Another case of bad equipment and military planning and leadership

Rating: 2/10 (15 January 2014)

After capturing three un-armed Afghans who could blow their cover on a mission to kill a Taliban leader, the unit's leader says they had 3 options: 1) kill the hostages 2) tie them up -- in which case they would most likely be eaten by wolves, or 3) let them go.
They chose option 3, and soon were pursued and trapped by an overwhelming force of Taliban/insurgent fighters.
There was a 4th option -- realizing their communications equipment was unreliable, and aborting the mission, they could have taken the hostages out with them to a point far enough away that by the time the Afghans made it back to warn the Taliban, our team could have been escaped or been extracted.
What it boils down to, is an incredibly bad decision on the part of the military command to send four men on a dangerous mission into a region where their communications equipment might be unreliable, and a total lack of coordination between extraction teams;choppers etc.
Marcus Luttrel and his three dead buddies were the victims of P__s poor military equipment, planning and leadership.
No wonder we're losing this war!!