‘From the Imperium’ Archives
Robert Gates and Michael Mullen on David Cameron, Pakistan, and the ISI
U.S. Military, Joint Chiefs of Staff | 29 July 2010 Pentagon Press Conference As Delivered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense , Pentagon Briefing Room Thursday, July 29, 2010 EXCERPT Q: British Prime Minister David Cameron said today that he can’t tolerate the idea [...]
“Afghanistan is getting more dangerous by the month”
MSNBC | By Evan Vucci, Photojournalist, AP | 22 July 2010 'We don't have enough power to fight' Three weeks into the fight in the volatile Arghandab Valley, an American platoon of the Army's 101st Airborne Division is heading to the rear, weakened by horrific war injuries and unable to continue its mission. The platoon -- 1st platoon, Alpha [...]
German drone pilots eye Afghanistan… from Israel
CNBC | 27 July 2010 EIN SHEMER AIR BASE, Israel - As World War Two raged in the years before Israel's founding, colonial British planes were scrambled here to fend off German forces. Now the German Luftwaffe is back, preparing for a far more remote fight with the modern equipment and expertise of the Jewish state established after [...]
The Daniel Ellsberg Moment: Wikileaks Reveals War Crimes, Lies, and Cover-Up in the Af/Pak War
Wikileaks on Sunday published more than 90,000 documents, which cover a period from January 2004 to December 2009, containing classified information about the war in Afghanistan. Wikileaks posted the documents directly to its site, and provided them in advance to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Germany's Der Spiegel, all of which ran [...]
QRC (ERMP-UAS) Detachment to Provide Continuous Persistent Surveillance in Afghanistan
Clarksville Online | 22 July 2010 By 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment Public Affairs UAV company to wear USASOC patch Fort Huachuca, AZ – At a modest ceremony in a hangar at Libby Army Airfield July 19th, a monumental moment transpired in the field of Army Special Operations Aviation. The Quick Reaction Capability 2, an [...]
Taliban: 2 U.S. soldiers captured in Afghanistan
MSNBC | 24 July 2010 NATO says search underway for 2 missing service men KABUL — Two U.S. troops are missing in eastern Afghanistan, a military official said Saturday. An Afghan official said one may have been killed and the other captured by the Taliban. Also, five American troops died Saturday in bombings in the south where [...]
U.S. Special Operations Forces Operating in Civilian Garb in Pakistan
Wall Street Journal | By Julian E. Barnes | 20 July 2010 U.S. Forces Step Up Pakistan Presence WASHINGTON—U.S. Special Operations Forces have begun venturing out with Pakistani forces on aid projects, deepening the American role in the effort to defeat Islamist militants in Pakistani territory that has been off limits to U.S. ground [...]
Americans to hold “Burn a Koran Day” on 11 September 2010
Southern Poverty Law Center | By Alexander Zaitchik | 22 July 2010 Coming Soon: 'International Burn a Koran Day' After years of having the field all to himself, Westboro Baptist Church leader and gay-basher extraordinaire Fred Phelps might finally have some competition for the title of America’s most media-hungry hate-church [...]
C. Christine Fair: The Taliban are good at providing justice
You Tube | 10 December 2009 At a hearing, held on 9 December 2009, of the U.S. Congress OGR Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, Professor C. Christine Fair, of the Center for Peace and Security Studies, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. paid an important if unusual [...]
Haass: We’re losing this unnecessary war
Newsweek | By Richard Haass | 18 July 2010 We’re Not Winning. It’s Not Worth It. Here’s how to draw down in Afghanistan. GOP chairman Michael Steele was blasted by fellow Republicans recently for describing Afghanistan as “a war of Obama’s choosing,” and suggesting that the United States would fail there as had many [...]
