CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 15 Oct 09

Hot Topics AA: COMMENT: Regional instability and our options —Shaukat Qadir 10/09/09 AF: Weapons failed US troops during Afghan firefight 10/12/09 AF: French killed after Italy bribed Taliban: report 10/15/09 IQ: Iraq releases new death toll figure 10/14/09 IR: Iran investigating prominent opposition cleric 10/13/09 IR: In Iran, 2 get death sentences for postelection uprising …

Definitions: What Is Terrorism?

Chávez and Gaddafi urge redefining of ‘terrorism’ By Benedict Mander in Caracas Published: September 29 2009 21:43 | Last updated: September 29 2009 21:43 Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi have joined forces to urge the world to redefine “terrorism”. While emphasising the importance of attacking terrorism “in all its forms, including state …

Journal: Integrity, Afghanistan, & The White House

SMALL WARS JOURNAL This Week at War: America’s Last Counterinsurgent? McChrystal report unwittingly slays counterinsurgency doctrine September 25, 2009 Robert Haddock This summer the U.S. government has faced a deteriorating crisis in Afghanistan. Such crises tend to force policymakers to face up to the facile assumptions they have previously made. Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s report to …

CENTCOM Week in Review Ending 24 September 2009

Hot Topics AA:  Counterterrorism at the expense of COIN will doom Afghanistan and Pakistan: US officials 09/24/09 AA: Israel hiding nukes in Golan, Syria claims 09/22/09 AA: Al-Qaida release video message likening Barack Obama to George Bush 09/23/09 AF:  Afghan jails are base for al-Qaida and Taliban, says US commander 09/21/09 AF:  Afghan warlords will …