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Article: Special operations recreated in Afghanistan battle simulation.(Special OPS)
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- National Defense
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- February 1, 2005
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SPECIAL FORCES' INFLUENCE ON COMBAT OPERATIONS is taking center stage as simulation designers reconstruct one of the century's first "transformational" battles--the fight for Mazar e-Sharif.
During the campaign, an initial insertion of a dozen soldiers from the 5th Special Forces Group transformed into a several thousand-man army that, aided by precision weapons, drove Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters from northern Afghanistan.
"This was all done with less than 100 special forces soldiers with boots on the ground," recalled Maj. Mark Nutsch, former commander of Operational Detachment 595, the first units infiltrated to wrest Mazar e-Sharif from Taliban and ...