By Linda Robinson
100 Victories is a portrait of how—after a decade of extensive strive against operations—special operations forces became the go-to strength for US army endeavors worldwide.
Linda Robinson follows the evolution of unique ops in Afghanistan, their longest deployment on account that Vietnam. She has lived in mud-walled compounds within the mountains and deserts of insurgent-dominated areas, and makes use of these reviews to teach the gritty fact of the demanding situations the SOF face and the consistent probability during which they operate.
She witnessed targeted operators befriending villagers to aid them safe their houses, and scuffling with off insurgents within the most deadly secure havens while they navigated a relentless sequence of conflicts, crises, and different “meteors" from traditional forces, the CIA, and the Pakistanis—not to say susceptible hyperlinks inside of their very own ranks. They confirmed what a tiny band of warriors might do, and will no longer do, out at the wild frontiers of the next-generation wars.
One Hundred Victories additionally contains the interior tale of the dramatic November 2011 cross-border firefight with Pakistan, which despatched the USA commander right into a fury and provoked a world difficulty. It describes the murky global of armed factions working alongside the world's longest disputed border, and the chaos and casualties that end result whilst commanders with competing agendas can't get to the bottom of their adjustments.
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They paid him visits at Fort Bragg and stayed in touch by phone. Shirzai sought his advice as Karzai dangled offers of cabinet positions to dissuade him from running for president in 2004. In the end, the clever Karzai managed to keep the wheeler-dealer Shirzai out of the race and then left him in his post at nangahar. From his first tours in 2002 and 2003, Reeder and his men had been heavily engaged in targeting taliban. Although the senior taliban and Al Qaeda leaders had left for Pakistan, a lot of local taliban remained.
They were a very effective force because they were local,” Reeder said. ” After Reeder decided to cross-load Afghan and special forces personnel in each other’s vehicles, the ambushes stopped. “the locals did not want to kill a local guy,” he noted. When Reeder returned as the commander of the CJSOtF-A in 2006, his troops still focused on targeting taliban insurgents, but they also assumed more training and advisory missions. they were partnered with thirteen Afghan army battalions, called kandaks.
His ties no doubt helped the united States understand the machinations going on at any given moment within Afghanistan, but a lot of Afghan skullduggery was overlooked in the name of friendship, leaving open the question of whether more tough love would have reined in some of the corruption. As the massive flow of uS funds ratcheted up the corruption to new heights, the coalition formed a task force aimed at peeling apart the web of money and influence in order to stop malfeasance and worse. Contract procedures were tightened, but very few insiders went to jail.