The Last War

By Jamie McIntyre Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 1:18 pm
Posted in Video Archive

Given the renewed discussion of Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s now public counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, I am bring back this video I produced a few months ago pointing out the lessons learned from the Soviet defeat in the 1980s.

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CharlesHouston September 22nd, 2009 at 8:05 pm

Insurgency is a contest where the logistics of both sides are relatively immune to attack. In Vietnam and the Soviet-Afghan wars, the logistics of both sides were invulnerable. We supplied the Afghans with all they needed to fight the Soviets.

Where are the logistics of the Taliban/Al Quaida coming from? Can we interdict it? That is the key question. An insurgency without ammunition is called a failure.

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