Words begat actions which create history
people know there are dictionaries, right?
Have you been less than pleased by the squishy use of words the last few months by our senior leadership when it comes to what we all saw transpire in Afghanistan?
Well, it has been a burr in my saddle for months.
At today's House Armed Services Committee meeting on Afghanistan, I just had about enough.
Come on over to USNIBlog where I whip out the dictionary and a little family history on the topic.
Harsh medicine, but the truth can be like that sometimes. Keep up the great work, Sal.
As Sal points out, a movement of troops so put them out of contact with an enemy can be defined many different ways. The key to those differences is the degree of control with which that movement is conducted and the overall materiel condition of the enemy at the end of the maneuver. In the case of Afghanistan, like Vietnam, the enemy defined all of the variables that the White House and JCS didn’t simply hand over, literally lock, stock, and barrel. The Taliban won. They know it. The rest of the world knows it. Only inside the tent called “official Washington” can a different answer be found.