Operation Anaconda: Perception Meets Reality in the Hills of Afghanistan

The first contact between Al Qaeda and the US Army taught a series of lessons that echoed in the battlefield of today's Afghanistan. Both sides entered into a fight with prejudice about the idea of ​​the enemies who disappeared at the battlefield of Shahi-Kott Valley. America decides not to repeat the mistake of surrounding Tora Bora. Their fighter aircraft demanded to carry out a fast lightning strike strategy to surround enemies with highly mobile US and Afghan troops, but intelligence failures and fog of war are often caused by anaconda often invisible enemies I had a hard time fighting a long and slow battle with. Al Qaeda has all the advantages of terrain and defense, but it does not cause mass casualties as they believe that they will ban American invaders from Afghanistan. Since Silence returned to Shahi-Kot, the two sides leave the battlefield, bring valuable lessons, and prevent similar encounters.

As of March 2, 2002, Viper action was the greatest terrorism war in the Afghanistan war that began after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Commander of the 10th mountain command of the US Army, Hagenbeck commander, took out the rest of the al Qaeda fighter whose Taliban fighters were in the Shire Cot Valley. This mission includes about 2,000 people including more than 900 special Americans, 200 American Special Forces, other units, 200 special operations units from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, France, Norway, New Zealand and Afghanistan Allied forces involved.

Viper's behavior took place in early March 2002. The CIA paramilitary cooperated with allies to try to destroy al Qaeda and the Taliban army. The strategy took place in the Shahi - Kot Valley in the southeast of Zormat and the Alma Mountains. Since the battle of Tora Bora in December 2001, this strategy was the first major battle in Afghanistan since the war since 2001. This is the first time that the theaters in Afghanistan have involved numerous American daily actions (ie, nonspecial operations). Army will participate directly in battle activities

Garamone; "The French Air Force is deploying fighter aircraft in eastern Afghanistan," AFP, March 4, 2002. The French fighter carried out "two missions" in this area to support the Viper on March 2nd and 3rd. These aircraft have never participated in the explosion in the Alma Mountains and have been carrying out their duties for the first time yet. Adam Geibel is S2 of the New Cavalry National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division, 5/117 Cavalry. He is a magazine ammunition magazine and a journalist at www.strategypage.com. His article "Deadly city poison clouds: Grozny, December 1999 - January 2000" was published in the military commentary from January to February 2002. He wants feedback from seniors of the anaconda strategy.