U.S. using old and risky strategy « My Bloggity Blog

Wrong. The problem with the United States Military is not our strength of arms, but our humanity. I am sure there are some readers who are ready to pounce on me for saying that. They will site the millions of tons of munitions we have dumped on Afghanistan, and the countless dead and wounded in the local population. Point taken. But, the problem with an insurgency war is the fact that the insurgents are re-supplied with troops by the general population. As a result, we have to re-supply troops to the field endlessly to counteract the enemy build up. General Grant sent General Sherman on “The March to the sea” to employ the strategy of destroying the economic infrastructure of the Confederacy, and therefore cripple the re-supply of the Confederate army. Sherman, scorched the earth during the march, burning everything in his path. The strategy was successful. However, in this era, re-supply only depends on the ability to trade with non combatant arms dealers, using money acquired from any means, including poppy sales. Therefore, the only supply for which an insurgent army is vulnerable, is troops. There are two ways to disrupt an insurgent troop supply; 1) Kill all the civilians and anyone who comes to their aid. 2) Move in large populations of your people to stay, take all the good land and riches, and interbreed like mad with the civilian population, like Roman Legionaries. The next generation will be Americans in the state of Afghanistan. Basically make Afghanistan the 51 state. It does not mean we wouldn’t have to kill a large part of the Afghani population, but overwhelming a population with your own people is a strategy successfully used by China in Tibet and Xinjiang. The United States does not have the stomach to do any of this. In fact, the British Empire fell due to their conflicts with humanity on these issues. However, it may be assumed from history that the Nazis would have been successful at employing said strategies, since they had no problem with genocide. We are not Nazis, not yet at least, thank whatever god(s) you believe in. Yet as for now, our boots on the ground are a waist of soldiers lives and our countries treasure. The only way we can deal with the war in Afghanistan is to find enough Afghanis’ who would be willing to be our proxy army, and keep the peace for a bigger piece of the local pie. The idea being that you get them to fight each other and stay off our backs. In addition to or failing this, we can only harden the target of the United States against attack, here on our own shores. Hardening the US target, means getting off the foreign oil tit, and producing all our own energy from clean renewable resources. Once we have done that, we can largely ignore the Islamic world. The big “what if” in all this is nuclear weapons, and insane religious nuts who would use them against us. At that point we have to use any and all means to be sure such nuclear weapons do not fall into their hands, regardless of how brutal we must get, with all options on the table, including nuclear. It sucks, but as Sherman said, ‘War is Hell.”

Nice to read a well thought out post for a change. I couldn't agree more!