Bearden & Koskinas ON AFGHANISTAN + RECAP

Milt Bearden

HIST 11 July 2011 Don’t Be Spooked by Pakistan

HIST 1 Oct 2009 TESTIMONY to SFRC “The War in Afghanistan, The Regional Effects”

HIST 9 April 2009 Obama’s War

HIST March/April 2009 Curse of the Khyber Pass

HIST Nov/Dec 2001 Afghanistan Graveyard of Empires

Ioannis Koskinas

2013-08-01  The U.S.-Afghan game of “Chicken”

2013-07-10  Taliban talks: A dangerous distraction for Afghanistan

2013-06-14 with Kamal Alam: Reconciliation foolosophy: Fishing without bait

See Also:

2013 Army’s new mobile network to support its Afghan security mission

Berto Jongman: Admrial James Stavrides Expands on “Open Source Security”

Berto Jongman: Ahmed Kashid on Why, and What, You Should Know About Central Asia

Berto Jongman: Saudi Arabia & Qatar Plans for Salafism/Wahhabism Caliphate Sweeping South in Africa, East into Southern Asia – NATO & US Missing the Non-Military Strategic Implications

Berto Jongman: What Do Afghan Insurgents Want?

Bill Lind: 4th Generation Warfare is Alive and Well — And Washington is Still Deaf, Dumb, and Blind

Bruce Reidel: Pakistan Beats USA 12 Years In a Row

David Swanson: Lisa Savage on Afghanistan Myths & Reality — 20 More Years

DefDog: Kabul Update – Media Gets It Wrong … Again

DefDog: Understanding Afghanistan

Dr. Dr. Dave Warner in Afghanistan — Unable to Get Funding for Open Networks for Peace Across the Country — Say What?

General and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry on the Persistent Failure of US Understanding in Afghanistan

Graphic: Updated US Swath of Destruction from Afghanistan to Niger

Jeff Bordin: Fratricide (Green on Blue) in Afghanistan — A Crisis of Trust, A Vacuum in Understanding 1.1

Marcus Aurelius: Pipe Dreams and the Lack of Integrity — How to Lose Two Wars at Great Expense

Max Manwaring: Translating Lessons Learned in Colombia and Other Wars Among the People: Confronting the Spectrum of 21st Century Conflict

Mini-Me: Give Every Afghan a Radio? Or Give Every Afghan OpenBTS with a Radio App? + OpenBTS Meta-RECAP

Mini-Me: UK General “We Should Have Talked to Taliban” Decade Ago

Mini-Me: US Embassy Kabul in Disarray, Vulnerable

NATO CIMIC: The Role of Iran in Afghanistan’s Reconstruction & Development

Neal Rauhauser: Islam’s Doctrinal Divide — US Intelligence Vacuum

NIGHTWATCH: Afghanistan to Kashmir

NIGHTWATCH: Karzai Refuses US-Taliban Talks, US Clueless & Still Shutting Pakistan Out

NIGHTWATCH: Pakistan Continues to Scew Afghanistan

NIGHTWATCH: Pakistan Speaks for Taliban, Leaves Karzai to Hang

NIGHTWATCH: Pakistan, Taliban, Drones — One Drone Strike, Four Levels of Analysis

NIGHTWATCH: Sanctioning the Pakistani Training Schools for Suicide Terrorists

NIGHTWATCH: Taliban Spanks Karzai and CIA

NIGHTWATCH: US Kicked Out of Kyrgyzstan, Taliban Declares Victory

REVEALED: The True Story of Dr. Dr. Dave Warner and the Synergy Strike Force

Review: Black Tulip

Review: Descent into Chaos–The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia

Review: Ghost Wars–The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)

Review: Lethal Incompetence

Review: Making Friends Among the Taliban

Review: Operation Dark Heart–Spycraft and Special Ops on the Frontlines of Afghanistan — and the Path to Victory

Review: Surrender to Kindness (One Man’s Epic Journey for Love and Peace)

Review: Taliban — The Unknown Enemy

Review: The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam