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• Manipur state opens a rehabilitation camp for former rebels this week

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Imphal, Nov.29 (AN): Manipur government opened a rehabilitation camp for former rebels this week.The camp is part of Government’s efforts to enable the surrendered militants to join mainstream by ensuring their rehabilitation in the State. Opened at Koubru in Senapati district on Friday (Nov. 27), it is the first of ...
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• Heres Some Unhappy...

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 703
  Some interesting bits in this Telegraph report from last week : Top British commanders angrily described in the documents how they were not even told, let alone consulted, about major changes to US policy which had significant implications for them and their men. When the Americans decided, in March 2004, to arrest ...
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• NATO has lost its way in Afghanistan, admits British Army Chief

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov. 28 (ANI): The head of the British Army, General Sir David Richards, has acknowledged that NATO forces have lost their way in Afghanistan, and that they needed to rediscover the moral and physical conviction to succeed against the Taliban.The Chief of the General Staff was comparing NATO’s initial ...
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• Skelton endorses Gen. McChrystal’s ‘properly resourced’ Afghan strategy

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 22, 2009) — In a letter to the President, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) expressed support for the Afghanistan counter-insurgency strategy endorsed by President Obama last March. Skelton urged the President to give this strategy, and Commanding General Stanley ...
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• Faced with counter insurgency operation, ULFA cadres step up atrocities in Assam

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Guwahati, Nov.27 (ANI): Following the ongoing counter-insurgency operation the militants have stepped up atrocities in Assam. In the latest incident, twin blasts rocked the Nalbari district of Assam on Sunday (Nov.22) leaving eight persons dead and over 60 injured. Earlier, 12 oil tankers of a goods train were set ...
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• Salinas brings in military to advise on counter-insurgency tactics against gangs

  
  Politics in the Zeros — Authority: 531
  Salinas homicides and shootings 2009. By KSBW The homicide rate in Salinas is three times that of L.A. and local police are clearly overwhelmed by warfare between the major and powerful Hispanic gangs of La Familia and the Mexican Mafia. So they’re bringing in US military experts in counterinsurgency. Global ...
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• War and Profits

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  War and Profits by Stephen Fleischman | November 25, 2009 We know why there are wars, and we’ve known it for a long time. Good wars, that is, necessary wars, not wars by powerful foreign invaders, wars that might threaten our country. Everybody knows we’re in the ...
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• Afghanistan: Afghanistan’s Gray Line: The Education of “Combat Platoon”

  
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• Tripura trooper killed in gunfight with separatists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Agartala, Nov 18 (IANS) A Tripura State Rifles (TSR) trooper was killed and another shot at and injured during a gunfight with separatists from the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) Wednesday, police here said.“During a counter-insurgency operation, the outlawed NLFT militants started firing at the ...
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• "In Any Meaningful Sense"

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 703
  I endorse most of what Gian Gentile says here about the Vietnam War, especially in the context of this quote from George Herring: …the war could [not] have been ‘won’ in any meaningful sense at a moral or material cost most Americans deemed acceptable. Gentile is a pretty harsh critic of the COIN turn in the ...
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• Bribery is British troops’ new weapon against Taliban

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Tehran, Nov. 17 (ANI): British forces stationed in Afghanistan have been issued new guidelines, asking them to buy off potential Taliban recruits with “bags of gold.”According to a new army field manual, army commanders have also been asked to talk to insurgent leaders with “blood on their hands” in order to ...
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• Future of the army lies in counter-insurgency: General

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Counter-insurgency operations will eventually displace the armys traditional peacemaking capabilities as it prepares for life after the Afghan mission, says the general in charge of Canadas land forces
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Cmon Obama, Lets have a real buildup in Afghanistan!

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 124
  This article, by Richard Lee, was posted to The Rag Blog, November 11, 2009 To Barack Obama: Let’s have a military buildup! You can show those crazy-ass generals at the Pentagon that you aren’t just a chicken-shit weenie from Harvard. You gotta do it right, however. Stop waffling about a measly 40,000 or 44,000 ...
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• Searching for the Exit?

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 686
  The scuttlebutt that’s coming out now in Washington is that President Obama doesn’t much like the plans for Afghanistan offered by his advisors: WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for ...
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• BNW on AU Observer Afghanistan Panel

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 431
  
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• U.N. evacuates foreign staff from Afghanistan

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 584
  kabul (reuters) - the united nations said on thursday it would evacuate hundreds of its international staff from afghanistan for several weeks due to deteriorating security, a sharp blow for western efforts to stabilize the country.spokesman aleem siddique said the united nations would relocate about 600 of its ...
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• Two Points on COIN

  
  Lawyers, Guns and Money — Authority: 703
  First, I dont think that theres quite enough appreciation of this: But the choice between a mindset that says “the main purpose of the military is to scare China & Russia” or a mindset that says “the main purpose of the military is to intervene effectively in third world backwaters” has very real ...
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• What’s Next in Afghanistan?

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 686
  President Karzai narrowly won a clearly fraudulent election. His main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, has withdrawn from consideration as a candidate, ruling out a run-off election. That leaves us with an Afghan government of little or no legitimacy, unworthy of our confidence or that of the Afghan people. ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Antiwar Activists Reawaken as Obama Weighs Afghanistan Strategy

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 124
  This article, by Shahzad Chaudhary, was published by Politics Daily, October 30, 2009 Sitting in the front row at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, directly in sight of committee Chairman John Kerry, two women discreetly held up two pink cardboard signs that read "U.S. War = Terrorism" and "Drone Attacks ...
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• Coming home to another war - Soldiering on? The human cost of war

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 124
  This article, by Krystalline Kraus, was posyed to rabble.ca, October 29, 2009 With the war in Iraq still ongoing and the conflict in Afghanistan going from bad to worse, who is paying the price? Can success be measured by piling the dead up against a wall – ours and theirs? How high does the ladder to freedom ...
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