Did Big Willy say a year ago that the only way to win in Afghanistan was to use the...

Big Willy

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...Boer War civvy camp system? Was he right? Looks like it. Gen Stan MacCrystal now says the priority must be to protect the civvy population from the Taliban (for "protect", read "isolate").
That means full-on concentration camps outside the larger towns, not the half-arse "protected hamlets" tried in Vietnam, and a hugely expanded network of informers. Larger towns must be divided into districts with walls and strictly supervised check-points.
 
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