Friday, March 6, 2009

Confidential Report: "Intelligence failures crippling fight against insurgents in Afghanistan"

A National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) confidential report, via the Guardian, here
"...An anonymous source quoted in the report stated that "operational commanders" continued to "indulge in the fallacy of body counts, and a month in which more Taliban are killed than in the previous month" was seen as progress. He added: "This is actually more likely to reflect the fact that there are more enemy on the battlefield than there were before."Perhaps most damning of all, however, is the suggestion from several of those interviewed that often they felt that an overall strategy for what they were supposed to be doing was entirely lacking..."

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