GIs await reinforcements as Pentagon retools its anti-insurgency efforts
Stalemate
May 14: NYT: The U.S. counter-insurgency in this Taliban stronghold in Kunar Province has been at a bloody draw for years now.
KORANGAL OUTPOST, Afghanistan - The helicopters landed in blackness before the moon rose. The infantry company rushed out and through waist-high vegetation and into forests on an Afghan ridge.
Over the next 40 hours, more than 100 soldiers from the First Battalion, 26th Infantry, swept Sautalu Sar, the mountain where members of the Navy Seals were surrounded in battle in 2005. They were looking for weapons caches and insurgents.>>>>>>
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