EyelessInGaza
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The strategy seems to be to first take the mountain tops on both sides, then advance down simultaneously from both sides toward the deep valley. Attack from above.
Slightly Off topic: Comparisons are odious and I have very little knowledge about Tirah. But the moment I first read about the fighting at Tirah, with it's high mountains, valleys, an entrenched enemy holding the peaks, and a logistics base extending into a neighbouring country, I thought - 'mini Kargil' ops. Perhaps the military solutions will also need to be similar, it would be interesting to see.
More On topic: If the strategy is to take the mountain tops, how are they going about it? It seems to me that they'll have to either go up the closest mountain first, from a number of directions of possible, and then the next mountain and so on. Or helicopter in troops near the summits (I do not have a military background this does not sound too feasible even as I write it)? Or a combination of the two?