Mike Sylwester – Most of the young Pashtun jihadists trying to sneak across the border from Pakistan into Afghanistan are doomed. They are being watched from above as soon as they walk out of their Pakistani mosque and climb into their truck to begin their ride toward the border.

A wet dream of some almighty “eye in the sky” made by a young man utterly ignorant of military limits to US air surveillance capacity.
The few “birds” that scan a small fraction of the humanity below them are utterly ignorant to what is in the hearts of such people, what their intentions are. Nothing substitutes for human intelligence and winning the information, and ideological warfare outside the military’s sphere. Something the US has learbed to rue time and time again.

Our ability to target top leaders is especially devastaing. In their administration of their forces and resources, relatively little is written down, so when any such leader is killed, much organizational policy and information perishes forever.

More crap. Most terrorist groups except those foolishly aggragating power to a few charismatics (shining path, PLO) are learning organizations. The Israelis stupidly played whack a mole couterterrorism for years as they built up their Settlements, refused to address grievances, and relied on WMD and technical superiority.

All they did was provoke a Darwinian process in terrorist groups to make them fire-tested, more flexible, and weed out the unwary and stupid leaders for the likes of Nasrallah. They lost demographically, had to quit Gaza, and now face a weary USA and West not so interested in preserving Zionist nuclear and technical monopoly.

There are about 40 million Pashtuns, but a few thousand of our soldiers are controlling them.

Yeah, a few thousand of our red-blooded Jesus-loving high-tech, special ops supersoldiers are controlling 40 million born to fight mountain warfare Pashtuns.
In your dreams.