Missed Direction
Missed Direction: Washington is obsessed with U.S. progress in southern Afghanistan. But the real fight is in the east. National Journal article by Yochi Dreazen. BLUF: “… the real story is not in the south; it’s in the east. Senior officers increasingly believe that the conflict will be decided in the valleys and mountain ranges of eastern Afghanistan, a violent region that abuts some of Pakistan’s most unruly provinces.”