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Article: AFGHANISTAN - June 10 - US Marines Apply Lessons Learned In Iraq To Afghanistan.
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- APS Diplomat Recorder
- Article date:
- June 14, 2008
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US marines pushed the Taliban out of this village and the surrounding district in southern Helmand Province so quickly in recent weeks that they called the operation a "catastrophic success Yet NATO troops conducted similar operations here in 2006 and 2007, and the Taliban returned soon after they left. The marines, drawing on lessons from Iraq, say they know what to do to keep the Taliban at bay if they are given the time. "There is definitely someone thinking out there", Captain John Moder, commander of Company C of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, said of the Taliban. "That's why we need these people to be at least neutral to us", he said, gesturing to the farmers ...
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