NATO forces getting killed? I believe over 500 Taliban rebels have been killed so far. The US SOFs are doing a fine job up there. Afghanistan is a very good lesson for anyone who wants to look at how effective SOFs are. It took a couple of thousand of them combined with Northern Alliance forces and backed by air power to take down the Taliban. And right now they're kicking a lot of @$$!
Not really... NATO infact is having very hard time managing things in Afghanistan. The insurgency and attacks are at same level as Iraq if not more but targets are more military oriented rather than civilians as is the case in Iraq.
The idea that allied forces are "
kicking a lot of ass" is wishful thinking, they are not.
Some related news stories:
September 12th, 2006, 12:49
Land Forces
The recent tenacity demonstrated by Afghan insurgents in southern Afghanistan reflects their attempt to test NATO’s resolve, but that opposition will be quelled, says the alliance’s supreme commander in Europe, US Marine Corps General James Jones.
September 11th, 2006, 12:50
Strategic Defence and Security
NATO forces in southern Afghanistan are not in dire need of reinforcements, but the international community needs to fulfill its commitment of military forces to ensure the ground commander has enough flexibility to quell the rise in violence in the region
September 11th, 2006, 12:33
Strategic Defence and Security
Five years after al-Qaida assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic Afghan mujahedin leader who fought the Taliban and Osama bin Laden's organization, the Islamist insurgency has crept out of the rugged Afghan mountains, making its way into Kabul.
September 11th, 2006, 12:31
Strategic Defence and Security
An officer has resigned from the British army in protest at its "grotesquely clumsy" campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan, a newspaper reported Sunday.
September 8th, 2006, 01:11
Strategic Defence and Security
British forces in Afghanistan are attacked up to a dozen times a day and are involved in "extraordinarily intense" fighting in the country, the senior British commander there said on Thursday.
September 8th, 2006, 01:03
Strategic Defence and Security
Almost a week into its biggest offensive against the Taliban, NATO says it has cornered a large group of fighters and killed about 300, but still needs more troops and aircraft to finish the job.
September 8th, 2006, 12:49
Strategic Defence and Security
NATO's military commander has called for allied nations to provide more troops to combat a surprisingly strong insurgency in the south of conflict-scarred Afghanistan.
September 7th, 2006, 02:06
Strategic Defence and Security
Pakistan, criticized by some Afghan leaders over cross-border infiltration by the Taliban, vowed on Sept. 6 to help its neighbor fight terrorism as Afghanistan battles its worst violence in five years
September 5th, 2006, 12:32
Strategic Defence and Security
Britain's new army chief warned Monday that the country's military forces are stretched to the very limit, as three soldiers died in a grim day for Britons on the frontline in Afghanistan and Iraq.
There are many other stories where the above came from which show that NATO and allied forces are having tough time in Afghanistan, as any invader did in the past.