news.yahoo.com - 1/2/2009
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan The U.S. is preparing to pour at least 20,000 extra troops into southern Afghanistan to cope with a Taliban insurgency that is fiercer than NATO leaders expected. The new troops will augment the 12,500 NATO soldiers mainly British, Canadian and Dutch in what amounts to ...
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
longwarjournal.org - 12/28/2008
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longwarjournal.org —
Taliban suicide bombers struck on both sides of
the Durand Line, killing 51 and wounding score more
in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The suicide attack in Pakistan took place in the settled district of Buner in the insurgency-infested Northwest ...
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Taliban suicide bomber strike in Pakistan, Afghanistan
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Surging Over the Cracks In Afghanistan
Newshoggers.com —
... The Surge in Iraq essentially became a plan to bribe militants with guns and barrowloads of cash to not attack US troops and that left the core corruption, graft and incompetencies of the Iraqi government untouched and thus left the seeds of future conflict while temporarily tamping down violence to a level which would still horrify anyone West of Beirut. The planned surge in Afghanistan is likely ...
Surging Over the Cracks In Afghanistan
Crooks and Liars —
... The Surge in Iraq essentially became a plan to bribe militants with guns and barrowloads of cash to not attack US troops and that left the core corruption, graft and incompetencies of the Iraqi government untouched and thus left the seeds of future conflict while temporarily tamping down violence to a level which would still horrify anyone West of Beirut. The planned surge in Afghanistan is likely ...
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