the-reaction.blogspot.com - 23 days ago
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Guest post by Jared Stancombe Jared Stancombe is a 2009 graduate of Indiana University, where his studies focused on peace and conflict studies in Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. His other academic interests include counterinsurgency and complex military operations. He is ...
online.wsj.com - 25 days ago
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YOCHI J. DREAZEN Sixteen American soldiers killed themselves
in October in the U.S. and on duty overseas,...
an unusually high monthly toll that is fueling concerns about the mental health of the nation's military personnel after more than eight years of ...
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Suicide Toll Fuels Worry That Army Is Strained
bnf.democracyinaction.org - 24 days ago
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Three months ago, The Seminal and Brave New
Foundation created a special blog fellowship focused on covering...
the war in Afghanistan and arguing against a military escalation in South Asia. Our fellow, Derrick Crowe, has worked tirelessly. Not only ...
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Keep the Anti-Escalation in Afghanistan Blog Fellowship ...
nytimes.com - 23 days ago
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nytimes.com —
WASHINGTON The nation’s top military officer said
Wednesday that he expected the Pentagon to ask Congress...
in the next few months for emergency financing to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though President Obama has pledged to end the ...
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Pentagon Expected to Request More War Funding
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Meeting Us in the Middle on Afghanistan
The Moderate Voice —
... Hamas, the Afghans are choosing the Taliban because they view the government as corrupt and unable to provide the basic needs and services they require. While ISAF forces are working hard to root out the insurgents, the government is full of corruption, which makes it unable to provide political solutions after stability operations are conducted. They are essentially unable to meet us in the middle, and, if they continue to fail, our efforts may be in vain.
(Cross-posted from The Reaction.)
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U.S. urges Karzai to make corruption arrests —
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Reuters: Politics 23 days ago
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