I'll compile more information in the future, but reviewing (yes I'm never fast on the hop, comes from consuming too much spicy food and beer) the recent French Spec Ops fiasco in Mali I'm getting the feeling that French Intel and part of their Services are either: A) rank amateur and not engaged with enough counterinsurgency and or special forces actions of late, B) Their intel is just so woeful they drop the ball more now, C) a bit of both.
Premise; The US Army has gained a wealth of counterinsurgency skills and more importantly know-how, at least since October 2001, and this shows. Gone is the ineptitude and lack of clear goals in cases such as the much publicised US cock-up in Somalia in 1993 (read; "Black Hawk Down", No! READ the book by Mark Bowden).
Should make for some interesting dissection. Western Europeans?, they're just too soft now.
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