Children previously rescued from armed groups are at greater risk because commanders seek out battle-hardened youths, many of whom fail to reintegrate into family and community life because of a lack of resources for care and schooling, he said.
While recognizing these risks, American commanders in Iraq say proper planning could result in significant advantages that could help offset the dangers.
But he said that given the risks, Polish commanders were also probably happy not to be part of any operation attacking the shrine.
Even with the risks, military commanders say that using American Special Operations troops could bring an intelligence windfall, if militants were captured, brought back across the border into Afghanistan and interrogated.
At the time of his nomination in early 2013, Hagel looked like the ideal pick for a risk-adverse Commander-in-Chief: a former Republican senator who could protect the president from charges of being weak on defense, a Vietnam veteran wounded twice in action, and a man who turned against the Iraq war on principle when most of his Republican colleagues continued to support it.
Nato was then forced to deny any security risk after Northern Fleet commanders were quoted by the RIA news agency boasting about "undertaking a series of exercises" while anchored off the UK.
If some Taliban defect, room may have to be found for them in the new dispensation.Early agreement on an arrangement to bring these factions together might hasten the fall of the Taliban, by giving potential opponents a clear alternative to back, and lessen the risk of rogue commanders exploiting territories they control, which helped the Taliban come to power in the first place.
They could have been talking on their own, of course — although what politically astute military man would risk crossing his commander in chief just two months into his term?
Philip could therefore risk sending his commander Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3er duque de Alba, with his best Spanish and Italian troops to the Netherlands (1567) to settle the problems of that dominion once and for all.
But no reply was given – the Allies insisted on "unconditional surrender", which did not help to persuade more of the commanders to risk their necks.
