So can anyone now tell me why the US didn't really do anything in Helmand since entering the country in late 2001?
Of course we need more assets as right now it's like trying to fight with all the situational awareness conferred by looking down a drinking straw (and it's not even one of the bendy ones). It isn't like Malaya where you could move the relatively ill-informed villagers into your specially made villages, this is the 21st Century where all the tribal links are supported by mobiles and the internet and although we are a 'force for good', no-one has told the Taliban that...
