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Pentagon report reveals confusion among U.S. troops over Afghan mission
Source: Reuters
World | Mon May 9, 2016 2:11am EDT
Pentagon report reveals confusion among U.S. troops over Afghan mission
KABUL | BY JOSH SMITH
Amid fierce fighting after the Taliban captured the northern Afghan city of Kunduz last year, U.S. special forces advisers repeatedly asked their commanders how far they were allowed to go to help local troops retake the city.
They got no answer, according to witnesses interviewed in a recently declassified, heavily redacted Pentagon report that lays bare the confusion over rules of engagement governing the mission in Afghanistan.
As the Taliban insurgency gathers strength, avoiding enemy fire has become increasingly difficult for advisers, who have been acting as consultants rather than combatants since NATO forces formally ceased fighting at the end of 2014.
In the heat of the battle, lines can be blurred, and the problem is not exclusive to Afghanistan: questions have arisen over the role of U.S. troops in Iraq after a U.S. Navy SEAL was killed by Islamic State this month.
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Pentagon report reveals confusion among U.S. troops over Afghan mission
KABUL | BY JOSH SMITH
Amid fierce fighting after the Taliban captured the northern Afghan city of Kunduz last year, U.S. special forces advisers repeatedly asked their commanders how far they were allowed to go to help local troops retake the city.
They got no answer, according to witnesses interviewed in a recently declassified, heavily redacted Pentagon report that lays bare the confusion over rules of engagement governing the mission in Afghanistan.
As the Taliban insurgency gathers strength, avoiding enemy fire has become increasingly difficult for advisers, who have been acting as consultants rather than combatants since NATO forces formally ceased fighting at the end of 2014.
In the heat of the battle, lines can be blurred, and the problem is not exclusive to Afghanistan: questions have arisen over the role of U.S. troops in Iraq after a U.S. Navy SEAL was killed by Islamic State this month.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-military-idUSKCN0Y00G0
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Eugene
May 2016
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jtuck004
(15,882 posts)1. Well, we have this war machine, see, and it has to be working or it costs us money, see? So it
sends our children, brothers and sisters, friends off to be killed.
For no reason, you say? It keeps the machine running, doesn't it? How can anyone ask what is required? Just keep the machine running...
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)2. US out of Afghanistan now
US out of FUCKING Afghanistan
bemildred
(90,061 posts)3. Your mission is to stay there and not admit defeat.
Does that clear it up?
turbinetree
(24,710 posts)4. The hidden Custer Last Stand--------------------------
or the infamous arrogance of going into the sacred lands of the Indigenous Peoples and learning that the fight was more then one planned-----------------the American experience has always been laid out that this country always has a plan, even if if it means supporting a liar(s) program from 2001 to save face----------------------- even today as we speak and hear
Honk-----------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
Javaman
(62,532 posts)5. we are to keep getting killed there so that the ones before, who were killed, didn't die in vein.
all clear now?