smallwarsjournal.com - 11/16/2008
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How Should the U.S. Execute a Surge in Afghanistan?
by Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Downey, Lieutenant Colonel Lee K. Grubbs, Commander Brian J. Malloy and Lieutenant Colonel Craig R. Wonson, Small Wars Journal
How Should the U.S. Execute a Surge in Afghanistan? (Full PDF Article)
In the fall ...
pajamasmedia.com - 11/14/2008
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pajamasmedia.com —
November 14, 2008 "THE WAR IS OVER AND
WE WON:" Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and
reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. "There's nothing going on. I'm with the 10th Mountain Division, ...
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opiniojuris.org - 11/17/2008
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opiniojuris.org —
Somali pirates strike again, this time hijacking a
Saudi-owned tanker off the coast of Kenya . The
running stand off with the hijacked ship carrying arms and a Ukrainian crew continues; Russia announces that it repelled an attack on a different ...
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Here There Bee (More) Pirates … and Might the ...
hotair.com - 11/14/2008
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hotair.com —
JD Johannes gives us a before-and-after look at
the Dora sector of Baghdad, pre-surge and current day.
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Video: The surge worked
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... SMALL WARS JOURNAL: How Should the U.S. Execute a Surge in Afghanistan? Michael Yon emails the link and adds: "Last time I was in Afghanistan, I mentioned an off-the-cuff number that we might need something like 50k more troops. . . . This 25-40k clearly will NOT BE ENOUGH. They pick that figure because that's all they are likely to get in their wildest dreams. Let's seal this in Iraq, and then we've got some troops!" How many troops can we support, logistically, in Afghanistan? ...
A Surge in Afghanistan
Ace of Spades HQ —
A Surge in Afghanistan A long analysis at Long War Journal. Executive Summary: The situation is far less succeptible to surge tactics due to Afghanistan having a larger population than Iraq (32 million versus Iraq's, what, 25 million?), and furthermore dispersed in small villages rather than concentrated in cities. There is no chance of achieving the doctrinal requirement of 20 insurgent troops (including indigenous forces) per 1000 of the population, even in the Pashtun areas. An optimistic projection of adding eight combat brigades (as opposed to the five surged in Iraq) ...
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pajamasmedia.com 11/16/2008 — November 16, 2008 SMALL WARS JOURNAL: How Should the U.S. Execute a Surge in Afghanistan? Michael Yon emails the link and adds: "Last time I was in Afghanistan, I mentioned an off-the-cuff number that we might need something like 50k more troops. . . ...
Afghanistan: The War Grows
michaelyon-online.com 12/8/2008 — Published: 08 December 2008 Zabul Province, Afghanistan While Americans sleep tight in their beds, this time of year U.S. soldiers sit shivering through the frigid, crystal clear nights at remote outposts in places most of us have never heard of ...
From The Department of "As If"
justoneminute.typepad.com 11/12/2008 — The WaPo looks at Obama's new stance on Afghanistan and delivers this laugh line: Some NATO military officials said enhanced U.S. leadership would be welcome, as long as it was not seen as a "takeover bid," said one senior European...
On the Front Lines in Afghanistan
pajamasmedia.com 12/14/2008 — The war in Afghanistan is, in many ways, just getting started. PJM presents exclusive reports from Michael Yon — our 21st century "Ernie Pyle" — who will be in the country through 2009.
In Time of War
michaelyon-online.com 11/10/2008 — 10 November 2008 The Iraq war is over. Barring the unforeseen, the darkest days are behind, though we are still losing soldiers to low-level fighting with enemies that are true “dead-enders.” Last month we lost seven Americans in combat in Iraq. ...
Obama's Afghanistan Dilemma: "Growing Dissent" On More Troops
huffingtonpost.com 12/10/2008 — No more than one year ago, it was widely assumed that the great foreign policy challenge facing the next president would be what to do with U.S. troops in Iraq. The surge had produced a unexpected geopolitical dilemma: was the reduction of violence ...
Pool of soldiers to deploy shrinking
usatoday.com 5/14/2009 — WASHINGTON — More soldiers have been unavailable for combat in the past year because of wounds or injuries than at any time since the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, shrinking the pool of soldiers ready for deployment to those conflicts, according ...
U.S. combat deaths hit low
usatoday.com 12/4/2008 — Eleven American servicemembers died in combat in the conflicts in November. Seven others died in non-hostile incidents. The highest monthly total for combat deaths in both wars was 129 in November 2004. Security in Iraq has improved dramatically over ...
Changing the Culture of Pentagon Contracting
thewashingtonnote.com 11/13/2008 —
Over the past five years, the ongoing U.S. military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought to the fore a host of challenges affecting America's armed forces. Few, however, have taken on greater prominence and touched on a wider array of ...
Shakedown
michaelyon-online.com 11/18/2008 — By Tim Lynch Printed with permission from: http://blog.freerangeinternational.com/ Afghanistan We had to make a run to Kabul last Friday to take some clients to the airport and to pick up new ones. The Jalalabad to Kabul road is considered very ...
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