But I thought trump was the good guy for the American people...

/s

Pretty sure with the recent new hires in the MSM that won't be happening..

Oh look a school shooting

I'm from England and I live right next to the RAF base where our fallen soldiers get repatriated. It's a very public event that people attend all the way on the travel to the JR hospital (I believe!)

“It is basically casualty, force strength, equipment, operational readiness, attrition figures, as well as performance assessments,”

As a former US Marine who has served my country and deployed to Afghanistan while also having friends currently deployed in war zones - I'm relieved our President has finally decided to stop being so transparent on the movements and actions of our forward operators.

Explain your reasoning for wanting those listed above to be public knowledge for the enemy leadership to get intel reports on daily. This should be good.

The other thing that's fucked is their objective in Afghanistan is literally to just kill terrorists. Although our actions there only creates more terrorists.

I love people that try to argue our foriegn policy doesn't create more terrorism, then I point them to the 9/11 commission report that clearly says 9/11 was blow back for our foreign interventionism.

It is, and TPTB love it. The one thing that I do like about Trump, is he's a perfect representation of what's been going on for decades. Yes he's loud, racist, superficial, unapologetic, and cold blooded, but so is our foreign and domestic policies.

The point of this is to not let the enemy know what we are doing. With so much transparency, our tactics, motives, and moves give our adversaries clues as to our game plan.

The point of this is to not let the enemy know what we are doing.

He explained it already.

Giving the enemy casualty numbers and attrition reports does more damage to our forward ops than you realize obviously.

I support people in the military

Then you wouldn't want their movements and numbers to be made public. Period. You can't say you respect the service men deployed in war zones while at the same time demanding that dangerous intel on their activities be made public. Madness.

No..the madness is you being unable to question why we are still pursuing a completely failed policy regarding the middle east...and it doesn't give you the right to hold yourself or your friends hostage when discussing this.

Appears you can't follow a simple conversation. I'm discussing the dissemination of tactical intel of our ground troops who are already deployed and my desire for that intel to be better controlled to limit the chance that this intel gets some of our Patriots killed overseas.

But keep running your suck about some overreaching point (that we apparently agree on by the way) about why we are out there to begin with. Different discussion, not at all what we were talking about and you know it. Weak attempt to steer the conversation away from where you make ZERO SENSE, into a place you are more comfortable.

Regardless - anyone who thinks making "casualty, force strength, equipment, operational readiness, attrition figures, as well as performance assessment" public knowledge in real-time while engaged in combat activities is a moron and has zero understanding and experience in anything tactical.

It's madness to suggest otherwise, atleast from a Patriotic US citizen's point of view, not sure where you're sitting.

I'm ready for your off-topic reply distracting from the point here.

You never once even discussed any of the points I made, and now you find the most childish reason to run away.

We're done??? I don't think you ever actually started 'talking with me' you just exploded into each post with bullet points you obviously have little understanding of. This is not how conversations go, but I'm glad you pulled the rip-chord here to avoid learning anything.

That's just wishful thinking on my part bud. I'm trying to explain to you why giving out details about troop movement/welfare will get those "people you claim to support" killed real fast.

You keep talking about anything but that, including starting the ad hominem attacks about me being a gov't shill.

Thought you were done. No control it seems, I'll help and just stop replying to your pointless off topic and insulting posts.

Elgin AFB Analyst#46- signing off.

I deployed to Afghanistan twice and I still didn't have any idea what was going on.

A lot of us feel that way brother.

Did you grow us up some profitable opium? Help the afganis bang their underage prostitutes?

No.

Did you hear about the opium grows or see them? Anything juicy for us?

I've been out since 2011. During my first deployment, the U.S. policy was the destruction of opium fields. Most Afghans I met absolutely fucking hated the US. for it.

During my second deployment the U.S. had switched to just leaving the fields alone, which I honestly think was the right move. If the objective was to win hearts and minds, setting crops on fire that provide for the livelihood of a huge chunk of the population isn't getting you anywhere. And yeah, I know how awful the opium trade is - but dealing with poppy fields should be left to the ANP or ANA instead of foreign troops.

Cool, thanks for the info. I agree with you about troops and opium. What a weird situation over there.

You guys are being tricked into serving the interests of elite bankers. I really can't wait for the day that US military members start decapitating congressman. They hamstring you with ROEs. They lie to you about WMDs. They pay you shit. When one of you finally snaps, they put you in a cage. All the while partying, sleeping, eating well, fine company. While you suffer.

It's coming. Because eventually people catch on.

The pay is pretty reasonable, for the record. I've been out since 2011, so hopefully I won't feel the need to murder any congresspeople anytime soon.

Compared to private contractors?

Trying to be a dick for no reason is pretty lame, dude.

Not really being a dick. Pointing out that our servicemen are get fucked.

There’s evidence we’re using the army to secure poppy fields for larger scale opium production. It wouldn’t shock me if that’s why we are moving more troops there again.

http://www.cryptogon.com/wp-content/themes/andreas-08-ver-10/images/header.jpg

Trading equipment, what, like garden hoses and poppy fertilizer in exchange for M16 and MRE's?

Did Trump re-open the Afganistan "war" in his state of the union speech?

Who cares how the military is operating. That's small potatoes next to the CIA and civilian contractors.

Getting assets closer to iran

Baghdad is closer to Teheran than Kabul is to Teheran...

Currently, how can someone confirm with citations how many bases we have?

This seems related:

https://np.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/7ujaj1/damning_new_study_helps_explain_why_pentagon_will/