Pakistan readies assault on Taliban in Mingora

[ehtasab]

@Khehkeshan

(http://www.cfr.org/publication/12257/)

I just don’t feel anyone in the army in the position of power has read this in depth and is following it. Just so many basic things are not being done. Even at the training and organizational level, to fight COIN, you need a different approach. The colonial era hierarchy, lack of small unit leadership, class divide between jawans/NCO/JCO and officers, too narrow a mission objective and not enough thinking on one’s feet, red tape, bureaucracy all impede a successful COIN op. You need to be a flexible force that can react to any changing situation. Where are the QRF’s to come to the aide of police stations or FC camps under siege? There should be dozens of QRF bases all over NWFP.

I’d give US article about counter-insurgency some credibility if they were successful in Afghanistan, until then its nothing but piece of trash.