EAGLE FUEL - A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft assigned to the 391st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron out of Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, takes on fuel from a KC-10 Extender aircraft during a combat patrol over Afghanistan Dec. 11, 2008. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron AllmonFrom The Strategy Page:
The Taliban thought they had a decisive weapon when they adopted large scale use of roadside and suicide bombing three years ago. This effort was a bitter disappointment. Four years ago, there were only a few hundred roadside or suicide bomb attacks in Afghanistan annually, and these had no major effect on the fighting. This year, there have been nearly 2,500 such attacks, over 80 percent of them roadside bombs. But about two-thirds of those roadside bombs were spotted and disabled before they could go off. The U.S. and British troops had transferred their Iraq counter-IED (Improvised Explosive Device, or roadside bomb) techniques and technology to Afghanistan.
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My Comment: The American Army reminds the Taliban of the Mongols .... an interesting observation that when one thinks about it .... one realizes that there is some truth to it.