From The Daily Times:
LAHORE: Allied forces fighting the Taliban have discovered another problem in their fight against the rising insurgency in Afghanistan – that the Taliban have learnt the tactics of modern warfare, political commentator Robert Frisk writes.
“The Taliban are much, much more stood up. They are much tighter, much more professional, much more together,” an intelligence officer in Kabul told the Guardian earlier this year.
For months, military planners in Afghanistan had been preparing themselves for a bloody summer. A number of officers had said significant casualties were inevitable in the traditional fighting season between July and August. The allied forces have become wary of the Taliban’s increasing use of “asymmetric tactics”, such as booby traps, roadside bombs and suicide attacks.
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My Comment: A sobering assessment of what the enemy is developing into. This is for NATO, U.S., and our Afghan allies the worse case scenario in this war.
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