The war in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001. American forces, with support from the United Kingdom and the Afghan United Front, also known as the Northern United Front, launched what we know today as Operation Enduring Freedom. The United States would fight the first of two wars, the other in Iraq, but we would find out later. The goal of the invasion was to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking members of Al Qaeda. Then we had to eliminate the Taliban regime that was helping them. When the US military began using the Predator in the war in Afghanistan, it greatly affected the outcome of the war on terrorism. I believe that the war in Afghanistan must have been extremely difficult to fight, especially at the beginning, without the help of the armed forces. the Predator. The Soviets would have accepted this because, a few decades earlier, they had been fighting Afghan fighters for a period of ten years. With the mountainous landscape as their home ground, the Taliban insurgents had a huge advantage over the United States and its allied forces. Most of the Taliban fighters were trained by the same freedom fighters who were in conflict with the Soviets and therefore knew the region very well. The same insurgents used the element of surprise, using caves, to escape artillery shells and borage from various bombs to flush out and destroy enemy targets. When enemy targets could not be reached by artillery and/or bombs dropped by Allied bombers, Allied troops had to clear cave by cave to ensure that the area they were patrolling was safe and secure. My wife had a close friend who was in the Army Airborne who came back from two tours in Afghanistan and later Iraq, and who told all sorts of stories about going into caves. He said... middle of paper... Forces went on missions, they had more security knowing that the Predator was in front of them, behind them and even above them. The War on Terror is still not over; However, the United States has come a long way in weapons development. With the use of the Predator drone, America has made an impact in Afghanistan. We have proven that we are a force to be reckoned with. Warfare today is fought very differently than it was in the 1900s or even the 1940s. We are constantly faced with new technologies or, in Afghanistan, new terrain that we have not never seen before. With the development of the Predator drone, we have proven that we can combat them effectively, and without a high number of civilian deaths. The Predator drone was a turning point in Afghanistan for our troops; it is a formidable tool in the American military arsenal from which the troops have benefited.