Recent Posts Tagged With 'abu muqawama'

• Concerning that Robust Afghan National Security Force

  Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 23:31 in afghanistan, abu muqawama, afghan national police, afghan national army, marines in helmand

  Joshua Foust has given us a rundown of what he sees as contradictions in Andrew Exum’s prose concerning Afghanistan.  Particularly salient is one specific paragraph that Andrew uttered. Nowhere that I went was I able to get a really coherent d...

• The Failing UK Strategy in Afghanistan

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 22:15 in british army, abu muqawama

  Abu Muqawama links a stinging report in the Telegraph.  Writing in the British Army Review, an official MoD publication, Major SN Miller, stated: “Lets not kid ourselves. To date Operation Herrick [the British codename for the War in Afg...

• CNAS Releases Afghanistan Study

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 23:39 in afghanistan, center for a new american security, abu muqawama, john nagl

  The Center for a New American Security, which is advising the Obama administration, has released Triage: The Next Twelve Months in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Permit us a few observations?  On page 4 we read that they advocate that we: Adopt a truly...

• Drones, ROE, Raids, Fathers and Sons, Diamonds and Goats

  Posted on Friday May 8th, 2009 at 00:45 in afghanistan, featured, fathers and sons, rules of engagement, counterinsurgency, abu muqawama, tehrik-i-taliban

  I thought I would give you a lot of loosely correlated things to think about for the weekend.  First of all, Bird Dog at the FORVM says call off the drones in Pakistan.  They have been a tactical success, he notes, but in the same breath, points ou...