"U.S. set to hand Canada larger role in Afghanistan"
I don't think this story by Matthew Fisher of Canwest News actually gives much more detail about new US forces to come under Canadian command at Kandahar than this story of his Nov. 19. At the end of this post, noting a similar CP piece then, I speculate on who some of those American troops might be:
It is significant, and unusual, that the US is willing to put significant forces under direct Canadian operational control. Remember one US army battalion already has been part of our Task Force Kandahar battle group since late last summer (barely mentioned by most of our media and largely unacknowledged by our politicians) and contributes about one-half of the task force's ground combat strength. The first such battalion, the 2-2 Ramrods, has been replaced by the 1-12 Infantry and shifted from Maywand to Zhari district.
New Canadian commander at Kandahar/More US troops to be under his command?It would seem almost certain that a fair number of the new troops President Obama is set to announce Dec. 1 will be coming to Kandahar--in a few months. I would think most of those would be under US command but some could also be included in our task force along with whatever American forces are assigned to it in the near future.
It is significant, and unusual, that the US is willing to put significant forces under direct Canadian operational control. Remember one US army battalion already has been part of our Task Force Kandahar battle group since late last summer (barely mentioned by most of our media and largely unacknowledged by our politicians) and contributes about one-half of the task force's ground combat strength. The first such battalion, the 2-2 Ramrods, has been replaced by the 1-12 Infantry and shifted from Maywand to Zhari district.
posted by Mark, Ottawa at 2:32 p.m.
1 Comments:
Would like it if you Canadians keep a brigade HQs in Kandahar super embedded in the Kandahar provincial AUP HQs; a super POMLT if you like. You Canadians could have lead responsibility for the Kandahar AUP. Most of the police advisors under Canadian command would be American.
It isn't as if you don't have enough brigade HQs in your OOB to maintain one in Afghanistan indefinitely.
Thanks for your help Northern bros.
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