JUNE 2, 2010 Strategy vs. Tactics in Afghanistan By ANN MARLOWE Gen. Stanley McChrystal has embraced Hamid Karzai as part of the Obama administration’s startling about-face on the Afghan president. Until recently, the Obama team seemed to understand that Mr. Karzai was “not an adequate strategic partner,” in the well-chosen words of our ambassador (and […]
APRIL 23, 2010 The Meaning of the Korengal Retreat By BING WEST In 2006, the United States sent a company of men into a sparsely populated, steep-sided valley called the Korengal in northeastern Afghanistan. It was part of a new counterinsurgency strategy aimed at stopping fighters from coming across the nearby Pakistan border and at
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April 9, 2010 By FOUAD AJAMI President Obama’s “war of necessity” in Afghanistan increasingly has to it the mark of a military campaign disconnected from a bigger political strategy. Yes, it is true, he “inherited” this war. But in his fashion he embraced it and held it up as a rebuke to the Iraq war.
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APRIL 10, 2010 By ANN MARLOWE Kabul ‘Americans should know that in the people of Afghanistan, you have a partner. Not all of our people will be as disgraceful as some of your beneficiaries.” Abdullah Abdullah is referring to an April 2 speech by President Hamid Karzai that shook up even the normally complacent Obama
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK APRIL 7, 2010 The Karzai Fiasco Echoes of Vietnam in a spat that only helps the Taliban. President Obama isn’t faring too well at converting enemies to friends, but he does seem to have a talent for turning friends into enemies. The latest spectacle is the all-too-public and counterproductive war of words
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Hello all- Another month has come and gone…thankfully. I sit here on Easter morning thinking about how busy of a month it was that we just completed. We had several air assault operations, village clearance missions, detainee operations, and project constructions. All in all Black Knight Troop, 3rd Platoon had a
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On December 30, in one of the deadliest attacks in CIA history, an Al Qaeda double agent schemed his way onto a U.S. base in Afghanistan and blew himself into the next life taking seven Americans with him. How could this have happened? Agency veteran, Robert Baer explains, offering searing new details about the attack
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Getting to Know You The U.S. military maps the human terrain of Afghanistan. BY Claudia Anderson In early 2003, a single American diplomat and more than 5,000 American troops were stationed in Kandahar, the second city of Afghanistan and the heart of former Taliban country. The troops mostly stayed on their base, penned off near
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The Strange Case of Mullah Baradar – Dana M. Perino and Bill Burck – The Corner on National Review Online http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmRjYmMyNGMwMGUyOWQwMTAyODBkMzZlYjgzOWMxMmY== Thanks to Marilyn Flanary for sharing this article
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