3/5 Afghanistan

 

Bing West files a report from his time embedded with Third Platoon of Kilo Company, Fifth Marine Regiment, in Sangin. His March dispatch adds another anecdote about the issue I raised in January: that the US Marines seem more aggressive than their predecessors in the volatile district, and Helmand province as a whole, and the Taliban react to this difference accordingly [emphasis mine]:

Read more: http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2011/04/bing_west_on_marine_tactics_in.php#ixzz1JVlieQnf

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