sorry but you are mistaken here. i said many times before. the coalition have enough fire power and men. pakistan is experienced and always needed. but the role and the message here is a political one.
The UAE doesn't seem to think so. Judging by their statements, the political message apparently wasn't enough, we're to face consequences unless we comply.
Do you know how many trained and active military personnel are needed fight an insurgency? You can't wage war with aerial campaigns alone. And once you have men deployed you need to have/maintain a certain ratio of your troops compared to estimates of the number of local insurgents. And some very high rations are needed if you plan on winning.
Do you know how long and how many men need to be deployed to fight off this particular insurgency? How many reserves will you have? How many deployed will you have, how many of those deployed will have fighting roles? How many will be there for logistics, planning, medics, management?
Take the example of the British in Helmand. I can't remember the exact number of men we had for this region, but the British were horribly undermanned. The patrols were so few and so ineffective, insurgents slowly came in control of anywhere that wasn't patrolled, and some places that were patrolled were contested. The British and American combat doctrines for where they were undermanned were very defensive and conservative. They did not contest control, they stayed in large highly secure bases, outposts, forward op bases were manned only temporarily. The shortage of man power and defensive doctrine meant that the Taliban easily gained uncontested control in areas. A large percentage of the British troops there had many roles that most people forget, only a fraction were sent out to patrol and fight if need be, they did not leave their base looking to get body counts of insurgents.
So how will the GCC with it's small active armies, wage a war against insurgents, deploy their troops for months if not years? And somehow successfully wage war? All while being inexperienced in this sort of thing.
You can see now why I'm being so critical of your view.
my words were very clear.
again NOTHING will go in or out. iraq had an open border with iran. iran let all ppl in incluiding alqaeda from afghanistan. its official.
anyway lets agree to disagree. but in shaa Allah il come back soon and il tell you i told you so.
just give it some time and you will see for yourself.
16 days is nothing in war time.
16 days is nothing. Even a year is nothing. Sectarian conflicts take much longer.
. Anyway, Pakistan has the right to agree or refuse sending it's troop to any country, but Pakistani PMs made it clear that any violation of Saudi sovereignty will drag strong reaction from Pakistan. Nonetheless, we don't need Pakistan at all. It's contribution is a plus of course but not desperately needed. It's the same as when the USA asks other countries contribution in it's wars around the globe.
