Also from what I've heard America's strategy in Afghanistan was to train a small collection of highly skilled psychopathic "operators". The Hell of a Way to Die guy said this had been the case for a while, that they were using mostly these operator dudes, and it made building any sort of local relationships impossible as they are essentially terror squads. I imagine that these sort of compact units are great if you want to assassinate a few people, but awful at stopping an advancing army.
like you say, you lose the heart and minds war with this kind of shit, and then the civilian population all go over to the opposition who are fighting the invaders backing these mass murdering death squads. what's hilarious and pathetic is ofc.... this same shit happened in Vietnam 50 years ago. they lost the same war the same way, twice
Also from what I've heard America's strategy in Afghanistan was to train a small collection of highly skilled psychopathic "operators". The Hell of a Way to Die guy said this had been the case for a while, that they were using mostly these operator dudes, and it made building any sort of local relationships impossible as they are essentially terror squads. I imagine that these sort of compact units are great if you want to assassinate a few people, but awful at stopping an advancing army.
like you say, you lose the heart and minds war with this kind of shit, and then the civilian population all go over to the opposition who are fighting the invaders backing these mass murdering death squads. what's hilarious and pathetic is ofc.... this same shit happened in Vietnam 50 years ago. they lost the same war the same way, twice
HOAWTD is a really good podcast too