From the JBS Editor: "While many people point to the near term failure of the haplessly incompetant and sychophanic General Milley and Lloyd "lets be racist to end racism" Austin, we must not forget that the seeds of defeat that we saw yesterday were planted much earlier, and many of those by the fetid hand of General McCrystal. Michael Yon has always noted that the US presence in Afghanistan was never focused on the right way to achieve the objectives stated in public. For that he was ostricized, but never waivered from speaking the truth as he saw it. Now the truth he wrote about has come true.:
From the archives, a guest column by David Brown:
"In 2009, at the direction of President Obama, General Stanley McChrystal launched an assessment of the campaign in Afghanistan, and recommended a troop surge and counterinsurgency strategy to reverse deterioration in the region. Three years prior, with the world's attention focused on Iraq, Michael Yon was one of the first correspondents to report the tide in Afghanistan shifting to the Taliban's favor. As he described it, the country had devolved into a "consummate narco-state" and "a hunting lodge for our special operations forces." He added, "Since the Afghan campaign has been largely a special forces war from the beginning, we have been able to transition with great secrecy from near victory, to abysmal performance, to what has now become a sustainable human-hunting resort."
Read the full version here.
https://www.michaelyon-online.com/michael-yon-s-war.htm
