The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Today’s fixation in Washington is former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ so called new revelation, breathlessly reported by the Washington Post (Robert Woodward), the New York Times (Thom Shanker) and others, that Barak Obama was not fully committed to George Bush’s (and Robert Gates’) war in Afghanistan, especially the troop surge there which Obama allowed …
Huh? The US Is Hosting A Giant Military Yard Sale In Afghanistan It is a January sale with a difference. The American military is auctioning off millions of pounds of tankers, accommodation blocks, tents, generators and other “white goods” in Afghanistan ahead of next year’s deadline for the end of combat operations. In a tender …
U.S. Governmental Information Operations and Strategic Communications: A Discredited Tool or User Failure? Implications for Future Conflict Dr. Steve Tatham Synopsis Through the prism of operations in Afghanistan, the author examines how the U.S. Government’s Strategic Communication (SC) and, in particular, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Information Operations (IO) and Military Information Support to Operations …
Ahmed Rashid REF A — 12 Years of Lessons Learned in Time for 2014, October 13, 2013 This is an extraordinary book that required a great deal of time, not in the reading, but in the reflection. This will be a longer review than usual, even for me, because this book contains all of the …
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Afghanistan: In an interview with the BBC which aired on 7 October, President Karzai strongly criticized the NATO military campaign in Afghanistan. “On the security front, the entire NATO exercise was one that caused Afghanistan a lot of suffering, a lot of loss of life, and no gains because the country is not secure.” “I …
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Afghanistan Targeting 2015 Cricket World Cup Posted by: Channels Television Posted date: October 01, 2013 In: Sports | comment : 0 Comments Afghanistan can qualify for the 2015 Cricket World Cup if they beat Kenya on Wednesday October 2nd and Friday October 4th in the final two games at the World Cricket League Championship in …
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Some off notes, but seems a useful summary of the overall situation. Tomgram: Ann Jones, Americans Can’t Remember, Afghans Will Never Forget The Afghan War is officially winding down. American casualties, generally from towns and suburbs you’ve never heard of unless you were born there, are still coming in. Though far fewer American troops are …
