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Bacevich: A New Cold War?
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
... Andrew Bacevich in an op-ed in the Washington Post proposes an alternative to conventional war or global counter-insurgency, an approach evocative of the Cold War policy of containment: ...
McClellan On The Hindu Kush
Jules Crittenden —
... : McChrystal report offically backburnered. Meanwhile, for tragi-comic relief, here’s Andrew Bacevich at the Washington Post : Let’s beat the Islamic extremists like we beat the Soviets. Never mind that nothing about this war resembles anything about that war, including the highly effective restraints of MAD, the nature of the conventional stand-off, the nature of the unconventional confrontation, vs. the insidious and indiscriminate nature of terrorist attacks, the nature of the opfor’s commitment, ideology, motivations and objectives. Bacevich advises standing off and ...
China and the Afghanistan/Pakistan/India Triangle
Newshoggers.com —
... Nor is a containment strategy against America's terrorist enemies, such as that suggested by Andrew Bacevitch today, likely to succeed without addressing the underlying motives for regional proxy feuds. The U.S. may not have much leverage with China nowadays, but whatever it has should be applied to defuse, in turn, Sino/Indian and Indo/Pakistan geopolitical rivalries. That's the only way there's ever going to be a chance of success in Afghanistan. Maybe the US should be testing the old adage that if you owe the bank $100 it owns you, but if you owe it $100 million, you own the ...
Andrew J. Bacevich: Turn the Hot War Into a Cold War
The Moderate Voice —
... Today, he has an op-ed in the Washington Post, laying out his ideas for a new approach toward Afghanistan. Here are the first three paragraphs: ...
