Posts Tagged ‘counterinsurgency’
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 [...]
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 [...]
Inside the U.S. Intelligence and Security Behemoth
Washington Post | By Dana Priest & William M. Arkin | 19 July 2010 Read the story below Part I | Part II-A | Part II-B | Part III Go To Washington Post Website to: Watch the Intro Video | See the Map | Explore Connections Find Companies | Search the Data I. A hidden world growing beyond control These are some of the findings [...]
Government doesn’t have confidence of Kashmiris: Indian Army Chief
Times of India | By | 11 July 2010 We've failed to build on the gains in Kashmir: Army chief NEW DELHI: The basic reason behind the flare up in the Kashmir Valley is the failure to build on the gains that had been made by the security forces in the troubled state, Indian Army Chief General V K Singh said Sunday. "The Kashmir situation has [...]
Why Afghanistan is a lost cause
San Francisco Chronicle | By Joel Brinkley | 11 July 2010 As Gen. David Petraeus assumed his new command in Afghanistan earlier this month, he took up a strategy that has already failed - though not for the reasons most people assume. Certainly, as most everyone knows, the battle plan appears hopeless. Every night in Marjah, Taliban [...]
The Mirror of 1776
Huffington Post | By David Bromwich | 3 July 2010 "Things are in the saddle,/ And ride mankind." The words were written by Emerson in a poem about the Mexican war--the first crisis that took America out of itself. The second such crisis was the Spanish-American war, and we are now in the middle of the third. The extent of our empire would [...]
Restrepo: A Look at the War in Afghanistan
Ares | By Paul McLeary | 6 July 2010 Update: See a critical review by Nick Turse During the 90 minutes it took for an invited audience to sit though a screening of Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington’s new documentary about the war in Afghanistan last Monday night, the Department of Defense announced the deaths of six more American [...]
Pravda on Petraeus’ COIN and Human Terrain Strategy
Pravda.ru | By John Stanton | 2 July 2010 General Petraeus’ Magic Bag: Human Terrain System & Covert Ops So General David Petraeus is back on the COIN campaign trail arguing that pacifying the Human Terrain (HT) is his number one priority. Petraeus’ model program for converting an indigenous human terrain that is opposed to US [...]
When the ‘Right War’ Goes Wrong
Antiwar | By William Pfaff | 30 June 2010 The increasingly dangerous Afghanistan situation is worth analysis at two levels, that of the war itself, the ultimately doomed attempt by the United States to conquer the Taliban insurrection and impose a pro-American government, and the domestic political effect of Barack Obama’s misguided decision [...]
Did McChrystal Run Away from a Losing War?
Consortium News | By Ray McGovern | 24 June 2010 Obama Misses the Afghan Exit Ramp Is President Barack Obama so dense that he could not see why Gen. Stanley McChrystal might actually have wanted to be fired — and rescued from the current March of Folly in Afghanistan, a mess much of his own making? McChrystal leaves behind a long trail [...]
