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... miles away. I spent time out on the ground during May and June working with coalition units, tribal leaders and fighters engaged in the ... Punjabis are the foreigners here: al Qa'ida have been here 25 years and have married into the Pashtun hill-tribes to the point where it's ...

Blog post - Aug 29 2007 - 2:52am - 29 comments - 0 attachments

... the end result would have been much different. In June of 2003, I hired around 50 local nationals (Sunni) to provide security for ... the Sunni Resistance Elements which conduct about 25% of the attacks in Iraq, of which most are against the Iraqi ... attention to the article released in the last week here in SWJ concerning the rural vs urban insurgency concerning Diylal province--in ...

Journal Article - Dec 30 2011 - 6:26pm - 38 comments

... anything new was being tried other than to send another 25,000 troops into what had become a hopeless situation. In fact, the surge ... less than 115, and for 41 consecutive days, from May 4 to June 14, the 31-day moving sum was over 100. One way to put that number into ...

Blog post - Dec 25 2007 - 5:13am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... leader getting ready to assault the Colleville draw on 6 June 1944. Also Sean, your above post seems to assume that present and ... is also very generous in providing Afghan farmers with 25 kilogram bags of fertiliser, which have become the Taliban's preferred ...

Journal Article - Dec 22 2009 - 1:18pm - 38 comments