Why PRTs are Critical
Provincial Reconstruction Teams or PRTs are the key to Afghanistan and it becoming a sovereign nation that can defend its own borders, protect its people, and sustain an infrastructure. These PRTs are located all over the country and are commanded and staffed by whatever country has responsibility for that area. The US used to run the ones down where I was, but that is where the Polish have stepped in to help. This has freed up more US assets to focus on the real fight and work on eliminating the enemy.
You can read a lot more about PRTs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincial_Reconstruction_Team
Of course the basic concept of war is to kill so many of the enemy’s people that they eventually give up because they don’t want any more to die. However if the enemy has a bottomless pit of bullet fodder because they are brainwashing them all over the world, then the next step is to empower the local people, help them build an infrastructure, give them something to be proud of and want to protect. This approach should empower the people to stand up on their own, produce goods, and foster a lifestyle where they do not scrounge for everything and they have to be so corrupt.
