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Taylor Marsh: Troop Increase Looks Likely for Afghanistan
Weekly Standard Blog: Biden Team Drafts Its Own Counterterrorism Strategy After Defense Dept. Declines
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RT @blakehounshell: WSJ says Obama has rejected CT approach but not necessarily on board for full-on CI http://bit.ly/1fwqTh 10/26/2009 |
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Not one Pentagon strategist supports Biden's proposal for status quo in Afghanistan: http://tinyurl.com/ylemwuw #tcot #gop 10/25/2009 |
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@jayrosen_nyu Obama to use hybrid strategy against Fox News in Afghanistan http://tinyurl.com/ylemwuw 10/25/2009 |
Troop Increase Looks Likely for Afghanistan
Taylor Marsh —
... NATO’s decision to endorse a broader effort in Afghanistan could be foreshadowing, as the narrower approach to Afghanistan, which Biden championed, shows all signs of being grounded. Gates was at the NATO briefing, which was also attended by Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
Via the Wall Street Journal:
Signs the White House is moving towards Gen. McChrystal’s view of the conflict mounted Friday as the 28 North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense ministers endorsed the commander’s counterinsurgency strategy and signaled ...
Troop Increase Looks Likely in Afghanistan
Taylor Marsh —
... NATO’s decision to endorse a broader effort in Afghanistan could be foreshadowing, as the narrower approach to Afghanistan, which Biden championed, shows all signs of being grounded. Gates was at the NATO briefing, which was also attended by Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
Via the Wall Street Journal:
Signs the White House is moving towards Gen. McChrystal’s view of the conflict mounted Friday as the 28 North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense ministers endorsed the commander’s counterinsurgency strategy and signaled ...
Afghanistan Up
JustOneMinute —
The WSJ reports that "Troop-Boost Plan Gains Backing" for Afghanistan. WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is moving toward a hybrid strategy in Afghanistan that would combine elements of both the troop-heavy approach sought by its top military commander and a narrower option backed by Vice President Joe Biden, a decision that could pave the way for thousands of new U.S. forces. However, it looks like a classic Obama split-the-difference approach: One scenario under consideration, according to an official familiar with the deliberations, calls for deploying 10,000 to 20,000 ...
Biden Team Drafts Its Own Counterterrorism Strategy After Defense Dept. Declines
Weekly Standard Blog —
... If you want to see just how little credence Vice President Joe Biden's plan for Afghanistan has inside military circles, look no further than this paragraph from an article written by Peter Spiegel and Yochi Dreazen for the Wall Street Journal: ...
Saturday reading: Hybrid
Ben Smith's Blog —
Corzine blankets the airwaves in Jersey.
Obama talks to Sarkozy and Medvedev, showing a united front.
He looks for a "hybrid" approach in Afghanistan.
Tony Podesta is a big deal these days.
Bloomberg smashes spending records.
The Times endorses him.
And Tracy Morgan speaks frankly.
Quote of the Day
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... s say Mr. Obama rejected a strictly counter-terror approach during White House deliberations in early October. One official said Pentagon strategists were asked to draft brief written arguments making the best case for each strategy, but the strategists had difficulties writing out a credible case for the counter-terror approach — prompting members of Mr. Biden’s staff to step in and write the document themselves .”
Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch - The What is CT Version?
democracyarsenal.org —
... This paragraph from an otherwise pretty fascinating article on Afghanistan in the Wall Street Journal this weekend left me completely and utterly gobsmacked: ...
Too Big to Fail?
Antiwar.com Original —
... ” on the Afghan War – that is, though no one ever says this, an Afghan mask over the American war. (Since the crucial factors he lays out for a successful counterinsurgency campaign are never likely to come into being, his, too, is a “less more”-style option.) Quagmires, Then and Now It’s quite possible, of course, that the president will choose a “ hybrid strategy ,” mixing and matching from this list. He might, for instance, up drone attacks in Pakistan, raise troop levels “modestly” ...
Too Big to Fail? Why All the President's Afghan Options Are Bad Ones
Commondreams.org Views —
... on the Afghan War -- that is, though no one ever says this, an Afghan mask over the American war. (Since the crucial factors he lays out for a successful counterinsurgency campaign are never likely to come into being, his, too, is a "less more"-style option.) Quagmires, Then and Now It's quite possible, of course, that the president will choose a "hybrid strategy," , mixing and matching from this list. He might, for instance, up drone attacks in Pakistan, raise troop levels "modestly" ...
