only the non combatents though. Good thing I am not in charge I would immeadiately find an unoccupied flat spot. Humoungous appearing attempt to establish a base by air. Offer food and shelter to any who come. Make friends. As the taliban or whoever start surrounding the area move people and equipment to the refugee camps, feed them, clothe them. Have a very lightly staffed but huge amount of humanitarian aid in the middle of the country. Exfiltrate rapidly leave the area. As the victorious whosits move in you would have a lot of infiltrators in their ranks, folks who are nasty in the dark planted all over the place. Then it is a nasty brutish shoot and loot and book. The world wonders what why the US lost, we kill the heads of the beast and make some friends in the area. Stick around the edges and leave some friends in place. Now the the real problem, the bekka valley, parts of Iraq (not bugdad) where the pirates live. We are not fighting nations but pirates, freebooters and slavers just like the 18th and 19th century. It is time to clean out the nests and thank the host country politely as we pull out with our trophy heads.
thanx,
bill