TX Hammes over at Small Wars Journal weighs in - he reminds us that “Good tactics and more troops are not a substitute for a strategy – and in fact can significantly raise the cost of a bad strategy.” He makes the astutue point that “without ever expressing a change in our strategic goals, the effort in Afghanistan slipped from destroying Al Qaeda to establishing a unified Afghan state.” Cue: Ashdown’s dismay over our ambitious and insane objectives.
The piece is worth a careful read.
PSW
