Logistics and winning the war in Afghanistan

During World War II, the United States supplied and equipped armies and air forces in Burma and China. For the latter, we had to operate an airlift over the Himalayas, nicknamed the "Hump" by the C-47 airmen. What it meant was that about 10,000 longshoremen, sailors, airmen, groundcrewmen, shipfitters, mule drivers, fuel truck drivers, etc. were needed to support each man in the theater who actually fired a weapon. It meant that the bringing of a single pack of cigarettes and a lighter to the theater took a battalion larger than the crew you see on the Verizon Wireless commercials.

Afghanistan is a landlocked country on the other side of the world. It has twice the land area of Iraq, and the roads are no better than Bolivia's. Every pair of infrared glasses needs to be brought 10,000 miles. How do we win?

Here is an excellent article. To win this war will require both tactical and logistical genius. My inclination is that we will have to "go native." We will need to train our troops to live off the land and fight like the locals, with better firepower and communications of course.