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Mentoring pays off as Afghan forces hit insurgents
On top of a bedsheet-covered table in a guarded compound in central Kandahar lies a city map.
Sheathed in plastic, it has been scribbled over with erasable markers to divide the city into boxes, coloured according to their ripeness for police raids.
Blue is for those that have already yielded rich caches of weapons – raw explosives, AK-47s, suicide vests, rocket launchers, grenades – as well as dozens of insurgents themselves. Areas outlined in red represent even more glowing prospects: known Taliban hideouts that soldiers and police officers have their eye on, biding their time before they attack.
For a high-level coalition of U.S. and Canadian troops given the task of rebuilding Afghanistan's security forces, the map represents something more than an impending blow to the urban insurgency. It is a long overdue sign that years of mentoring senior Afghan officers is starting to pay off.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090506.wafghan06/BNStory/International/?cid=al_gam_nletter_newsUp
The 27 Articles of T.E. Lawrence
T.E. Lawrence
The Arab Bulletin,
20 August 1917
15. Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably
than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for
them. Actually, also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work
will not be as good as, perhaps, you think it is.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IAV/is_6_96/ai_n24958260/
Mentoring pays off as Afghan forces hit insurgents
On top of a bedsheet-covered table in a guarded compound in central Kandahar lies a city map.
Sheathed in plastic, it has been scribbled over with erasable markers to divide the city into boxes, coloured according to their ripeness for police raids.
Blue is for those that have already yielded rich caches of weapons – raw explosives, AK-47s, suicide vests, rocket launchers, grenades – as well as dozens of insurgents themselves. Areas outlined in red represent even more glowing prospects: known Taliban hideouts that soldiers and police officers have their eye on, biding their time before they attack.
For a high-level coalition of U.S. and Canadian troops given the task of rebuilding Afghanistan's security forces, the map represents something more than an impending blow to the urban insurgency. It is a long overdue sign that years of mentoring senior Afghan officers is starting to pay off.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090506.wafghan06/BNStory/International/?cid=al_gam_nletter_newsUp
The 27 Articles of T.E. Lawrence
T.E. Lawrence
The Arab Bulletin,
20 August 1917
15. Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably
than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for
them. Actually, also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work
will not be as good as, perhaps, you think it is.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0IAV/is_6_96/ai_n24958260/
