Posts Tagged ‘Helmand’
The Marjah Offensive in Helmand
Times of India | Agencies | 8 February 2010 Big offensive builds up in Afghanistan, thousands flee KANDAHAR: A new and possibly decisive chapter of the Afghan war is unfolding. The US is preparing a major attack on the Taliban, the militants are being squeezed in their Pakistani sanctuaries, and the Afghan government is trying to draw them into [...]
Why are U.S., allies telling Taliban about coming offensive?
McClatchy Newspapers | By Jonathan S. Landay and Saeed Shah | 5 February 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands of U.S., British and Afghan troops are poised to launch the biggest offensive of the war in Afghanistan in a test of the Obama administration's new counterinsurgency strategy. Military operations usually are intended to catch [...]
Special forces assassins infiltrate Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan
Times Online | By Marie Colvin in Camp Bastion, Helmand | 7 February 2010 AMERICAN and British troops poised to assault the Taliban stronghold of Marjah have begun targeting insurgent leaders for assassination. Military sources said special forces had been infiltrating the town on “kinetic” missions — jargon for armed attacks. [...]
Pakistan Will Assist in “Reconciling” Afghan-Taleban to Karzai Government
Times | By Deborah Haynes | 25 January 2010 General David Petraeus: full transcript of interview with The Times Afghanistan It seems that the Pakistanis are talking at all levels to Afghan Taleban and President Karzai will be announcing this reconciliation plan for low to mid-level Taleban... It is really reintegration to be [...]
UAE Military Gears Up to Provide Greater Logistic Support to US/NATO “Af/Pak” War
Aviation Week | By Robert Wall | 22 December 2009 UAE C-17 Deal Advances LONDON — The United Arab Emirates plan to procure four Boeing C-17 airlifters has taken another step forward with the formal foreign military sale (FMS) notification now submitted to Congress for parts of the transaction. The FMS deal would cover the logistics element [...]
From a British Army Hospital in Helmand, Afghanistan
Telegraph | 3 November 2009 British medics in Afghanistan see more traumas than UK hospitals put together British medics in Afghanistan are seeing more major trauma cases every day than all the UK hospitals put together, the colonel in charge of the main field hospital in Helmand said. Many of the injured have lost limbs after being caught by [...]
Afghan War Could Last for Decades — British Defence Minister
Mail Online | By Kirsty Walker | 3 August 2009 Afghan war could last 'for decades': We underestimated the Taliban, says Minister The Taliban were underestimated by the nations fighting them in Afghanistan, the Defence Minister admitted yesterday. Bill Rammell said the 'challenge from insurgents in Helmand province is greater than we [...]
Iraq Veterans Find Afghan Enemy Even Bolder
New York Times | By Richard A. Oppel Jr. | Published: July 25, 2009 NAWA, Afghanistan — In three combat tours in Anbar Province, Marine Sgt. Jacob Tambunga fought the deadliest insurgents in Iraq. But he says he never encountered an enemy as tenacious as what he saw immediately after arriving at this outpost in Helmand Province in [...]
“The troops are tired; the American people are tired.” — Gates
WSWS.org | By James Cogan | 22 July 2009 July casualties highest of Afghan war The determination of the Obama administration to escalate its neo-colonial war in Afghanistan has led to a sharp increase in the casualties for both US and NATO troops. The Taliban and other insurgent movements are responding with daily guerilla attacks on the [...]
“Honestly, Afghanistan is not a winnable war”
Cato Institute | By Malou Innocent | Huffington Post, 20 July 2009 Afghanistan: The Deadliest Month and It's Time to Get Out "emaining in Afghanistan is more likely to tarnish America's reputation and undermine U.S. security than would withdrawal." July has been the deadliest month yet for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. At least 27 troops [...]
