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... The Afghan Imperative - David Brooks, New York Times opinion. Always ...

Blog post - Sep 25 2009 - 3:37am - 4 comments - 0 attachments

... is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for thinking, which helps the possessor to draw correct ... the causative role of American drug policy, or analyses of Afghan politics that treat our role as if we are intervening in support of a ...

Blog post - Dec 6 2011 - 10:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... Guns or butter, the age-old question. Editor's ... "eating my lunch" per the proverbial American. As the Afghan war wraps up, the issue is: why give anything to the guys who we gave ...

Blog post - Apr 23 2012 - 12:04pm - 25 comments - 0 attachments

... My Foreign Policy column discusses the strategic implications of this week's massacre in Panjwai, Afghanistan. ... on March 11 in Panjwai, near Kandahar, that left 16 Afghan civilians dead. The alleged shooter, a 38-year-old U.S. Army staff ...

Blog post - Mar 16 2012 - 6:21pm - 44 comments - 0 attachments

... for today's SWJ news and opinion roundup and links to the USNI Daily and Real Clear World. ... Is in Peril - NYT A US Soldier ... and the Afghan Soldier Who Killed Him - S&S France: Hollande Backtracks ...

Blog post - May 16 2012 - 4:04am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... and Assistance Team (CAAT) Special Report Download the Full Report: Partnering: A Counterinsurgency Imperative As ... (GIRoA) faces two daunting tasks: protecting the Afghan population and defeating the insurgency that challenges its sovereignty. ...

Journal Article - Nov 22 2010 - 3:13pm - 0 comments

... Grant Martin offers his thoughts on the rewrite of FM 3-24 and more realistic and sustainable COIN efforts. ... controlled, no matter how many Afghans you bribe into the Afghan Peace-through-Reintegration program (another reincarnation of failed DDR ...

Journal Article - Mar 12 2012 - 5:02am - 24 comments

... and military historians have written prolifically on the topic of an American way of war.  With U.S. troops leaving Iraq and ... to say “Global War on Terror.” From 2003 forward (the Afghan conflict from 2001-2003 was indeed a small-scale UW campaign that did ...

Journal Article - Nov 17 2011 - 9:17am - 9 comments

... It's the Tribes? That's Stupid. - Lieutenant Colonel John Malevich, Canadian Army ... that you have not yet engaged. I was chatting with a young Afghan who, full of Pashtun bravado said to me "westerners were from a feminine ...

Blog post - Mar 12 2010 - 5:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... As we look toward a combat exit, how to sustain the advisory effort? President Obama’s ... home front.  Most important, this pact assuages Afghan fears of repeat abandonment and signals to the Taliban that their ...

Journal Article - May 4 2012 - 4:48am - 3 comments