Soldiers from Bravo Company, Special Troops Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, Task Force Gladius wait for a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at the landing zone at Forward Operating Base Morales-Frasier on Jan. 20, 2008. The Chinook will air lift them into the Surobi District of Afghanistan to protect another CH-47 that made a hard landing there. DoD photo by Sgt. Johnny R. Aragon, U.S Army. (Released)From CQ Politics/Spy Talk:
The increasingly bold attacks on NATO supplies in Pakistan should be cause for serious worry, U.S. counterterrorism operatives are saying.
The attacks mean that Islamic extremist fighters in the region are adopting the tactics that their fathers and uncles employed more than a quarter century ago -- with CIA backing - to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.
The objective: to choke off supplies to occupying troops on the ground.
"The bad guys understand our operations and what our lifelines are all about," said an analyst with counterterror experience in the region.
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My Comment: Why change a strategy that has worked before. But the foe is different .... and the Americans have a way of fighting that is different from the Soviets.