunar, which borders Pakistan's Bajaur province, an al Qaeda command-and-control hub, is Afghanistan's most dangerous province.

 

[Dog Walker]

"Our guys in the east, under Gen. Rodriguez, are doing a terrific job. They've got the [counterinsurgency] thing down pat," Gates said.

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/01/afghanistan_charting.php

Kunar,………. Khost, Nangarhar, and Paktia provinces, all of which border Pakistan, experience the most Taliban-driven attacks in Afghanistan. Kunar, which borders Pakistan's Bajaur province, an al Qaeda command-and-control hub, is Afghanistan's most dangerous province.

Is the area where the US has the counterinsurgency thing down pat?

 

[tomahawk6]

Kanadahar had the most incidents of any province.

Anti-Government Element incidents.

 

[armyvern]

Is the area where the US has the counterinsurgency thing down pat?

What's one got to do with the other?

Are you insinuating that it wouldn't be EVEN MORE dangerous without the US' counterinsurgency ops occuring there? Your second quote notes that these ARE the MOST dangerous areas. Does saying that infer the US is doing nothing there? How many insurgent attacks have been AVOIDED because of the US' COIN ops in these areas? Possibly hundreds -- you don't know and neither do I; I just know that the US is doing a fine job and I'm willing to respect that.

Saying that they have something downpat does not mean no incidents occur. It means that they handle and deal with the incidents in an appropriate manner ...

 

[pbi]

... in an attempt to destabilize the Afghan government and force the Western governments to withdraw...

So...has either of these results actually been achieved?

Cheers

 

[tomahawk6]

So...has either of these results actually been achieved?

Cheers

They are sure giving it a try. The hotel attack shook alot folks up in Kabul. The taliban also seem to be focusing their attacks on the ANA as well.