mcclatchydc.com - 1/12/2009
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DELARAM, Afghanistan On a sunset patrol here in late December, U.S. Marines spotted a Taliban unit trying to steal Afghan police vehicles at a checkpoint. In a flash, the Marines turned to pursue, driving off the main road and toward the gunfire coming from the mountain a half mile away. But ...
getafghanistanright.com - 1/12/2009
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getafghanistanright.com —
Get Afghanistan Right Week posted on January 12th,
2009 by Jason Rosenbaum at The Seminal As you...
may have noticed or may have heard, The Seminal has a new project that is going public this week. Along with fellow bloggers, journalists, and ...
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Get Afghanistan Right!
washingtonindependent.com - 1/12/2009
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Today a cohort of progressive bloggers unveils a
new effort against the planned 20,000-troop increase of U.S....
forces in Afghanistan. A website called GetAfghanistanRight, set up by bloggers at the Seminal and Brave New Films — and with the ...
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GetAfghanistanRight.com
breitbart.com - 1/13/2009
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BAGHDAD (AP) - Vice President-elect Joe Biden told
Iraqi leaders Tuesday that the incoming U.S. administration is...
committed to a responsible troop withdrawal that does not endanger improvements in security, an Iraqi spokesman said. Biden delivered ...
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Iraq official: Biden affirms 'responsible' pullout
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Political Animal —
... 2% each. * At Obama's behest, Bush asked Congress today to release the second half of the $700 billion bailout. * Bernard Madoff is out on bail . * Bush had a largely uneventful press conference this morning, and will deliver a prime-time farewell on Thursday night. * Confirming what was already widely believed, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said today that he'll support Eric Holder's A.G. nomination. * Just because a strategy worked in Iraq doesn't mean it'll work in Afghanistan. * NYT : "Democrats are hoping to roll back a ...
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Upper Left —
...as presented by Nancy A. Youssef for McClatchy... Just how quickly the U.S. military can shift its weapons, tactics and mindset to Afghanistan after nearly seven years of training almost exclusively for Iraq is a major question as President-elect Barack Obama takes office promising to transfer combat units out of Iraq and into Afghanistan.…brings to mind some other ones. Like, for instance, how is it that we've been in Afghanistan longer than we've been in Iraq, with an ongoing commitment to the pursuit of Al Queda and the ...
Go heavy? Go light? Smash 'em from the air?
Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. —
... , writing in the Canadian Army Journal, regarding the Canadian use of their Leos in Afstan: Compare and contrast that with this piece from McClatchy, on the problems of using uparmored HMMWVs and MRAPs in Afghanistan . Tactics and equipment that were successful in Iraq pose real challenges when applied to the very complex terrain of Afghanistan. Over at Small Wars Journal, ...
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Here's Spencer Ackerman writing in the Washington Independent :
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weeklystandard.com 2/25/2009 — Senator McCain is just now delivering a speech at AEI on the war in Afghanistan. Some highlights:
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