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... has agreed to release an unclassified version of the ISAF Campaign plan specifically for posting on Small Wars Journal. Things I ...

Blog entry - Nov 19 2008 - 12:50pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

... - GIRoA continues to disagree with the way IJC/ISAF is prosecuting their COIN. As ISAF transitions to GIRoA-led, these ... political-diplomatic strategy and lash it up with the ISAF campaign plan; 3. It is likely to be a very complicated political solution ...

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

... years. In Afghanistan, we have only just begun the proper campaign with adequate troops. The troop levels never even approached an ... wants done in AFPAK region. The Means for doing this are ISAF. To find the Ways we need only look to the ISAF Mission statement; and ...

Blog entry - Jan 12 2011 - 7:44am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

... or only just being addressed. For example: 1. NATO/ISAF forces have not been properly resourced until late in the piece in ... took over in late 2003 he put into place a classic Coin campaign (this point is made by Don Wright et al in their new CSI book on ...

Blog entry - Sep 16 2010 - 11:47am - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... determine the alliance end state, conduct the influence campaign now, make the decisions on how we are going to handle the remnants of ... a culture of poverty (paraphrased, but he was refering to ISAF under investing in the effort). Long ramble to point out one ...

Journal Article - Nov 30 2010 - 7:17pm - 54 comments

... vendettas? One man's vendetta is another man's political campaign. While I will be the first to agree that it seems unfair to have ... about an AOR like this. What were the expectations of ISAF and CJTF RC EAST that the BDE would accomplish? What was the CMD endstate ...

Blog entry - Jul 23 2009 - 11:06am - 52 comments - 0 attachments

... Won't Determine Afghan Drawdown - Reuters ISAF Operations Summary - AFPS   Pakistan US ... the FARC - CSM Venezuela: Gearing Up for Campaign, Chavez Boosts Spending - AP Venezuela: 2 More Years of ...

Blog entry - Dec 14 2011 - 2:07am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... Heard Near West Afghan NATO Compound - Reuters ISAF Operations Summary - AFPS Four Soldiers Killed in Kabul Convoy ... - VOA Pentagon Adds Phase for Afghanistan Campaign Medal - S&S   Pakistan Senators: ...

Blog entry - Nov 3 2011 - 2:55am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... the internal threat problem. Having IJC prosecute a COIN campaign inside Afghanistan that the host government and much of the populace ... will not come without the population-centric COIN with ISAF in strong kenetic support of ANSF (often times in the lead). As the ANSF ...

Blog entry - Jan 12 2011 - 8:49pm - 27 comments - 0 attachments

... neither a strategy for military intervention nor a campaign plan for deployed soldiers and will fail if mistaken for more than ... an organization. Insurgents in our AO knew that neither ISAF nor GIRoA would do anything against their narcotics crops but continued ...

Blog entry - Apr 18 2011 - 9:29am - 23 comments - 0 attachments