"US paratroopers in Afghanistan hope to give Taliban ..." Topic

…a few final blows.

"It was a homecoming of sorts for Lt. Col. Paul Larson, returning to this remote corner of southern Afghanistan at the twilight of America's longest war. He was back to take stock of a slice of the battlefield that seemed brimming with possibility when he last led soldiers here a decade ago.

In 2005, Larson was zealous about counterinsurgency, convinced that irrigation projects, agrarian reform initiatives and new schools would plant the seeds of peace, rendering this impoverished, barren area inhospitable to an insurgency that appeared on the brink of defeat.

As he flew to his former outpost late last month, commanding the last U.S. battalion conducting full-spectrum combat operations in Afghanistan, Larson's mission was narrower, less ambitious and without altruistic impulses…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Good luck to my brother Infantrymen … hope they kill alot of bad guys and loose no more US/NATO Troops …

Learnt his lessons apparently, help the enemy to better themselves indeed, guess he has the scars on his fingers from all that 'hand that feeds' rubbish.