AfPak Hands: Flopping?
It may be the top personnel priority of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs — but is the AfPak Hands program flopping? By Tom Ricks at his Foreign Policy blog Best Defense. BLUF: “Most striking was an internal survey of members done last August and September. Of the 127 then in Afghanistan, 99 responded. An overwhelming majority of respondents, a total of 80, gave the program a grade of 65 percent or less, which the survey states was the benchmark set for ‘program success.'”