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... The Next Surge: Counterbureaucracy - Jonathan J. Vaccaro, New York Times ... detachment of the United States Army stationed in eastern Afghanistan, for help. Mindful of orders to protect the civilian population, we ...

Blog entry - Dec 8 2009 - 5:40am - 22 comments - 0 attachments

... The Unnoticed Surge in Afghan Security by Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell IV, ... is the Commanding General of NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan . The Unnoticed Surge in Afghan ...

Blog entry - Feb 15 2011 - 7:58am - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ...

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

... As The Iraq War Ends, Reassessing The U.S. Surge by Tom Bowman, NPR. ... The surge didn't (at least yet) have the same effect in Afghanistan for a number of reasons, why? While D. Ollivant would ...

Blog entry - Dec 17 2011 - 1:47pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments

... The Civilian Surge Myth - Steven Metz, The New Republic . How can we snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in Afghanistan? There's one solution that has attracted analysts of all stripes: a ...

Blog entry - Oct 20 2009 - 9:23am - 7 comments - 0 attachments

... A counterinsurgency strategy based on the now-famous Field Manual 3-24, written under the auspices of then-LTGs David ... deepening bilateral trust than on applying the lessons of Afghanistan and Iraq to Mexico. The level of violence perpetrated by or on ...

Journal Article - Dec 27 2011 - 5:10am - 42 comments

... Owen British Army Review, Spring 2011 Download the Full Article: Killing Your Way to Control The population is not ... sophistry you mentioned in your article) - we are in Afghanistan to defeat an armed opposition to the government. (The take away ...

Blog entry - Jul 5 2011 - 8:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... Feb 2011 According to a just-released article in the Washington Post , U.S. officials have confirmed that Raymond Davis is a ... to fully cooperate with the U.S. campaign plan in Afghanistan. The U.S. government no doubt already knows that its ability to ...

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

... Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say by David Wood, Politics Daily . BLUF: "Experts on ... officers, analysts and academics, are pushing to have the U.S. mission in Afghanistan significantly narrowed in scope. Their message, ...

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

... It's the Tribes? That's Stupid. - Lieutenant Colonel John Malevich, Canadian Army ... my Pashtun friend! In our ninth year of insurgency in Afghanistan it seems that we are turning to romantic notions and silver bullets ...

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