What Really Happened in the Tagab Valley?
What Really Happened in the Tagab Valley?
A Response to Second Lieutenant James Parker
by Joshua Foust
What Really Happened in the Tagab Valley? (Full PDF Article)
I read with great interest the September 22 post on PSYOP in the Tagab Valley of Kapisa Province. As both the author of several articles on the province, including a study of counterinsurgency operations there, and considering that province was where I spent the majority of my deployment earlier this year, I was excited to hear a bit about how the area was doing.
What I found, however, caused me to scratch my head. 2LT Parker made several assertions that clashed with my experience and understanding of the area, and after asking several ex-colleagues and other contacts in the area, there are a few points that should be disputed.
What Really Happened in the Tagab Valley? (Full PDF Article)
