Washington Post – Security failures at multiple levels last month led to six missiles being flown across America for 36 hours without notice, U.S. Air Force sources show.
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Category Archives: Afghanistan
Afghanistan – The Taliban's Opium War
New Yorker – The difficulties and dangers of the poppy eradication program in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan – A double spring offensive
Economist – After a dreadful year in Afghanistan, a newly confident NATO is preparing itself to take on the Taliban. Success will be difficult, but not impossible.
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Afghanistan – On patrol with the Marines in Afghanistan
Daily Telegraph – British forces in Afghanistan have been fighting the Taliban at the strategic Kajaki dam this week. Film-maker Chris Terrill is spending a year with the Royal Marines and has just returned. Here, in a powerful dispatch, he tells how the soldiers, including one since killed in action, engaged the enemy
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Afghanistan – Conversations with the general
The Economist – The Economist’s defense correspondent visits British troops, including Royal Marines, in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan – NATO's failure portends a wider war
International Herald Tribune – Ahmed Rashid comments on the current state of affairs in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan – Return of the Taliban
Nearly 5 years after the Taliban were toppled, Al Qaeda and the Taliban continue to use Pakistan as a de facto base, virtual unchallenged and far out of America’s reach.
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Afghanistan – Taking the Fight to the Taliban
New York Times Magazine – The experience of American soldiers on the ground in Afghanistan shows what a counterinsurgency can, and cannot, do.
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Afghanistan – In the Land of the Taliban
New York Times Magazine – A journey through the tribal borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where drug smuggling, anger at warlords and age-old resentments could be preparing the way for a restoration of the radicals.
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US Marines – Iraq-Bound, Without Reservations
Washington Post – A look at the reserve’s 4th Civil Affairs Group as it prepares for its third tour in Iraq.
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Afghanistan – Air heads: Misperceptions and rivalries obscure air power's potential
Armed Forces International – William Arkin writes on the role that airpower played, and could have played, in the initial phases of the campaign in Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan – U.S. Airstrikes Rise In Afghanistan as Fighting Intensifies
Washington Post – Thomas Ricks notes as fighting in Afghanistan has intensified over the past three months, the U.S. military has conducted 340 airstrikes there, more than twice the 160 carried out in the much higher-profile war in Iraq, according to data from the Central Command, the U.S. military headquarters for the Middle East.
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Afghanistan – We Were Abandoned
Macleans – An elite unit of Canadian snipers went from standouts to outcasts — victims, many say, of a witch hunt driven by jealousy and fear.
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Afghanistan – US sets up £215m deal for Afghan arms – from Russia
Daily Telegraph – American defence officials have secretly requested a “prodigious quantity” of ammunition from Russia to supply the Afghan army in case a Democrat president takes over in Washington and pulls out US troops.
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Afghanistan – Navy's role in Afghanistan grows
Virginian Pilot – With the war in Iraq straining U.S. Army and Marine units, missions in Afghanistan are increasingly being turned over to the Navy and Air Force.
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