Posts Tagged ‘ISAF’
Dutch Troops May Quit Afghanistan by August 2010
BBC | 20 February 2010 Dutch cabinet collapses in dispute over Afghanistan The Dutch government has collapsed over disagreements within the governing coalition on extending troop deployments in Afghanistan. After marathon talks, Christian Democratic Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende announced that the Labour Party was quitting the [...]
Text of the Secret Eikenberry Cables Advising Against the Surge in Afghanistan
New York Times | Undated (Probably 25 January 2010) Ambassador Eikenberry's Cables on U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan Jump to: Start of Post | Cable 1: COIN Strategy | Cable 2: Looking Beyond COIN In November 2009, Karl W. Eikenberry, the United States ambassador to Afghanistan and retired Army lieutenant general, sent two classified cables to [...]
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 [...]
McChrystal Criticises German Troops in Afghanistan
Deutsche Welle | 20 January 2010 Leading German lawmakers debate Afghanistan strategy Comment by the ISAF chief in Afghanistan on Germany's role in the war-torn region has sparked debate among top politicians on where its future tasks should lie. The opposition has called for a full withdrawal by 2015. The commander of international forces [...]
Belfast Telegraph: May God help our soldiers
Afghanistan has shown us the true horror of war By Gail Walker Tuesday, 14 July 2009 It’s probably true that the recent escalation in the death toll among British troops in Afghanistan has brought home to a new generation the true cost of war. Of course, for the many families of dead servicemen over the last 40 years — picked off in [...]
U.S. General McChrystal Wants More Troops
US commander in Afghanistan lobbies for more troops By James Cogan 14 July 2009 Less than six months after Barack Obama ordered 21,000 additional American soldiers to Afghanistan, and barely two weeks into the first major offensive by the reinforcements, General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed US commander, has launched a lobbying [...]
