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34,000 More Troops for Afghanistan?
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SWJ Blog: Obama Leaning Toward 34,000 More Troops for Afghanistan - Jonathan S. Landay, John Walcott and Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers.President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and com (Read More)
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Two Cents About COIN by Ryan McCarl -- Antiwar.com
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COIN counterinsurgency - Google Blog Search: Success demands a comprehensive counterinsurgency (COIN) campaign." McChrystal and other American leaders calling for a "surge" of additional U.S. troops into Afghanistan to mirror the alleged success of the "surge" in Iraq are voicing ... (Read More)
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Unifying Civil and Military Counterinsurgency. - GU1337
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COIN counterinsurgency - Google Blog Search: The purpose of this study is to find ways to improve security for civil counterinsurgency (COIN)—essential human services, political reform, physical reconstruction, economic development, and indigenous capacity-building—in the face of ... (Read More)
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The Taliban’s Political Program
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SWJ Blog: The Taliban’s Political Program - Dan Green, Armed Forces Journal.At their core, insurgencies are about political power struggles, usually between a central government and those who reject its authority, where the objective of the conflict is the population itself and the political right to lead it.Thus, the center of gravi (Read More)
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Transnational Terror: Lashkar-e-Taiba’s Chicago Plot
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Counterterrorism Blog: Three names have been doing the rounds in India these days: Maulana Ilyas Kashmiri, David Coleman Headley (a.k.a Dauod Geelani) and Tahawur Hussein Rana; one hard core veteran Jehadi and two motivated ‘would be’ terrorists. They are in the news for plotting major assaults in India. Among them, Ilyas Kashmiri who was rumore (Read More)
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Not Enough Troops Available?
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SWJ Blog: New Afghan War Headache: Not Enough Troops Available? - David Wood, Politics Daily.Beneath Washington's political squabbling over a new war strategy for Afghanistan is a deeper concern, this one among the Pentagon's war planners: not enough troops to go around. It's easy to overlook in Washington, but the Army still has alm (Read More)
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Afghanistan: Connecting Assumptions and Strategy
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SWJ Blog: Afghanistan: Connecting Assumptions and Strategy - Colonel T. X. Hammes, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), Major William S. McCallister, U.S. Army (Retired), and Colonel John M. Collins, U.S. Army (Retired), Proceedings.Three well-known military thinkers re-evaluate what we've assumed to know—that just wasn't so—about a country (Read More)
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The Horror, the Horror: Afghanistan Edition
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SWJ Blog: The Horror, the Horror: Afghanistan EditionBy Judah GrunsteinCross-posted at World Politics ReviewA paper by Maj. Jim Gant, titled, "One Tribe at a Time" (.pdf), has been getting all sorts of attention since it ran on Steven Pressman's site a few weeks back. I finally got down to reading it last night after Andrew Exum flag (Read More)
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Start A War
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Informed Comment: Global Affairs: A new piece on Swat/Waziristan/Baluchistan and the current Pakistani military operation is up at The Review.The true crisis facing Pakistan is not the Taliban: it is the rupture between the federal state and its constituent parts, and Islamabad’s refusal to accede to the legitimate needs and demands of its citizens in place (Read More)
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Going Tribal in Afghanistan
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SWJ Blog: Going Tribal in Afghanistan - James Dao, New York Times.In Washington, the debate over Afghanistan seems to center around two broad ideas: counterinsurgency versus counterterrorism. Should the United States add troops for a more population-centric strategy, as Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal advocates? Or should it use a less gr (Read More)
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Taliban calendar with suicide bombers’ portraits found in Pakistan
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Thaindian News: Islamabad, Nov 6 (IANS) A calendar showing portraits of Taliban suicide bombers and children involved in terror activities has been found during the army assault in South Waziristan, a media report said Friday.Security forces found the calendar showing portraits of suicide bombers from a madrassa in Spankai area during Oper (Read More)
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The UN pull personnel from Afghansitan
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Opposed Systems Design: The UN pulls 600 staff out of Afghanistan after the Taliban attacked them.“The United Nations is fully committed to helping all of Afghanistan’s people, as it has been for more than half a century,” the statement said.If the UN his fully committed to helping the Afghan people, how many casualties is the UN willing to [...] (Read More)
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Memo to Obama: Listen to Jim Gant or Risk Losing Afghan War
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Counterterrorism Blog: Green Beret hero Maj. Jim Gant is the author of a brilliant new strategy for how to succeed in the Afghan War now entering its ninth year, “One Tribe At A Time.” Before making major decisions on whether to escalate the war by adding 20-40,000 more G.I.s to the fight, President Obama and his war council ought to read every w (Read More)
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Should Obama Order Afghan War Troop Surge?
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SWJ Blog: Should Obama Order Afghan War Troop Surge? Troops Say Maybe Not. - Tom A. Peter, Christian Science Monitor.As President Obama and his top advisers make their final decisions on whether to send 40,000 or more troops to Afghanistan, it comes on the heels of the bloodiest month for US forces in the history of the eight-year co (Read More)
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Finishing Firefights Difficult in Afghanistan
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SWJ Blog: In response to e-mails referencing the fighting cited in my Afghanistan trip report at SWJ and Westwrite, here is a video of three firefights. They illustrate why adding more US troops is separate from imposing more casualties and lowering Taliban morale.This video shows why coalition and Afghan battalions inflict few Talib (Read More)
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