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julescrittenden.com - 1/6/2009
Infidels Quagmired!
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Just ask the Taliban. They slayed more than 5,000 of the hated Crusaders in righteous battle last year. AP: KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban has long exaggerated its military successes, but its recent claim that it killed more than 5,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan last year may be the ...
foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009
Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Afghanistan Edition
— foreignpolicy.com — or the past five years, the fight in Afghanistan has been hobbled by strategic drift, conflicting tactics,... and too few troops. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, got it right when he bluntly told the U.S. Congress in 2007, ... (more) Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Afghanistan Edition

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michaelyon-online.com - 1/9/2009
Red Flag
— michaelyon-online.com — A missive arrived to me from a well-placed British officer. I know this officer well, and respect... his abilities. He has been to both Iraq and Afghanistan. In part, the missive said: “Please have a look at the attached from the UK Times.  ... (more) Red Flag

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Afghan Quagmire
nytimes.com - 1/6/2009
Op-Ed Columnist: The Afghan Quagmire
— nytimes.com — The time to go all out in Afghanistan was in the immediate aftermath of the 2001 terror... attacks. That time has passed. > (more) Op-Ed Columnist: The Afghan Quagmire

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Instapundit:  JULES CRITTENDEN OFFERS advice to the Taliban on how to refine their information-warfare techniques….

Ace of Spades HQ:  Taliban Learns All the Right Lessons from Iraq: Now Demanding Tribes Hand Over Young Women to Be Their "Fighters'" Wives/Rape-Slaves

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JULES CRITTENDEN OFFERS advice to the Taliban on how to refine their information-warfare techniques….
Instapundit — JULES CRITTENDEN OFFERS advice to the Taliban on how to refine their information-warfare techniques.

Taliban Learns All the Right Lessons from Iraq: Now Demanding Tribes Hand Over Young Women to Be Their "Fighters'" Wives/Rape-Slaves
Ace of Spades HQ — ... war with al Qaeda groups. In addition to burning down schools for girls and killing those who teach girls, the Taliban are also ordering women to stay away from markets, or working outside the home, unless they have a male escort from their family. These are the same attitudes that turned the Sunni Arab tribes against al Qaeda in Iraq, and is doing the same thing among the Pushtun tribes on both sides of the Afghan border. Perhaps they just think they deserve a bit of Teenager Rape. After all, according to their count, they killed ...

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