Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Scream and Leap Tactics

In one sense, we are lucky that the Taliban rounds up ignorant hillsmen in Pakistan, pays them what is a fortune in their part of the world, and then marches them into Afghanistan to fight the Coalition.

These ill-trained fanatics aren't good at actual insurgency. They mass and then get slaughtered:

Two battles killed more than 165 Taliban fighters and a U.S.-led coalition soldier in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday [.]


Actual Afghan insurgents did a far better job when they fought the Soviet invaders. But today's Taliban cannon fodder are not locals, and so perhaps they fit the trend of yet another invading force getting whacked by the locals (with an assist from Mr. JDAM, of course).