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Afghan Corruption Concerns US Policy Planners - Gary Thomas, Voice of America.Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has been roundly criticized in the international community for presiding over a corrupt government. A new report reinforces the perception of widespread corruption in Afghanistan, naming it the second most corrup (Read More)
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Global Guerrillas:
Some utterly random items of interest:“There’s no point in talking to people who don’t have blood on their hands" and bribe potential Taliban recruits with bags of gold. Updated UK COIN manual. US: Wall Street ethos hits main street. Middle class shoplifting zooming. "many people feeling the entire system is broken, th (Read More)
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The latest U.S. Army / Marine Corps COIN Center SITREP - Includes Counterinsurgency, Stability Operations, and Security Forces Assistance updates. (Read More)
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BLACKFIVE:
Richard Fernandez of the Belmont Club writes a very well done essay on the present Afghanistan decision making process. He compares Andrew Sullivan's apologia with David Kilcullen's concerns about the time involved in reaching a decision. You can disregard the Sullivan part except to understand that he thinks it is just mar (Read More)
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The saying goes "You can rent an Afghan, but you can't buy him". It looks like the British Army is going to accept that conventional wisdom and see about leasing some Talibs to keep them out of the fray. Now while it is easy to crack jokes about Brits wandering the battlefield with satchels of gold, there is some logic to t (Read More)
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Army Tells its Soldiers to 'Bribe' the Taleban - Michael Evans, The Times.British forces should buy off potential Taleban recruits with “bags of gold”, according to a new army field manual published yesterday. Army commanders should also talk to insurgent leaders with “blood on their hands” in order to hasten the end of the (Read More)
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COIN counterinsurgency - Google Blog Search:
Kilcullen on COIN and the adaptive Taliban: ". David Kilcullen, the Australian counterinsurgency guru who advised Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq, gave an hour-long talk tonight at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies. ... (Read More)
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1st Battalion, 5th Marines PowerPoint AAR - COIN in Helmand: After the Clear, Thoughts and Tips on Non Kinetic Actions - most certainly worth a thousand words. (Read More)
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COIN counterinsurgency - Google Blog Search:
As most of you probably know, over the past few years the U.S. military has been engaged in an extensive internal debate about counter-insurgency warfare. This is partly a debate about COIN tactics and techniques -- in other words, ... (Read More)
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A Blue Line in Afghanistan - Michael O'Hanlon, Washington Post opinion.As President Obama wrestles with whether to send more troops to Afghanistan despite widespread corruption in the government of Hamid Karzai, little attention is being paid to a promising dimension of our efforts to foster reform - a much better approach (Read More)
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COIN counterinsurgency - Google Blog Search:
Even our phony-baloney counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine admits, "The primary objective of any COIN operation is to foster development of effective governance by a legitimate government." We're never going to get legitimate, ... (Read More)
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Fourth Generation Warfare - Google Blog Search:
Afghan insurgents deploy Fourth Generation Warfare tactics, of which propaganda is a key component. Written by m.idrees. November 15, 2009 at 5:54 pm. Posted in Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, Global War on Terror, Propaganda, ... (Read More)
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Counterinsurgency,
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Enough Afghan Debate - David S. Broder, Washington Post opinion.The more President Obama examines our options in Afghanistan, the less he likes the choices he sees. But, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose - and he has stretched the internal debate to the breaking point. It is evident from the length of this deli (Read More)
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COIN counterinsurgency - Google Blog Search:
... pessimistic about the success of a counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan, believing that the existence of a functioning civil society--at a very basic level--is the fundamental requirement for the application of COIN techniques. ... (Read More)
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Thaindian News:
Washington, Nov.15 (ANI): US Central Command chief General David Petraeus has said that while the Pakistan Army has gained substantial success against the Taliban in South Waziristan, it should make serious efforts to hold onto the captured territories.“Pakistan should put the cleared territories under a senior Corps Comman (Read More)
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Taliban,
David Petraeus
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