The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Flawed projects prove costly for Afghanistan, U.S. Contractor leaves Afghan police stations half-complete U.S. hires firms with questionable pasts for Afghan jobs Factory, coal mine show connections matter most in Afghan business Phi Beta Iota: Our political, policy, and military leaders simply do not know what they do not know. Assuming–desiring–that they have the best …
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Afghanistan: Our mandate for action is finally exhausted The withdrawal of our troops is not because we have won or lost in any conventional sense Editorial The Observer, Sunday 2 January 2011 This year will see the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan and, according to current plans, the beginning of British troop withdrawal. …
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The American public is getting a very high return on its investment in our current crop of junior officers. The are bright, industrious, and typically working significantly above their experience and training. And, day after day, they deliver for us. Iraq and Afghanistan are junior leaders’ wars. And OUR junior leaders — officer AND non-commissioned officer …
History is repeating itself in Afghanistan One hears again and again Afghans say that the Taliban may not be liked but that the US is distrusted, even hated Patrick Cockburn – The Independent 18/12/10 During the mid-1960s, America’s goal during a crucial stage in the Vietnam war was to defeat the enemy militarily. But it …
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The NATO command’s statement implies that the fighting is waged mostly by anti-government groups that are based in Pakistan. That is simply not true, is grossly misleading to the American public and whoever came up with that nonsense should be dismissed. The anti-government forces in Afghanistan are not foreign ers, but are supported from Pakstan. …
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Intel Reports Reveal Grim Afghan War Outlook President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan war plans took two major hits this week: First, his longtime adviser and chief diplomat in the region, Richard Holbrooke, passed away unexpectedly. Now, two classified intelligence reports, one each on Afghanistan and Pakistan and intended for congressional committees, had their contents leaked to …
December 14, 2010 Memo From Sun Tzu to President Obama Who is the Wise General in Afghanistan? By FRANKLIN C. SPINNEY Counterpunch In the first treatise written on the art of war, sometime around 450 BC [1], Sun Tzu explained why “the wise general sees to it that his troops feed on the enemy,” EXTRACT: …
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