Posts Tagged ‘US Military’
DoD Briefing on McChrystal and Petraeus
The Pentagon | 24 June 2010 Department of Defence Briefing “I do not believe we are bogged down” – Gates Source: The Pentagon Channel
Afghan strategy needs review
Irish Times | 25 June 2010 “After nine years of war, the Taliban simply remains too strongly entrenched for the US military to openly attack. The very people that counter-insurgency seeks to win over – the Afghan people – do not want us there. Our supposed ally, President Karzai, used his influence to delay the offensive, and the [...]
U.S. Defence Spending: Bang for the Buck, Zero
Antiwar | By William Pfaff | 23 June 2010 Runaway Defense Spending Not Winning Any Wars In Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq, the major places of military interest to the United States today (disregarding the hundreds of other places where American soldiers and agents or mercenaries have been dispatched to suppress one or another outbreak of [...]
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 [...]
Yemen: The Next Battlefield
alsharq alawsat | By Tariq Alhomayed | 21 June 2010 Just days after the Al Qaeda organization incited the Yemeni tribes against the Sana government; a new attack took place on Saturday, this time against a Yemeni intelligence headquarters in Aden. This is not to mention the large number of militants who have begun to gather in Yemen from [...]
Americans Testing Microwave Weapon to Roast the Taleban
Danger Room | By Noah Schachtman | 19 June 2010 U.S. Testing Pain Ray in Afghanistan (Updated Again) The U.S. mission in Afghanistan centers around swaying locals to its side. And there’s no better persuasion tool than an invisible pain ray that makes people feel like they’re on fire. OK, OK. Maybe that isn’t precisely the logic [...]
