A top U.S. military official has expressed confidence that his country will defeat the Taliban in the Afghan war in the wake of doubts mounting over the success of counterinsurgency policy pursued by the army.
October 10, 2011 - Kabul
A top U.S. military official has expressed confidence that his country will defeat the Taliban in the Afghan war in the wake of doubts mounting over the success of counterinsurgency policy pursued by the army.
The U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Center's Director Colonel John Paganini admitted that gauging the success of counterinsurgency is a complex procedure as there is no specific end date of the policy, though officials are aware that war resources are limited.
Paganini admitted that though the Taliban still targets the Afghan leaders, the conditions are getting "much better" for integrating the population, ABC News reports.
"They are passionate about their area, their province, their district, and this sense of nationalism that's growing; there's a lot of them. The ones that don't step forward, it's not because they're selfish or complacent or don't care", he said.
Paganini said the army's strategy has changed since the beginning of the war as it has shifted its focus from targeting the enemy to building sustainable, long-lasting programmes involving Afghans at the grassroot level during the past three years.
"We are becoming adaptive to overcome the insurgency not just those who are out to kill us or apply military force against us, or the protectors of the society of the host nation, but it really also gets after, 'Why does the insurgency exist? What are the conditions that allow the population to either passively or actively support an external entity that wants to degrade the ability of the host nation government's security force?" he said
He said though the army has significantly changed "the idea in the minds of the Afghan citizenry and the Afghan leaders that this is an external problem with external solutions", the process would take generations to get completed.
He stressed the need to end the Taliban's tactic of intimidating Afghans, which prevents the citizens from co- operating with their country's government.
ANI
Source: http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2011/US-military-confident-Afghan-war-win-16948.htm
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