No wonder NATO won’t help US more in A-stan

Considering the American military has an ongoing history of stiffing NATO troops by denying them U.S. field-level intelligence.

A very damning report also says that U.S. generals are resistant to CIA intelligence; that (duh) Afghan tribal leaders are junk false intelligence peddlers; and that, reminiscent of body bags in Vietnam, many commanders count the success of locally gathered intelligence by how much tip money they disburse.

The main point in the study is exacerbated by the fact that, as a percentage of population, the UK has more troops in Afghanistan than does the US.

As the story notes, it seems a lot of non-American brass hats in Afghanistan feel like they are in a Catch-22 situation. In part because they don't have a pipeline to American intelligence, they don't feel sure they know what American strategic plans are, or how they fit into that.