US plans robust operations against Taliban for start of 'fighting season'
Times:
I remember watching Arc Light attacks at night in Vietnam. They were awesome. It was not only a light show at night, but you could feel the impact from miles away. I talked with some of the pilots who flew out Guam and they had little idea about the perspective of US troops on the ground. Interrogation of enemy troops who survived the attacks told how they were literally tossed into the air by the concussion from the concentrated bombing.
The US is preparing an onslaught against insurgents in Afghanistan when the Taliban’s fighting season starts in the spring.The B-52 continue to be a devastating weapon against enemy troop concentrations because they can carry a much heavier pay load than the fighter jets that have been used for the same mission, Besides the precision guided missiles the bombers can carry even more conventional ordinance.
American troop reinforcements are arriving and an array of additional bombers and ground-attack aircraft are lined up at the two main American bases at Bagram, near Kabul, and Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
They include 18 F-16s, 12 A-10 “Warthog” Thunderbolt II close-air support aircraft, half a dozen armed Reaper drones and a steady rotation of B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers that fly in from bases outside Afghanistan.
As a taste of what is to come, a B-52 dropped 24 precision-guided bombs this week on Taliban training camps in northern Afghanistan. The US military said it was the biggest attack of its kind by a B-52.
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I remember watching Arc Light attacks at night in Vietnam. They were awesome. It was not only a light show at night, but you could feel the impact from miles away. I talked with some of the pilots who flew out Guam and they had little idea about the perspective of US troops on the ground. Interrogation of enemy troops who survived the attacks told how they were literally tossed into the air by the concussion from the concentrated bombing.
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