pajamasmedia.com - 1/9/2009
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SOME REPORTING ON AFGHANISTAN.
foreignpolicy.com - 1/5/2009
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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, ...
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Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Afghanistan Edition
usip.org - 1/8/2009
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usip.org —
Stability in Afghanistan Requires Fundamental U.S. Policy Shift
New USIP volume identifies weaknesses of early approaches, Outlines...
a vision for success going forward US policy toward Afghanistan will require a fundamental change in order to achieve ...
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Future of Afghanistan, the Book : Center for ...
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Illumination - Updated
Mudville Gazette —
... information warfare on CNN, and answers the question "why are the insurgents better at it than we are?" (Some background on the CNN/terrorist video he references - and al Qaeda's media strategy - here.)
And Afghanistan vet Troy Steward (who just welcomed his son home from a year in Afghanistan) offers a poll: "How would you handle Afghanistan if you were President?" Vote!
(And thanks, Glenn!)
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