Talk:Operation Medusa

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[edit] Copyright infringement

Two paragraphs were removed due to their being inept rewrites of an AP story which can be found at http://www.forbes.com/business/manufacturing/feeds/ap/2006/09/03/ap2990613.html.

Eleland 19:09, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New photo needed

The current (20:10, 4 September 2006 (UTC)) picture shows US troops in Kunar Province on Aug 29, which isn't really relevant to a NATO operation in Kandahar Province launched in September.

Eleland 20:10, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

looks like someone has fixed this. - Cybergoth 17:52, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

I suggest merging this to Taliban insurgency; both articles are rather poor and I think we could make one good article out of them. I'll continue to work on improving both articles, but if there are no serious objections I'll merge in a few days. --Guinnog 20:39, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Object While putting down the Taliban is part of this operation, the Taliban insurgency is a separate issue, merging these two subjects would be confusing, and the Taliban insurgency has been going on longer. This is a purely military operation, and the Taliban is part political, part military problem.Lan Di 21:12, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
Object, same reason as above --Boris Johnson VC 13:02, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup needed

Right now this is basically a bunch of long paragraphs dumped together with no overall structure. There is too much gnats-eye-view stuff, which, I'm pretty sure, was ripped off of the AP wire by anonymous editors. Most of it should be stripped out, or moved to a point-form timeline ("day 6: artillery strikes here", etc).

I would ask for a large scale narrative synthesizing what is really happening, but nobody seems to know what is really happening. (Maybe NATO, but they aren't telling.)

Eleland 18:15, 15 September 2006 (UTC)


  • There are many sources available. Afghan News, for example, is giving a daily selection of article's published at different news channels and newspapers

[edit] Please Remove in "war box"

The war box under the info box contains "Veritas" and "Herrick"... the two do not belong in the box as they are the names of the overall missions that the British are involved in and not the operations which had the purpose of clearing areas, (the way anaconda was for clearing the valley, medusa for the panjwaii district, tora bora for the tora bora mountains) which is what the box is for.

.. Hellopple.. Oct 24

[edit] Results?

Pretty much all of the Afghanistan War battles are listed as ISAF victories. This view is unsupportable by evidence.

Battles are not competitions for body counts; they are fought to achieve larger strategic objectives. It is in no way clear that Operations Medusa, Mountain Thrust, Falcon Summit, etc have achieved their objectives. If Medusa was a victory, than why is the operation basically being re-run as Falcon Summit?

I believe the result should be something like "tactical NATO success; strategic results unclear". Eleland 15:02, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

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