‘Everybody doing their thing’: coalition warfare in southern Afghanistan, 2006–10
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
When American General Stanley McChrystal assumed command of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in 2009, each of his five subordinate regional commands across Afghanistan was 'fighting completely different wars'. 1 This was especially the case in the largest, Regional Command South (RC South), where command rotated between the UK, Canada and the Netherlands, and where provincial efforts-in Helmand, Kandahar, Uruzgan and Zabul-were often conducted without cooperation or cohesion and along national lines. 2 There 'wasn't a unified effort in the south', said one of the International Security Assistance Force's earlier commanders, American General Dan McNeill, who characterised the situation as 'everybody doing their thing'. 3 Different nations had different priorities, approaches, constraints and appetites for casualties.Missions varied, as did the resources allocated to prosecute them.Inconsistent operational tour durations and carefully crafted caveats made the task of exercising command and control even more challenging.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it