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What in the world are you talking about? You can’t just make up claims because they sound right and affirm your stance.
The switch to counter insurgency oriented training began with the Vietnam war… which took place over 60-50 years ago. The disastrous counter insurgent performance of a military trained to fight the Soviets prompted a massive overhaul of US doctrine; especially as the prospect of war with the USSR became increasingly unlikely as the Union headed toward collapse. Actually, the effectiveness of the Afghans against the Soviets only intensified US military counter insurgency training and preparation.
Further, the vast majority of Usian veterans are overwhelmingly post-9/11 troops trained in counter insurgency operations before deployment to Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghan, Libya, and other nations where insurgency is the primary mode of combat.
I don’t know in what world you think the US abandoned Iraq, Syria, and Afghan in 2010. The army and national guard were rotating tens of thousands of troops into those nations continuously.
https://wavellroom.com/2023/10/27/us-army-counterinsurgency-doctrine/#%3A%7E%3Atext=This+article+argues+that+the%2Covercome+the+US+Army%27s+inflexibility. “ After the end of the Vietnam War, the US Army shifted its focus from conducting counterinsurgency operations towards conventional warfare against Warsaw Pact forces in Europe. Counterinsurgency became less of a priority and was seen more as a distraction.[mote] Cassidy, Robert M., Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War. (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2006.), 100-101[/note] In line with the so-called Nixon Doctrine23, the US Army only planned to participate in a supporting role in counterinsurgency operations. Such a role, also called the advisory approach, included using advisors and providing resources but excluded the actual employment of combat forces. According to Ucko, this focus on the advisory approach prevented the Army from thoroughly engaging with counterinsurgency theories”
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_counterinsurgency_ohanlon.pdf
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA600359.pdf
I love being right
My timeline for Afghanistan was wrong I thought the troop drawdown was in 2010 but it was in 2011
Love how it didnt fit with your narrative so you Malded instead
Your sources are a blog from a Australian Colonel, and a report from the brookings institute that quite literally supports my position and is the first thing that comes up when you look up “US counterinsurgency”
That’s some revolutionary research. Horrifically smarmy and disingenuous. Did you even read the Brookings piece?
“I love being right” what are you? 12?
Reliable evidence here where’s your evidence
Also lmao where doesnt it prove your position
Reliable evidence isn’t a blog and a piece from a neo-conservative think tank that you didn’t even bother reading.
Grow up
Where’s your evidence