Posts Tagged ‘Petraeus’
Americans won’t accept ‘long slog’ in Afghanistan war, Gates says
Los Angeles Times | By Julian E. Barnes | July 19, 2009 The Defense secretary says forces must show progress in a year or risk losing public support -- especially as casualties mount with at least 50 U.S. and NATO deaths in July, the deadliest month yet. Reporting from Washington -- After eight years, U.S.-led forces must show progress in [...]
A Short History of the “Af/Pak” War: A Folly Built on Lies More Outrageous than Iraq
Britain must tell Obama: the alliance of denial has to end Brown can salvage the diplomatic disgrace of Afghanistan if he acts as he is known to believe, and sets a withdrawal date Simon Jenkins guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 July 2009 21.00 BST Article history Diplomacy, your hour has come. There is no way soldiers will [...]
America’s Information War on Iran
The Persian Ploy by Jeff Huber, July 14, 2009 A July 5 story by David Sanger of the New York Times typifies how completely our mainstream media have been bulldozed by the warmongery’s propaganda machine. "Despite Crisis, Policy on Iran Is Engagement" states that "the accelerating crackdown on opposition leaders in Iran" will not [...]
America’s European Allies Deputed to Sow Discord Among Islamic Scholars
Translated from Urdu Sunday 12 July 2009 | By Saifullah Khalid Plan Ready to Deal with Taleban by Promoting Sectarianism To achieve their objectives America and her allies want to create an "Iraq style" situation in Pakistan also. Three hundred Pakistani and a hundred Islamic scholars (`ulama) called to London. The British Foreign Secretary's [...]
Petraeus Changes Obama’s “Af/Pak” Strategy: From Counterterrorism to Counterinsurgency
When Did The Af/Pak Policy Change? From Newshoggers | By Steve Hynd One of these things is not like the other. Back in March, President Obama set out the broad outlines of his Af/Pak policy. One of the bright lines was supposedly that US forces in Afghanistan were not there to engage in long-term nation building. The US most definitely [...]
More on the US Army Counterinsurgency Field Manual
Robert Haddick of Small Wars Journal, a former U.S. Marine Corps officer, who writes at Westhawk and The American, has posted a long article (reproduced in full below), that provides important information on the US Army Field Manual on Counterinsurgency (see earlier post with a summary of the Manual, and another post with critical remarks on its [...]
US “Trainers” and Funds for the War in Pakistan
In executing the Obama administration's plan to expand the war in Afghanistan across international borders to Pakistan (hence "Af/Pak" war), two major bureaucratic shifts are being worked out: In pursuit of a comprehensive ("all government") approach to the war, much of the traditional responsibility for diplomacy, and military and economic [...]
Seuddeutsche on the Changes in the US Afghanistan Command
Afghanistan: This is Now Obama's War Das ist non Obama Krieg R. Klüver und P. Blechschmidt (Rough Translation from the German) U.S. President Obama changes the command structure and strategy in Afghanistan -- reminiscent of his predecessors, Lincoln and Truman. With the abrupt dismissal of the supreme commander of the armed [...]
US Afghan Commander Gen. McKiernan Fired
An earlier post had reported on US Defense Department's move towards greater control of command in the Afghanistan-Pakistan theatre. On 11 May 2009, the New York Times reported the next step in this process, the replacement of Gen. David McKiernan, head of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) as well as the Commander of US Forces [...]
