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... An Afghan Headache - The Australian editorial. Washington wants closure, but ...

Blog entry - Sep 13 2009 - 10:25am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Half-Brother of Afghan President Karzai Assassinated , Voice of America . The half ... motorcade, killing one of his bodyguards. He also escaped an earlier attack on his provincial council facilities in Kandahar. ...

Blog entry - Jul 12 2011 - 10:05am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

... Obama's Afghan withdrawal speech may mark the end of the U.S. counterinsurgency ... through security and better governance -- is not done by an outside intervening power like the United States, but by the host country ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2011 - 12:30pm - 64 comments - 0 attachments

... what is important and what is distracting -- and that is an incredible burden on a senior leader." It is a burden and we have all ... and winning the loyalty and support of the multiverse of Afghan populaces, and do it without losing any of our guys, without killing any ...

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

... New Afghan War Headache: Not Enough Troops Available? - David Wood, Politics ... to note that in 1990-1991 the US was able to put together an impressive international coalition of Arab nations to expel Saddam from ...

Blog entry - Nov 6 2009 - 4:48pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... on destroying western culture and replacing it with an Islamic Caliph -- or Islamic government.  For centuries, insurgencies ... at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100803/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_taliban_conduct The Taliban, it seems, are learning about ...

Journal Article - Aug 3 2010 - 11:33am - 44 comments

... Repression Marked Gadhafi's Rule - VOA An Erratic Leader, Brutal and Defiant to the End - NYT Unpredictable ... - AP US Seen Struggling to Win Fight in Afghan East - Reuters ISAF Operations Summary - AFPS   ...

Blog entry - Oct 21 2011 - 2:30am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... a few snippets from the Obama administration's review of Afghan policy. According to the AFPS article , Gates said "Obama appears to ... Obama and his team are waiting until they come up with an answer to that dilemma, it is no longer a mystery why the review is taking ...

Blog entry - Nov 12 2009 - 4:51pm - 20 comments - 0 attachments

... of never-ending military engagements for anyplace we find an 'ungoverned space' or anywhere we find extremist elements which violently ... is a recent realization that we are not going to reform Afghan society and governance in the time we're likely to have and thus an ...

Journal Article - Aug 30 2009 - 3:56pm - 20 comments

... - AFPS Corruption Probe Ruffles U.S.-Afghan Relations - Associated Press Five More U.S. Soldiers Killed ... Ties With China - Reuters In Rural Thailand, an Unappeased Opposition Bides Its Time - New York Times Philippine ...

Blog entry - Sep 1 2010 - 4:30am - 0 comments - 0 attachments