This incident may be a bad omen. The Taliban may be behind this awful shooting. The NYT reports that the soldiers had taken off their body armor and helmets
never thinking that they would be attacked by one of the men they lived and worked with, said a local provincial official.
The Times also noted a similar [...]
An excerpt from my International Affairs Forum interview with Dr. Seth Jones, from RAND, in May on Afghanistan:
International Affairs Forum: In your 2008 Rand study on counterinsurgency in Afghanistan, you recommended that indigenous capacity in both the government and security forces is key to the counterinsurgency success. So how does General McChrystal’s leadership affect the [...]
The decision reflects a belief that the war in Afghanistan has grown so complex that it needs a commander drawn from the military’s unconventional warfare branch.
(Gates and McKiernan in Afghanistan 09May8: the end of the road for McKiernan/NYT photo)
General McKiernan is out. Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal is in. So a Lt. General is replacing a [...]
An LA Times Op-Ed piece today discusses David Kilcullen’s comments at a Congressional hearing on April 23; specifically, his thoughts on the use of drones in Pakistan. Kilcullen, the Australian counterinsurgency expert and senior advisor to General Petraeus, said, “we need to call off the drones.”
Kilcullen believes the drones the CIA are using in Pakistan [...]
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