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아프가니스탄 공중전은 강렬에서 성장한다
수요일, 2008년 7월 30일 RINF 공개토론에 있는 이 보고를 토론하십시오 > 워싱톤 - 미국에 의하여 매일 공습. 그리고 아프가니스탄에 있는 연합하는 전투기 폭격기는 미국에 따르면 지난 여름부터 거의, 두배로 했다. 공군 자료는, 반영하는 동향 폭동을 일으키는 공격 또한 민간 사상자에 관한 절상 관심사를 증가했다. 미국에 의하여 공습에 성장 신뢰. 아프가니스탄에 있는 지휘관은 전쟁 동안에 회전을 표를 하는 것처럼 보인다. 지상 지휘관에게서 요구에 반응해서, 연합하는 항공기 정상은 과거 주 500를 - 그리고 2,000 파운드 인도한 폭탄 떨어지고 공군 매일 타격 보고에 따르면 포탄 발사를 가진 적군을, 기총소사하는 아프가니스탄의 맞은편에 일 배 68의 평균 적 지상 표적을 주먹으로 연거푸 쳤다. 년 전에, 공군은 아프가니스탄에 있는 일 당 35의 공습 대략 기록이었다. 밝히는 무슨과 공군이이더라도 사고사를 피하는 철저한 측정 가지고 가더라도, 공습에서 민간 사상자에는 인권 감시 연구원 포도 찌꺼기 Garlasco 의 펜타곤의 통합참모를 위한 이전 표적으로 하는 장에서 새로운, 미출판 자료에 따르면 아무도에서 3월에서 23 60에에 1월에서 spiked, 이제까지는 이 달, 올해에 두번 있다. Taliban 지도한 폭도는 뜻깊은 수에서 공격하고 그리고 싸우기 위하여 체재하고 보다는 오히려 전통적인 뺑소니 게릴라 전술에서 미국에 따르면, 접전하고 있다. 지휘관. 몇몇 최근 사건에서는, 미국. 그리고 연합하는 부대는 투구한 전투에서 직후에 돌풍까지 보인 전투기 폭격기 폭도 통용했다. 공군력의 성장 역할은 전쟁이 곁에 추천된 추가적인 부대 보다는 더 많은 것을 요구할 것이라는 점을 건의한다 부시 대통령 그리고 두 대통령 후보자 다. 그것은 이미 심하게 잡아 당겨진 공군 및 해군에게서 사람을 배치하고 거세한 항공기 요구할지도 모르다. 그리고 공군력의 더 중대한 사용은 이기는 현지 충절이 성공에 열쇠이라고 여겨지는 충돌에서 민간 사상자 아마, 귀착될 것입니다. 지난 가을에, 아프가니스탄 대통령 Hamid Karzai, 미국이 대안을 찾아낸ㄴ다는 것을, 공중으로 요구되는 공습에서 일어나는 민간인 사망자 수에 반응. 그러나 공습은 단지 증가했다. 연합하는 지휘관은 아직도 아프가니스탄 정부가 결혼식에 죽인 그들의 방법에 47명의 민간인을 밝히는 7월 6일 공습을 조사하고 있다. "우리는 깊게 민간인이 해쳐지는 어떤 사건든지," 말했다 왕 해군 대위를 후회한다. 마이크 Finney 의 미국을 위한 대변인 - 아프가니스탄에 있는 지도된 군 연합. ' 용기를 주는 적 `But the Air Force says it is only responding to the intensity of fighting on the ground. “Let’s face it, the enemy is more emboldened,” said Air Force Maj. Gen. Douglas L. Raaberg, deputy commander of air operations in the region. Raaberg is a B-1 bomber pilot who has flown strike missions over Afghanistan as recently as last week. “The Taliban, when they have an opportunity to take a stand, they are doing that,” he said in a telephone interview from the region. Coalition aircraft have doubled the number of hours they spend each day on airborne “armed overwatch” of U.S. and allied convoys and other operations, he said. He acknowledged that strike missions also have doubled as ground commanders increasingly request air support. To meet the demand, allied air crews are flying more sorties each day, and more U.S. aircraft are on station with the recent diversion of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln from Iraq operations to supporting operations in Afghanistan. “We are shifting assets as needed to make sure we don’t leave [ground forces] uncovered,” Raaberg said. But the Air Force has to scramble to meet unexpected demand. A Taliban attack July 13, for example, nearly overran a remote U.S. and Afghan outpost near the Pakistani border. Insurgents held the upper hand in combat until an Air Force B-1 bomber flew in to drop 2,000-pound bombs, an unmanned Predator fired a Hellfire missile and other strike aircraft dropped bombs and strafed the enemy with cannon. The insurgents retreated, leaving nine American soldiers dead. “The only reason they weren’t completely overrun was air power, and that’s the first time that has happened” in the Afghan war, said John McCreary, who retired in 2006 as a senior intelligence analyst for the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. “Coalition ground forces are not winning every battle, but they are winning every battle where they have air support,” said McCreary, who follows Afghanistan closely and still assembles a daily open-source intelligence report. On July 20, Raaberg was piloting a B-1 bomber over Afghanistan when he was redirected to attack Taliban forces gathering for an assault on a U.S. forward operating base in Kunar province, in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. “They started attacking within half an hour of when I got there,” Raaberg recalled. He said U.S. artillery fired at the enemy, followed by airstrikes, followed by more artillery and more airstrikes, “until we ran out of bombs.” Defeating such Taliban attacks, he said, is “not so much air [power] saving the day, it’s air combined with ground forces combined with our coalition partners. We’re trying to use everything.” Analysts who have studied casualty patterns in Afghanistan say that the vast majority are caused, deliberately or not, by the Taliban and other insurgents. According to Human Rights Watch, a nonpartisan international research organization, 929 Afghan civilians were killed in the fighting in 2006. Of those, 699 were killed by the Taliban and 230 by U.S. or coalition forces, including 116 by airstrikes. In 2007, 1,633 Afghan civilians died in the fighting, with 950 killed by the Taliban and 434 by U.S. and coalition forces, according to data provided by Garlasco. The rest died under unclear or unknown circumstances, he said. But while the number killed by U.S. or coalition ground forces stayed about the same, those killed by airstrikes more than doubled, to 321. A key reason for the increase is that the Taliban are “shielding” their fighters among Afghanistan’s civilian population, Garlasco said. “They actually go into peoples’ homes, force them to stay there during a battle, force them to build defensive trenches for them - these are true Geneva Conventions violations,” Garlasco said. Raaberg said the Air Force will not attack insurgents shielding themselves among civilians “and the enemy knows that.” Unplanned strikesBut Garlasco said the Air Force has not taken as much care with its quick-reaction airstrike missions as it has with those planned in detail and reviewed by intelligence analysts and lawyers at the U.S. regional air operations headquarters in Qatar. “In their planned airstrikes, they have virtually eliminated the danger of civilian casualties,” Garlasco said. “It is in the unplanned airstrikes that you’re seeing almost all of the civilian casualties.” Such unplanned missions often involve urgent calls to support U.S. and allied troops who unexpectedly engage in battle. Or an unmanned surveillance plane might find a group of people mistakenly identified by targeters as insurgents. Raaberg said that for unplanned missions - such as the one in which he participated July 20 - the air command dispatches not just strike aircraft but intelligence and command aircraft, all in close coordination with ground commanders and tactical air controllers. “It’s a painstaking effort,” he said. If insurgents are mixed in with civilians, “we will wait them out if we can” or ask the ground commander to flush them out. But U.S. and allied troops in trouble take precedence. “My hat’s off to the ones on the ground,” Raaberg said. “There’s nothing more uncomfortable than to hear on the radio mortars and grenades going off. You’ve got to go help them.” Discuss this report in the RINF forums > Have Your Say: Afghan air war grows in intensity This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 at 10:45 pm and is filed under War & Terrorism News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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