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... as a nation, are having a crisis of honor. Last week the Attorney General nominee Judge Michael Mukasey refused to define ... this knowing full well the goatherders were loyal to the taliban and would immediately alert the approximately 250 taliban in the ...

Blog entry - Oct 31 2007 - 1:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... and opportunities, better allocate resources, and in the process, enhance our national defense. ... its crucial pre-OEF links to allies fighting against the Taliban), the current quagmire might have been avoided. But when a ...

Journal Article - Aug 1 2011 - 3:50pm - 7 comments

... 800 Words on the Last Year in Afghanistan by Major General Nick Carter, British ... enduring? Hardly. Will efforts in Kandahar defeat the Taliban influnce among their base supporters? Not likely. But he treated ...

Journal Article - Dec 13 2010 - 12:01pm - 3 comments

... it not think? Download the Full Article Author’s Note: Before readers pull their hair ... hit repeatedly over the head with it in 2007/2008 and the Taliban are today still using it when they want to. Actually Robbs' ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 11:30am - 79 comments

... Taliban and Hells Angels: Same Difference - Jason Thomas, The Interpreter. In many respects, the war against the Taliban is no ...

Blog entry - Jul 18 2010 - 6:08am - 66 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 ... in the coming years---it is already happening as the Taliban have built a solid ME drug smuggling conduit---just waiting for the ...

Blog entry - Dec 6 2011 - 9:05am - 68 comments - 0 attachments

... Path to Peace by Linda Robinson Download the Full Article: How Afghanistan Ends This paper presents a scenario ... and had pushed up into the fiercely independent and pro-Taliban mountain region bordering Afghanistan. A small element of U.S. ...

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

... A counterinsurgency strategy based on the now-famous Field Manual 3-24, written under the auspices of then-LTGs David ... (The Knights of Templar) arguing that, like the Taliban, they are motivated at least in part by religious fervor. [23]   ...

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

... The Great Myth: Counterinsurgency - Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. ... the newly minted Afghan National Army (ANA) to drive the Taliban out of the area and bring in good government. As the chopper ...

Blog entry - Jul 25 2010 - 3:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... Owen British Army Review, Spring 2011 Download the Full Article: Killing Your Way to Control The population is not ... means waging war against your own population. - The Taliban are poorly equipped and trained, so we should win every engagement. ...

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