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• Bloody fight looms for US marines in Helmand

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 967
  US marines in the vanguard of President Barack Obamas Afghanistan surge will face a bloody fight for the last major Taliban bastion in southern Helmand province, their commander said.
  15 hours ago

• Military News Update

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 446
  Even with the pending deployment of about 7000 Marines to Afghanistan, Marine Commandant General James Conway says morale in the Corps has never been better. Marines in Afghanistan have created their own hybrid MRAP. General James Conway said military operations against enemy forces in southern Afghanistan’s ...
  17 hours ago

• The Battle for Kandahar and Helmand

  
  The Captain's Journal — Authority: 535
  Our friend Michael Yon has penned a must read at the Small Wars Journal entitled Arghandab and the Battle for Kandahar .  Myra MacDonald of Reuters picks up on Michael’s assessment and makes a salient point . … let’s assume for the purposes of argument that Pakistan does not drop its resistance to tackling ...
  1 day ago

• Marines fix up good eats in combat outpost

  
  America's North Shore Journal — Authority: 129
  For Marines with the Police Mentoring Team assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, living on Patrol Base Jaker near the Nawa Districts bazaar means good eats. Dozens of Marines of Alpha Company, 1/3, and Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, skipped the regular meal lines, Dec. 5, and ...
  1 day ago

• Afghan dam project in peril

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 627
  The Kajaki Dam project in Southern Afghanistan is a symbol of US involvement in the country going back to the 1950s. In recent years, the project has been a priority for international development efforts, but the Taliban insurgency has put the success of the dam at risk. Washington’s foreign aid agency USAID has now ...
  1 day ago

• Taliban speed up attacks as U.S. top commander’s visit

  
  World Military Forum - Latest Military News — Authority: 134
  KABUL,  — Taliban militants have intensified activities amid the visit of Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, to Afghanistan as over a dozen policemen have been killed over the past 24 hours in the post-Taliban nation. Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks to Admiral Mike Mullen, ...
  2 days ago

• Marines Send Taliban Into Hiding

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Dec. 14, 2009 – When the Marines and sailors of Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, came to the Now Zad region in Afghanistan, the message they received from outgoing units was simple: Beware of the village of Changwalak. Marines patrol an orchard in Changwalok, ...
  2 days ago

• Military News Update

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 446
  Marines and Afghan forces ramp up offensive against Taliban. Admiral Michael Mullen visited Afghanistan to discuss President Obama’s new war strategy. Health experts say the H1N1 pandemic puts us at risk, not just for the flu, but also for bacterial infections like pneumonia. NATO/ISAF briefing at the ...
  2 days ago

• The Final Showdown: Obama Declares War On Pakistan

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 583
  By Webster G. TarpleyWASHINGTON, DC — Obama’s West Point speech of December 1 represents far more than the obvious brutal escalation in Afghanistan — it is nothing less than a declaration of all-out war by the United States against Pakistan . This is a brand-new war, a much wider war now targeting Pakistan , a ...
  2 days ago

• US Military: Afghan Surge Begins Next Week

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  U.S. Admiral Michael Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says the militarys focus now is the rapid deployment of 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and the initial elements of the surge will begin arriving next week. Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Admiral Mullen says orders have been issued to ...
  2 days ago

• Arghandab and the Battle for Kandahar

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 745
  13 December 2009 Kandahar, Afghanistan People are confused about the war.  The situation is difficult to resolve even for those who are here.  For most of us, the conflict remains out of focus, lacking reference of almost any sort.  Vertigo leaves us seeking orientation from places like Vietnam—where most ...
  4 days ago

• Gay soldier Ben Rakestrow comes out on return from Afghanistan

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 683
  A 21-year-old member of the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment (2RTR) has become one of the first British openly gay soldiers serving in a major conflict.
  4 days ago

• Marine Offense Gives Afghan City Second Chance

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2009 – A battalion of Marines in southern Afghanistan now has the upper hand in a city they believed to be a Taliban stronghold, a senior Marine Corps officer in Helmand province said today. Marines with 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, conduct combat operations in Now Zad, Afghanistan, during ...
  5 days ago

• Square stockings for soldiers

  
  Deadline Press & Picture Agency — Authority: 487
  By Andrea McCallum SCOTS troops fighting in Afghanistan are being sent some SCRUM-my treats to cheer up their Christmas in Helmand. Gift-boxes dubbed ‘square stockings’ filled with all kinds of stuff needed to boost frontline morale for 600 soldiers from Edinburgh based 1-SCOTS and 3 RIFLES will shortly ...
  5 days ago

• What We Still Don’t Know After the McChrystal/Eikenberry/Petraeus Hearings on Afghanistan

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 747
  Three days and four hearings on the ground views of  Afghanistan-Pakistan strategy have just ended. And there are still a number of questions that have gone answered. Here are a few. 1. What’s the relationship between Operation Cobra’s Anger And Population Security? Matthew Yglesias tweeted this question to ...
  6 days ago

• Americans Deeply Involved In Afghan Drug Trade

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 137
  A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford The U.S. set the stage for the Afghan (and Pakistan) war eight years ago, when it handed out drug dealing franchises to warlords on Washington’s payroll. Now the Americans, acting as Boss of All Bosses, have drawn up hit lists of rival, “Taliban” drug lords. “It ...
  6 days ago

• The Gurkhas in Afghanistan

  
  MoStFab — Authority: 491
  Just found this video , and I will embed it here before I attempt to come up again with something more profound. So the Afghan war is one in which professional armies of a number of countries need to work and fight together with reservists and contractors of a great number of nationalities, mentored Afghan army ...
  1 week ago

• Peak Oil: The real reason for the war in Afghanistan – the one the controlled media won’t tell you about!

  
  Candid Conservatives — Authority: 135
  Land and People by mercia According to the corrupt politicians who infest the House of Commons and our controlled corporate media, the war in Afghanistan is about “fighting terror” and “bringing democracy to the Afghan people”. Land & People has sought to show, over the last month, that it is nothing of ...
  1 week ago

• The Anti-Empire Report

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 511
  The Anti-Empire Report December 9th, 2009 by William Blum www.killinghope.org Yeswecanistan All the crying from the left about how Obama “the peace candidate” has now become “a war president” … Whatever are they talking about? Here’s what I wrote in this report in August 2008, during the election ...
  1 week ago

• What War Really Is

  
  NEED - The Humanitarian Magazine — Authority: 415
  One of the founders of NEED, Kelly Kinnunen, is working on a video documentary project in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is traveling with Dina Fesler of the nonprofit Children’s Culture Connection . Among other places, they have been visiting Charahee Qambar, an IDP camp where people are living in desperate conditions ...
  1 week ago

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