The ongoing adventures of a boy who never grew out of making and playing with plastic model kits (and even some metal ones too). Also a wargamer in search of the perfect set of wargaming rules for WWII Land and 20th Century Naval campaigns.
Saturday 2 June 2018
Lessons Learned and more importantly Not Learned from the Afghanistan Experience
Exactly Even Alexander the Great was happy to come away with a score draw It swallows up "peoples" who travel that far and who try to impose their kind of civilisation
p 191: "Under immense pressure to quickly stabilize insecure districts, (Insert colonial power name of choice) government agencies spent far too much money, far too quickly, and in a country woefully unprepared to absorb it. Money spent was often the metric of success. As a result, programming often exacerbated conflicts, enabled corruption, and bolstered support for insurgents."
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I imagine the conclusions are...if you're going to fight a land war in Asia, get someone else to do it?
Exactly
Even Alexander the Great was happy to come away with a score draw
It swallows up "peoples" who travel that far and who try to impose their kind of civilisation
p 191: "Under immense pressure
to quickly stabilize insecure districts, (Insert colonial power name of choice) government agencies spent far too
much money, far too quickly, and in a country woefully unprepared to absorb
it. Money spent was often the metric of success. As a result, programming often
exacerbated conflicts, enabled corruption, and bolstered support for insurgents."
Who would have thought it?
Regards, Chris.
You would laugh but the tears come first Chris!
For the poor bloody people who were sent there and for the poor bloody people who lived there!
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