U.S. Special Forces Team Sets Up Afghan Counterpart

A U.S. Special Forces A-team on the outskirts of Kabul has been assigned to establish an Afghan Special Forces organization from scratch, the Army Times reports.

Setting up the special operations force fits the indirect counterinsurgency approach. The Afghan SF is intended "to create an indigenous special operations force capable of countering enemy efforts head on, at the lowest level possible: the Afghan tribal and family subsystems," said U.S. military officials.

The first...