The war in Afghanistan has been bogged down by military rules and regulations, with bureaucrats hamstringing the elite special operations forces, former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb charged in an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview.

“It’s a mess,” Webb said about the war that has been raging for more than 10 years.

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“We should have gone in and completely disrupted those networks and hit them hard with Special Operations and then looked at getting out of there.”

Webb was sent to Afghanistan immediately after 9/11 – even missing his son’s Nov. 30, 2001 birth. Now he has written “The Red Circle,” a book about being a SEAL sniper and training up the marksmen who followed him.

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