The U.S. COA in Afghanistan as never clearly defined. Just fluffy “nation building” with no foundation. Hence, twenty plus unproductive years spent wasting people, treasure, and elsewhere opportunities. Yemen COULD be a straight two week in and out if we let warriors make and execute the plan. Otherwise, you would be entirely correct and I would be responsible for another twenty years of body bags.
". A Ranger company should be able to eliminate Yemen as a point of future attacks fairly easily"
Just like they eliminated Afghanistan as a point of future attacks, eh?
The U.S. COA in Afghanistan as never clearly defined. Just fluffy “nation building” with no foundation. Hence, twenty plus unproductive years spent wasting people, treasure, and elsewhere opportunities. Yemen COULD be a straight two week in and out if we let warriors make and execute the plan. Otherwise, you would be entirely correct and I would be responsible for another twenty years of body bags.
As the same types of policy people appear to be in charge, I'd expect your last sentence to come to fruition again.
It's always the same types of policy people, left or right. Strategerists gotta strategerize, pundits gotta pun.........