Posts Tagged ‘NATO’
Text of Obama’s Announcement Sacking McChrystal
The White House Blog | 23 June 2010 President Obama on Afghanistan, General McChrystal & General Petraeus Listen to Audio Transcript The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release | June 23, 2010 Statement by the President in the Rose Garden Rose Garden 1:43 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. [...]
Britain’s Top Afghan Diplomat Quits
Guardian | By Simon Tisdall | 21 June 2010 Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles: a casualty of Afghan policy war The British special envoy's scepticism about the US-led surge meant he had to go. Being proved right will be cold comfort. The sudden departure of Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Britain's special envoy to Afghanistan, represents another body blow [...]
US/ISAF Chain of Command in Afghanistan
By Arshad Zaman | 23 June 2010 The chain of command out of Afghanistan has sometimes perplexed analysts. The confusion arises because of a latent de facto US forces chain of command, that sails under the much publicised NATO flag as an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), of which the U.S. ostensibly is just one member. The solution [...]
The Rolling Stone Story that Got Gen. McChrystal Sacked
UPDATE: Obama kills two birds with one stone! 13:20 EST: McChrystal sacked, Petraeus to take over Had Gen. Colin Powell said of Bush what McChrystal said of Obama, would it have been called just "poor judgment"? McChrystal is no fool; he saw the Rolling Stone story in draft and cleared it for publication. Having failed in Marjah and [...]
German Officials: Things will not end well in Afghanistan; Taliban do not threaten the West
Spiegel Online | By Christoph Schwennicke | 18 June 2010 Germany's Mission in Afghanistan: Ex-Defense Officials Skeptical of Success The belief that things will end well in Afghanistan is dwindling in Germany. An increasing number of security experts recommend an orderly withdrawal and even those who were involved in sending the [...]
U.K. Soldiers Die as U.S. Troops Fight from Afar
Guardian | By Mark Townsend | 20 June 2010 Death rate of UK soldiers in Afghanistan 'four times higher' than US Rate is also twice that which qualifies as 'major conflict', according to analysis by Medical Research Council The rate at which British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan is almost four times that of their US counterparts, [...]
Afghan-Mujahideen Criticise Pakistan and Reject Taleban-ISI Link
Voice of Jihad | 15 June 2010 Response of the Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate in Reaction to the Maligning Report of th A Study Team of the London School of Economics has claimed in a report that the intelligence agency of Pakistan has been supporting the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan militarily and logistically. It has claimed [...]
By Marjah Failure, McChrystal Pushes Karzai into Taleban’s Arms
New York Times | By Dexter Filkins | 11 June 2010 Karzai Is Said to Doubt West Can Defeat Taliban “Mr. Karzai suggested in the meeting that it might have been the Americans who carried it out .” “Last winter, Mr. Karzai accused NATO in a speech of ferrying Taliban fighters around northern Afghanistan in helicopters. Earlier this year, [...]
Americans Failing to Suppress Afghan Resistance to Occupation
DefenseTech | By Greg Grant | 9 June 2010 The “Lone Guerrilla Paradox” and the Failure of COIN Doctrine in Afghanistan The New York Times runs a story today from reporter Rod Nordland in Kandahar about the shift in strategy there away from a military headlined offensive to more aid and reconstruction efforts, with a gradual increase [...]
Bogged Down, McChrystal Postpones the Helmand “Offensive”
New York Times | Editorial | 13 June 2010 Taking Stock in Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is trying to strike a secret deal with the Taliban and Pakistan and doubts that the Americans and NATO can ever defeat the insurgents. Karzai is telling aides that he believed the United States, and not the Taliban, might have been responsible [...]
