Nato secretary general Jens Stoltenberg has said that Afghanistan's 350,000-strong security forces are ready to take on the insurgency alone, despite complaints by officials that they lack the necessary assets, such as air support, medical evacuation and intelligence.
In addition to advice, he said, the special forces will help provide medical evacuation, communication, intelligence and other support to the Iraqi military.
These include air transport for logistics and medical evacuation, surveillance and intelligence, and close air support.
However, they still need assistance with logistics, air support, intelligence, medical evacuation and dealing with improvised explosive devices (see article).
Nonetheless, at Bertrand's suggestion French intelligence ordered the evacuation of Cadix.
Until now, the United States has been providing its European allies with logistics and intelligence, air protection and evacuation for the wounded.
But senior Army officials say that to be effective in Afghanistan, where the heaviest fighting occurs in remote areas, the teams need to bring extra support from attack helicopters, artillery units, intelligence troops and medical evacuation forces.
The Iraqi government has asked the U.S. military for intelligence, forensics, surveillance and medical evacuation support since the bombings, all of which the U.S. has continued to provide since June 30, when troops withdrew from the cities, said Maj.
In addition to directing infantry units, they can order air and artillery strikes, arrange for medical evacuations and access a broad selection of intelligence.
He also noted that to carry out commando raids, the American military needs bases, an intelligence network and arrangements for medical evacuation.
The concept of the ABS has been widely used in computer science, biology, and social science to simulate swarm intelligence, dynamic social behavior, and fire evacuation.
