Friday, October 22, 2010
Are Tech & Intel Turning the Tide in Afghanistan?
Fred Kaplan, SlateTroops in AfghanistanU.S. and Afghan forces are "routing the Taliban in much of Kandahar Province," according to a front-page story by Carlotta Gall in today's New York Times"”in large part the result, Gall reports, of "a new mobile rocket that has pinpoint accuracy."The rocket has destroyed insurgents' hideouts, killed their commanders, and driven many survivors to throw down their arms, abandon their positions, or in some cases retreat to Pakistan.But the accurate rockets are only a part of the story. More important are the huge advances in...
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