US army in Afghanistan

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Low Intensity conflict was inherited
by Pakistan from the British Indian
Empire. Low Intensity conflict
remained the central part of
Pakistani history from the earliest
days. The Pakistani state waged
the first Low Intensity war in
Kashmir with major inputs by British
officers civilian and military serving
in Pakistan after independence. In
the 1960s the ISI supervised small
low intensity conflicts in Indias
North East Frontier areas. The
greatest experiment however took
place when the Afghan war

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commenced in 1978 initially with
British support and from 1979 with
US support and Pakistan became a
massive Proxy base against the
USSR forces in Afghanistan. While
the USA withdrew in 1979 the ISI
inherited a huge proxy war base
that was maintained and diverted to
other fronts like Indian held
Kashmir as well as civil war
plagued Afghanistan. The huge
Afghan proxy war base was now
remodeled to support Pakistani
proxies in Afghanistan. The so
called Afghan Mujahideen proxies
of USA and Pakistan and the west
were now divided on ethnic basis
with non Pashtuns and moderate
Muslim Pashtuns becoming

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US/Western/Indian/Russian proxies
and Pashtuns/extremist Muslims
becoming Pakistani proxies. In
1994 Pakistan midwife the so
called Taliban movement which
captured Kabul with Pakistani. The
Pakistani establishment saw
Afghanistan as a massive proxy
reservoir with which Pakistan could
redress and balance the strategic
grievance that it was with India over
the Jammu and Kashmir state
since 1947. The USA had
strategically abandoned Pakistan
after 1989 and came close to
declaring Pakistan a terrorist state
by 1999. The Pakistani
establishment searched for
alternatives and by 1999-2002

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came to the conclusion that China
was Pakistans best strategic
choice. Traditionally the Muslims of
India and Pakistan were saved
from total subjugation and political
extinction by Hindus and Sikhs by
the English East India Companys
arrival in 1803-49 , when English
East India Company destroyed the
Hindu Marathas and the Sikhs in
the period mentioned. After
Independence Pakistani ruling
establishment searched for
strategic allies and saviours and
found the USA in the period 1947-
54.So Pakistan became a US
concubine in return for US
economic and military aid. The
Pakistani US love affair lasted till

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1971 after which Pakistans
charismatic civilian Premier courted
with idealism in shape of quest for
nuclear weapons ,Islamic bloc and
third world.This romantic
experiment collapsed in 1977 with
a US bank rolled agitation
movement and a coup detat by a
US cultivated Pakistani army
general. Pakistan again became a
US concubine and a massive proxy
base for US led Soviet Afghan
Proxy war. The USA abruptly left
the scene in 1989 practically
surrendering Afghanistan to the
Pakistani state. In 2001 when the
USA occupied Afghanistan it did
not invade the Taliban but
Pakistans strategic backyard. This

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important fact was not fully grasped
and understood by the USA.

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The author with dear friend Colonel David
Osinski in front of NATO Headquarters
Kabul 29 June 2010

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The author with great friend and mentor
Professor Rasul Amin in Kabul November
2007

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Introduction
This is a personal as well as historical
account.
Personal in the sense that I saw closely
Afghanistan from 29 June 2004 till todate

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permanently being based in Kabul as a
consultant.
During this period I met many Americans
as well as Europeans and closely saw US
Army Operations in Kandahar and Helmand
where many of my projects were located.
Being a student of history I first studied US
Army in detail from 1983 .During this study
“Crisis in Command” a book by two US
Army officers remained the bible of my
analysis.
Accounts of civilians like Carlotta Gall
were useful but devoid of true
understanding of the nature of the US
Army.
What I saw of the US Army in Afghanistan
once again proved the solid worth of
analysis carried out by Richard A .Gabriel
and Paul L.Savage initially published in
1978.
The higher cadre in the US Army as proven
in Afghanistan remains plagued by

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careeristic opportunism and continue to
regard the rank and file useful cannon
fodder for their personal advancement.
As a second generation Pakistan Army
officer I closely saw Pakistan Army from
the earliest age till March 1994 when I
retired as a major.
Countless conversations with my relative
and friend Colonel Salman who trained all
the major so called Jihadis from
Hekmatyar and Massoud till Osama Bin
Laden made me understand the ISI
mindset.
My dear coursemate and friend Major
General Asif Khattak was another great
aide in understanding the ISI mindset.
Countless other ISI officers that I met
enabled me to understand , how they think
and how the ISI operates.
This account is a summary of those
observations grounded in the initial period

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1947-79 and reinforced by direct
observations from 1979 till todate.
This small book is written and distributed
in public interest and has no profit motive.
Since I have no faith in nationalism or
narrow religion of any kind there is no
ideological axe to grind in this short work.
It is hoped that this work will act as a
primer of more detailed studies.
Major Agha H Amin (Retired)
Chapter One
Background
Chapter Two
Understanding Pakistans Geopolitical
architecture
Chapter Four

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US occupation of Afghanistan
The US occupation of Afghanistan in itself
was a mickey mouse affair.
The US did not lose a single soldier in
occupying Afghanistan in real fighting less
an over enthusiastic CIA civilian who died
because of his own rashness at Mazar
Sharif.
Chapter Five
Musharraf Deception
Chapter Six
Hibernation and Calm and the reason for
Pakistani decision to escalate in the south
Chapter Seven
Understanding Strategy and major US
errors

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Chapter Eight
Pakistan’s FATA War

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Chapter Nine
The Use of Islam as a tool by Pakistani
state exposed
Chapter Eleven
The Surge and careerism of Mc Chrystal
and Petraeus
All along drone strikes were carried out in
an area which had nothing to do with 90
percent US deaths in Afghanistan.
If instead drone strikes were carried out in
Pakistani Baluchistan on the Taliban base
area Pakistan could have been pressurized
into reducing its support to its Taliban
proxies.
Chapter Twelve
The US Drone program

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This was the biggest scam in US history
designed to fool the US public that USG
was very harsh with the so called
terrorists in the great war on terror.
I am not against drone strikes in particular
but I am against drone strikes in two small
districts which had little to do with US
deaths in Afghanistan.
Chapter Thirteen
Pakistani claims about sacrifices in so
called war on Terror
Chapter Fourteen
Future options