Lock n load ANZAC troops

[Stealhead]

I wonder if the Kiwis are easier targets because they maybe lack IED "proof" vehicles? I know that the US,UK,Germans and French and Aussies have plenty of good vehicles that protect the crews from blasts.Maybe the Kiwis lack these and therefore are an easy target for IEDs.

The US IED absorbing vehicles cost about 1 million to 1.4 million a piece though.

The Taliban like to use the tactic of dressing as or paying off a Afghan cop or solider(money goes to his family) because that is an easy way to attack NATO troops and it makes the NATO troops less likely to trust Afghans in general which plays into the hands of the Taliban.It is insurgency/counterinsurgency warfare nasty stuff.

NZ uses the same small arms as the Aussises right so they should be equal to an Australian unit in firepower.The ANZAC SASR needs to go crack some heads my dad worked with those guys in Vietnam sometimes they where very tough back then.

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

The Taliban like to use the tactic of dressing as or paying off a Afghan cop or solider(money goes to his family) because that is an easy way to attack NATO troops and it makes the NATO troops less likely to trust Afghans in general which plays into the hands of the Taliban.

We're not actually NATO. We're UN.
I know, all these initials are confusing!

[Stealhead]

They are part of the ISAF International Security Force which includes members of NATO and Nations like Australasia,France and New Zeland. Some kiwi troops are part of a UN program though UNAMA.

Are you sure you know what your countrymen are doing in Afghanistan?

As far as I am aware they are not there as peace keepers same goes for Australasia.The ISAF is not a UN action.

I said NATO because it is easier although ISAF would be a more correct term.

http://www.defence.gov.au/op/afghani.../factsheet.htm

http://www.isaf.nato.int/article/isa...nd-forces.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...sistance_Force

[Cybermat47]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

They are part of the ISAF International Security Force which includes members of NATO and Nations like Australasia,France and New Zeland. Some kiwi troops are part of a UN program though UNAMA.

Are you sure you know what your countrymen are doing in Afghanistan?

As far as I am aware they are not there as peace keepers same goes for Australasia.The ISAF is not a UN action.

I said NATO because it is easier although ISAF would be a more correct term.

http://www.defence.gov.au/op/afghani.../factsheet.htm

http://www.isaf.nato.int/article/isa...nd-forces.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...sistance_Force

I really hate how all these organizations with the same countries in them and the same goals have to have different names.

But Australia being part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?!

[Stealhead]

They are not you are getting ISAF and NATO confused I think.ISAF consists of nations some of which are NATO and others that are not.Or you think that I think that they are NATO members.

The one link shows the ISAF emblem on one side and the NATO emblem on the other this must be because NATO is the only treaty organization fully involved with ISAF.NATO must be running the ISAF website as well which would explain why it has nato.int in the address it does not mean that New Zealand or Australiaare NATO members.

I was never trying to say that they where NATO members my use of the term "NATO" troops was an error.

[Cybermat47]

Ok, let's call the whole thing off!