The Warfare And The War Of Attrition

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May 2nd, 2011 marked a day of celebration for Americans and its allies who have lost loved ones due to attacks by those associated with al-Qaeda. This was the day the Seal Team 6 came into Osama bin Laden’s (OBL) hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. With OBL killed, his vision of war on the United States and commitment to killing innocent people, not only in America, but around the world was killed as well. Fast forward three years later and it is painstakingly clear this is not true. The tactics OBL used back during the Afghan-Soviet war, by way of “guerilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as (OBL), alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for ten years, until it went bankrupt” (Howard & Hoffman, 2012). When 9/11 happened, it only took a handful of al-Qaeda operatives to perform an attack which killed thousands of innocent people and cost the United States an estimated two trillion dollars.
After OBL’s death, America still continued to have troops in Afghanistan and fund counterterrorist efforts. With the emergence of broken off cells of al-Qaeda suc...

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