Marine units were finishing sweeps of contested ground, clearing the last stretches of roads of hidden bombs, and reinforcing hastily erected patrol bases and outposts. With it will be a test of the strategy selected by President Obama and the generals now running the Afghan war.Īfter months of preparation for the largest offensive in Afghanistan since 2001, and two weeks of fighting and moving forces around a sprawling desert battlefield, the last pieces of the campaign’s opening push into a Taliban enclave had come together by the weekend.
SEMITAY BAZAAR, Afghanistan - After the declaration this weekend that the battle for the Taliban enclave of Marja had been won, for the Marines standing behind sandbags and walking patrols, the more complicated work has begun.
0 kommentar(er)
