In among the Pentagon plans of sending 3,000 to 5,000 more US ground troops into Afghanistan, they are also looking at getting future unilateral control over US troop levels in the country. Even that isn’t the end of it, as reports today have them redefining the US “advisory” mission to put the troops closer to the front lines.
By way of presenting the 16-year-long US occupation of Afghanistan as something less than it was a decade ago, US officials have presented their deployments as “non-combat” in nature. The US forces are currently deployed to advise at the corps level, keeping them mostly a bit removed from actual combat situations.
That’s about to change, however, with the plans now looking for US “advisors” to be deployed into much smaller troop levels, meaning they’d be right on the front lines with Afghan forces, and fight in the middle of combat situations, despite being nominally “non-combat.”
This tactic has similarly been used in Iraq and Syria, as US troops in both countries are exclusively defined as non-combat, irrespective of the amount of combat they get into. With Afghan forces losing ground by the day in fighting against the Taliban, the Pentagon is increasingly desperate to get direct involvement happening, and in the least public way possible.
Is the war in Afghanistan still a NATO affair?
the N orth A merican T errorist O ganization is still there . I have more respect for the Islamic Jihadist extremists than I do the NWO . The Muslims at least believe in God where as the NWO think they are God . They have been working together to ruin everyone else Once they accomplish that goal they surely will turn against each other .
As if the military-industrial complex was not already too powerful, Trump seems to be ceding more power to them, rather than taking charge over foreign policy himself. Trump doesn’t really seem to have strong underlying knowledge of how the deep state really works, and actually seems to naively think the military exists for defense.