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... Tom Ricks on three things we need from Obama on Afghanistan - "corruption and abuses? - security problems in Pakistan? - U.S. ...

Blog entry - Nov 30 2009 - 6:41pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda ... the political effects that must be achieved; 2) emphasis on bottom-up measures that can produce momentum in the short term, and 3) a ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 10:22pm - 120 comments

... to fully cooperate with the U.S. campaign plan in Afghanistan. The U.S. government no doubt already knows that its ability to ... "Af-Pak" contemplates larger long-term diplomatic staffs on both sides of the border, which will include security force assistance ...

Blog entry - Feb 21 2011 - 2:00pm - 95 comments - 0 attachments

... of insurgency in Mexico with the drug cartels that's right on our border " on Monday at the Hinckley Institute of Politics . Westphal ... the thorn is removed from the Lion's paw. (Note, in Afghanistan currently we have created a "functional sanctuary" for the Karzai ...

Blog entry - Feb 9 2011 - 3:18pm - 37 comments - 0 attachments

... In a recent op-ed entitled “Germany has declared war on the eurozone,” the editor-at-large of the respected London Times ... could be simply unwilling to provide resources, as in Afghanistan, or it could actively undermine initiatives led or supported by the ...

Journal Article - Nov 29 2011 - 8:32am - 4 comments

... U.S. Military documents pertaining to the insurgency in Afghanistan has generated immense media and public interest and is being ... concerning unnecessarily placing troops in harm's way, on the one hand, combined with war crimes accusations, on the other, have only ...

Journal Article - Aug 15 2010 - 6:17am - 72 comments

... the World at the Library of Congress Veterans Forum on Friday August 14 at noon in room 139 on the first floor of the James Madison ... of honorable men and women have and are serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places. They don't get book deals and invited to lecture ...

Blog entry - Aug 12 2009 - 1:00pm - 67 comments - 0 attachments

... The latter may of course be important, depending on the mission, but those kinds of competencies must be premised on combined ... author hasn't quite got the lesson of the last years since Afghanistan: The US Army has to do both combined arms and ... Tomorrow, Ill go to church and talk to God about it. On Monday, Ill repeat the Serenity Prayer and head to the gym to sweat it out. ...

Journal Article - Apr 17 2010 - 6:59am - 65 comments

... is the available amount of information and the demand on time that presents," Admiral Fallon said. "With this 24/7, 365 demand cycle, ... saying that General P or O or M in today's wars in Iraq or Afghanistan have it harder than Ike and the invasion of the European Continent ...

Blog entry - Aug 12 2010 - 7:14pm - 62 comments - 0 attachments

... Kilcullen has written a seminal, if idiosyncratic, work on the theory and practice of counterinsurgency -- no doubt why some reviewers ... from an author well grounded in the realities of Iraq and Afghanistan, who is the leading theorist of counterinsurgency today... ...

Blog entry - May 7 2010 - 10:51am - 49 comments - 0 attachments