michaelyon-online.com - 3/12/2009
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12 March 2009 There is dispute whether the testimony to the British House of Commons regarding the Afghan National Army is correct. Part of that testimony was published on my site yesterday. Colonel Bill Hix emailed to me from Afghanistan with an on-the-ground view. It is important to note ...
mudvillegazette.com - 3/8/2009
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Remember the Iraq drawdown you heard about last
month? The one where a Brigade originally scheduled for...
Iraq was going to Afghanistan instead? Well, a funny thing about that... Last weekend we noted this obscure bit of news from ABC: Gen. Odierno will receive a Stryker Brigade to replace ...
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michaelyon-online.com - 3/10/2009
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The Pathetic Afghan Army & Will Obama Fumble
Iraq? 11 March 2009 The disconnect between reporting and...
reality on Iraq was dramatic during 2005. Media stories about the incompetence and hopelessness of the Iraqi army and police were like the soup ...
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The Pathetic Afghan Army & Will Obama Fumble Iraq?
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Michael Yon: Afghan Army
Victory Caucus -- All Content —
... The combat support and service support battalions are lagging for a variety of reasons, including an absence of branch schools [much of their training comes from the advisor teams embedded with them, on the job training, and mobile training and regional training teams] and the propensity of commanders to use them as infantry due in part to over tasking and inadequate numbers mentioned above.br /br /-In November 2008, the brigade in Zabul province mounted an independent, read ...
Afghan Army bigger, better than advertised
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... by British military leadership on the status of the Af-Pak war, as Michael calls it, but discovers that some estimations of Afghan capability are outdated . The prevailing view of native Afghan security forces is that they are few in number, lack capability, and at least in the police forces, hopelessly corrupt. One of Michael’s correspondents from the theater says that none of that is true: The assertions on ANA unit independence are incorrect. As well, the ANA is larger than stated in the article, but was only recently authorized by the Bonn Accord constituted Joint ...
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Afghanistan Regional Commands and Provincial Reconstruction Teams.
The Afghan National Police continues to lag behind the Afghan National Army in its readiness to take on its duties without outside help. Most Afghan police ...
More Troops for Afghanistan
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McCain on Afghanistan at AEI
weeklystandard.com 2/25/2009 — Senator McCain is just now delivering a speech at AEI on the war in Afghanistan. Some highlights:
"Success is possible in Afghanistan. Afghans reject the Taliban. Just 4 percent of Afghans wish them to rule the country, and they rate the Taliban ...
Troop Surge in Afghanistan Means No Progressive Consensus
dailykos.com 2/21/2009 — President Barack Obama's Tuesday announcement that the U.S. will be adding 17,000 fresh troops to those already fighting in Afghanistan upended hopes among some progressives that the 60-day policy review he announced February 10 would be completed ...
Get Afghanistan Right
dailykos.com 1/13/2009 — An ad hoc group of bloggers has come together for the purpose of opposing a U.S.-led escalation in Afghanistan that is slated to double the number of American troops there. Organized by Alex Thurston at The Seminal and Robert Greenwald's ...
Kissinger: COIN Won’t Work/McCain: CT Won’t Work
outsidethebeltway.com 2/27/2009 — Within the last couple of days both Sen. John McCain and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger have offered contrasting strategies for Afghanistan. John McCain’s plan was explained in a speech before the American Enterprise Institute and ...
What, I Was Serious?
windsofchange.net 1/15/2009 — I saw this the other day, and waited for it to get picked up and commented on. It wasn't, so I'll raise it here.
Here's Spencer Ackerman writing in the Washington Independent :
Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a new effort against ...
The Cost Of A COIN War In Afghanistan
newshoggers.com 3/19/2009 — By Steve Hynd
It's apparently a taboo subject - no-one wants to talk about how much a COIN war in Afghanistan will cost or even how long it will last. Conservatives simply don't want to "lose" and don't seem to care about the costs, while ...
Obama to Deploy 2 More Brigades to Afghanistan
briefingroom.thehill.com 2/20/2009 — President Barack Obama announced Tuesday that he is sending two more troop brigades to Afghanistan.
Obama said in a statement that the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan "demands argent attention and swift action."
"The Taliban is resurgent in ...
Obama announces Iraq, Afghanistan ambassadors —
CNN Political Ticker 3/11/2009
(CNN) – President Obama nominated two seasoned veterans Wednesday to serve as U.S. ambassadors to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Obama announced that Christopher Hill would be his nominee for U.S. ambassador to Iraq, while Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry was picked ...
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