How the US has become involved in more and more proxy wars worldwide
. These highly trained, well-equipped units operate in nearly 150 countries around the world, usually in advisory roles. The scale of ongoing operations around the world is staggering to many, yet signifies a new kind of war that never ends.
But Afghanistan seems to be the exception, and not the rule to the US strategy of war by proxy. Only a few countries such as Afghanistan, see SOCOM officers in direct combat. Many more host them as advisors and trainers for their own, local special forces. Alex S. Ameter, 32, signed up for the army in 2010, nine years into the war in Afghanistan. His motivations for joining the army were distinctly those of an American millennial. Ameter joined to pay off his student loans.
“If we need to go kill somebody in that country, we can operate with that local force. So we don’t need to have a base in places, if we can just swoop in, merc a dude with a country’s forces, so we can say ‘Yeah we did it with them’. That was the whole plan. It is just that we sucked at diplomacy, so that was never going to work.”
But joining with some of these proxy fighters means deciding that the enemy of America’s enemies are America’s friends. That policy can lead to the establishment of plenty of insincere friendships, based on only a transactional interest. Proxy fighters also tend to have their own shifting interests or goals that will conflict with those of the United States or its allies.
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