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... SWJ just received by e-mail this introductory edition of Kabul Direct . Dear Friend of Afghanistan (and to our foes too, should we ...

Blog entry - Oct 20 2007 - 6:04am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... is if his body will end up on a stake on the road from Kabul to Jalalabad or not in the transition. I can only assume he intends to ... Karzai refused to budge, according to two people with direct knowledge of the late October meeting. He insisted that Afghan police ...

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

... makes us madder, but if you drop bombs on Jallabad, or Kabul as the British did in 1919 after Amanullah Khan invaded Pakistan in order ... is also incredibly dangerous work, much more so than most direct action missions, so all my best to those on point working through the ...

Blog entry - Mar 12 2010 - 4:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... concerns over respect and honor; and besides, neither Kabul or Islamabad wants to extend governance to those spaces or popualces ... "People" individually. Nevertheless, if we are given direct access to *randomly-selected* People, we can wargame ("peace-game"?) ...

Blog entry - Feb 4 2011 - 4:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

... Gen McChrystal said he felt betrayed by U.S. ambassador to Kabul Karl Eikenberry. The general's aides mock Vice-President Joe Biden and ... apparatus). President Karzai is presently engaged in direct and indirect negotiations with select Taliban factions to exploit the ...

Blog entry - Jun 23 2010 - 5:04am - 89 comments - 0 attachments

... COIN and Creatively about Strategy Quote: "...The two Kabul-based Majors above are clearly nearly defeated by the complexity of the ... however, what they discovered is the real world isn't a direct reflection of FM 3-24 (and the FM states that). The FM is a start point, ...

Journal Article - Dec 14 2010 - 7:37pm - 83 comments

... in the U.S. Armed Forces today from Washington, D.C. to Kabul, Afghanistan. Download the Full Article: A Tale of Two Design ... they had found in their attempts to carry out COMISAF's direct orders. Was it just the natural barriers to change that every ...

Journal Article - Jul 7 2011 - 3:24pm - 75 comments

... goals the establishment of a viable national government in Kabul, complete with adequate security forces and sustainable development ... own personal wealth and power, and laying down arms is a direct contradiction of their aims. Who thinks Siraj Haqqani wants a job in ...

Blog entry - Feb 8 2010 - 1:36pm - 79 comments - 0 attachments

... noted above -- which today seem to underpin and direct our thinking and our actions (and which, likewise, would seem to ... Afghans responded reasonably well to Taliban attacks on Kabul and Kandahar in recent months with minimal U.S. support. As long as they ... has authority limited to about the city limit's of Kabul and that is it. Until there is a national acceptance of the legitimacy of ...

Journal Article - May 5 2011 - 8:01pm - 73 comments

... get the warlords off the backs of the people and get the Kabul kingpins off the backs of the people. All those contested villages ... with India. I know many say "no, there is no direct intel on this, and it is just the ISI doing this." Ok, so if it is just ...

Blog entry - Jul 18 2010 - 6:08am - 66 comments - 0 attachments