Afghanistan…more drones are coming.
Today’s paper had a picture of the new unmanned aircrafts that will soon be flying over Afghanistan…These new drones will not only be deployed to fly over Afghanistan and the Pakistan border region…but as the paper noted…The President will ask Pakistan permission to not only fly them not only over the border region, but well into the interior of the country. This will prevent the al-Qaida and Taliben leaders from moving away from the border to escape these planes. As the war progresses, these new drones will be the critical factor in reversing the Talibans gain in the country. If our country can increase the number of drones by five fold within the next 18 months they will inflict huge losses on al-Qaida in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. In a later post I’ll note some of the new inovations that these new planes will have and if possible, I’ll recount some of the successes.
We can’t win the war with drones, but we can inflict enough damage on al-Qaida and the Taliban to prevent them from ever becoming a threat to the U. S…and we can bring our troops home. If we will forget trying to control the entire country and only render the enemy inpotent, we will have won the war.
