Afghanistan

[Quintus Fabius]

Und umgekehrt in einer einzigen anekdotischen Evidenz die Erklärung warum wir verloren haben und die Erläuterung wie wir hätten gewinnen können (mit viel weniger Aufwand und viel weniger Geld):

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jim-gant-...d=24266710

Hab mal den Kern des ganzen rauskopiert:

The more successful Gant was at fighting unconventionally, the more he became a threat not only to the Taliban and al Qaeda but to a military bureaucracy on the defensive by February 2012.

Some thought Gant was going "too native" and whispered that he was becoming a "Colonel Kurtz," a reference to the fictional Green Beret in the Vietnam War classic "Apocalypse Now," who is marked for death by the command when he goes native and then goes insane.

"I think he wanted to start some inter-tribal war over in Pakistan, that's where you get the Colonel Kurtz nickname. It might have been a good idea, but we didn't have those authorities," said an officer who served with Gant. Gant admits he had made such a proposition at one point as part of a larger plan.

The arrival in early 2012 of Army 1st Lt. Thomas Roberts, a by-the-book officer fresh out of West Point, sealed Gant's fate just as he was pulling out of Mangwel and moving to a new qalat in nearby Chowkay where he'd made significant inroads with the Safi tribe. The officer said he also resented Gant's disdain for Army rules and proper paperwork.

On March 11, 2012, Roberts filed a sworn statement accusing Gant of "immoral and illegal activities and actions," and declared that he suspected the hard-charging operator was often "intoxicated and under the influence of pain medications."

But Gant had just hiked 2,500 feet up and over a mountain to capture alive the Taliban commander of Wardak province. He admits he was "self-medicating" afterward because of his age, then 44, and old combat injuries. He was wounded seven times in his career -- but always declined a Purple Heart Medal.

After beating back five harrowing Taliban attacks in broad daylight on his compound in Chowkay in the days leading up to the showdown with his own commanders -- all videotaped by Tyson and provided to ABC News -- Gant was flown away by a Special Forces team from Kunar.

Gant was ordered to shave off his long beard and put on a uniform -- while under armed guard -- as the Army launched an investigation and threatened a court-martial.

The local Afghans in Kunar -- who had fought so bravely alongside their new American brothers -- were enraged and upset, and a contingent of Pashtun elders traveled to Asadabad to protest to U.S. and Afghan government officials the removal of their beloved "Commander Jim."

He was brought back to Fort Bragg, N.C., where his Green Beret status was taken away and he was busted to captain even though he'd made the promotion list for lieutenant colonel. He accepted a career-killing reprimand, obtained by ABC News, from Lt. Gen. John Mulholland, who called Gant a "disgrace" absent of "moral character."

"While fully acknowledging your record of honorable and valorous service to the Regiment, our Army and our country, the simple truth is that your subsequent conduct was inexcusable and brought disrepute and shame to the Special Forces Regiment and Army Special Operations," says the letter of reprimand signed by Mulholland, Deputy Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command.

"In short, your actions disgraced you as an officer and seriously compromised your character as a gentleman."

Wer glaubt einen Krieg in Afghanistan mit Papierkram, "Armee"regularien - also Bürkratischen Regeln und einem Charakter als Gentlemen führen und gewinnen zu können, der hat von Kriegsführung so keine Ahnung, dass es unverständlich ist warum man so jemandem Geld dafür gibt die eigene Sicherheit zu gewährleisten.

https://warontherocks.com/2014/04/the-ri...-jim-gant/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/afghanist..._n_5008520

Krieg ist im Prinzip die forcierte Erzeugung von mehr Entropie. Gerade deshalb ist bereits die Strategie nur ein System von Aushilfen und kann aufgrund der systeminhärent ständig steigenden Entropie auch gar nichts anderes sein. Deshalb können im Krieg allgemeine Lehrsätze, aus ihnen abgeleitete Regeln und auf diesen aufgebaute Systeme niemals irgendeinen einen praktischen Wert haben. Naturgemäß läuft genau dies bestimmten psychologischen Charaktertypen - welche in Friedenszeiten Armeen als hierarchische Bürokratien zunehmend dominieren völlig zuwieder und entgegen. Aus diesem Komplex heraus erklärt sich meiner Ansicht nach die Niederlage gegen die Taliban, welche nicht hätte sein müssen!