Posts Tagged ‘Special Operations’
American Paid Waziri Spies Guiding CIA Drone Strikes
Danger Room reports: Spy Chips Guiding CIA Drone Strikes, Locals Say By Noah Shachtman | June 1, 2009 (more...)
Pakistan to US: You secure your weapons, We’ll secure ours!
According to Dan Rivers of CNN, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbasof the Pakistan Army has said that: "many of the Taliban's arms are coming across the border from Afghanistan." When Rivers asked him "if that includes NATO weapons, as suggested in recent reports," he agreed. According to Rivers, "He says Washington is too focused on the safety of Pakistan's [...]
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 [...]
New Greater Balochistan Map
A May 2009 article, mainly on Gwadar, by Robert D. Kaplan, Pakistan's Fatal Shore, in The Atlantic, that is referenced on Baloch separatist websites (see here, for example), provides a map of "Greater Balochistan" that is probably reflective of the thinking of the "Balkanise Pakistan" lobby that is increasingly coming out into the [...]
Cheney’s “dark side” Quote
With recent revelations, it may be useful to revisit the famous Cheney "dark side" quote (widely available on the Internet). The following is from Reining in the Imperial Presidency: Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the Presidency of George W. Bush, January 2009, pp. 75-76, a report prepared at the direction of Rep. John Conyers, Jr., [...]
US Defence “Black” Budget for FY 2010 Crosses $50 billion Mark
In Ares, a defence technology blog hosted by Aviation Week, Bill Sweetman writes that the US Defence Department's "Black" Budget for FY 2010 rises over the $50 billion mark: "In the R-1 (research and development), P-1 (procurement) and O-1 (operations) budgets for 2010, just over $50 billion is listed for classified programs, the largest-ever [...]
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 [...]
