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• in Politics
  More U.S. Combat Soldiers in Afghanistan?
  U.S.Army Special Forces Counterinsurgency Efforts Continue Despite shortage on U.S. Green Beret Advisers in Afghanistan.
  by desperatelands / on Nov 3, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “counterinsurgency”

• Taliban Return to Northern Afghanistan, previously declared secure

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 590
  Afghanistan’s Kunduz province had been earlier evaluated as secure that is why troops were moved to other hotspots.  Now, with US and Afghan forces concentrated on the southern regions of Afghanistan, the Taliban have returned to the northern Kunduz province. In fact, ‘the Taliban is now threatening a key route ...
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• Afghanistan Strategy: You Have to Read the Boss’s Mind

  
  MANSIZEDTARGET.COM — Authority: 125
  Pretty amazing revelation that when the White House started discussing McChrystal’s proposal, that there seemed to be no awareness of the details of the March strategy by Obama or that it expressed a goal of defeating the Taliban: In June, McChrystal noted, he had arrived in Afghanistan and set about fulfilling ...
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• How to Win in Afghanistan, One Village at a Time

  
  SWJ Blog — Authority: 618
  How to Win in Afghanistan, One Village at a Time - Doug Stanton, Washington Post opinion. In mid-October and early November 2001, about three dozen Army Special Forces soldiers landed in northern Afghanistan and, with the help of a handful of CIA officers, quickly routed a Taliban army whose estimated size ranged ...
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• Consequences of Delaying the Afghan Decision

  
  Charlie Foxtrot — Authority: 538
  Over at Bouhammers Afghan Blog, an Afghan vet lays out why President Obamas delay in making a decision on an Afghan surge will make things a lot more complicated. Dear Mr. President: Posted By The Dude on December 6, 2009 Now that I’ve had a few days to ingest, digest, and perform my own mission analysis on ...
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• Obamas COIN Toss

  
  SWJ Blog — Authority: 618
  Obamas COIN Toss - Eliot A. Cohen, Washington Post opinion. It is impolite, but probably true, to say that when President Obama announced in March that he had a "comprehensive, new strategy" for victory in Afghanistan, he had no precise idea what he was talking about. In Washington parlance, the word "strategy" ...
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• COIN NOT Artwork

  
  Mcnorman's Weblog — Authority: 438
  I thought since you liked the rubber tire artwork, you might appreciate this muddled unclassified mess that the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have put forth.   And you thought the obamacare diagrams were bad?TDN:  This is the unclassified document from the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which shows the ...
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• Hammer, Meet Anvil

  
  SWJ Blog — Authority: 618
  Like clockwork, Jules Crittenden highlights the important “stuff” – see Hammer, Meet Anvil – for the latest on Cobra’s Anger. ... It’s the first operation post-surge announcement, though obviously the deployment and planning long preceded that. You’ll note that this operation is called “Cobra’s ...
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• This has a great chance of working! Michael Cohen brings us...

  
  Conserva tive Radical — Authority: 140
  This has a great chance of working! Michael Cohen brings us Power Point gone wild!
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• Eliot A. Cohen -- Whats Obamas counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan?

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 960
  It is impolite, but probably true, to say that when President Obama announced in March that he had a "comprehensive, new strategy" for victory in Afghanistan, he had no precise idea what he was talking about. In Washington parlance, the word "strategy" usually means "to-do list" or at best "action...
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• Anti-War Right Unlikely, War-Skeptic Right Possible

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 697
  There is a growing pocket of Republican skeptics of the war in Afghanistan, Reihan Salam contends, and they could cause serious problems for President Obama.  Alas, his argument is short on examples and long on speculation. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican known for his independent streak, has made a ...
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• Cobras Anger

  
  SWJ Blog — Authority: 618
  Marines Lead Offensive to Secure Southern Afghan Town - Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times . In the first major military operation since President Obama’s call this week for a troop escalation, about 1,000 United States Marines and Afghan and British forces swept into a rugged valley in southern Afghanistan in ...
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• Metz on the Afghan Surge

  
  zenpundit.com — Authority: 126
  Nothing like dueling Steves (see previous post ). Dr. Steve Metz of SSI compares the surges of Obama and Bush and finds them to be cut from the same cloth. Hat tip to SWJ Blog . How Obama”s Surge is Like Bush’s ….Ultimately, though, the Obama strategy in Afghanistan and the Bush strategy in ...
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• A Plan in Need of Clarity

  
  SWJ Blog — Authority: 618
  A Plan in Need of Clarity - Jim Webb, Washington Post opinion. I have great regard for the careful process the Obama administration employed in its efforts to define a new approach for the long-standing military commitment in Afghanistan and to put an operational framework in place for our responsible withdrawal. I ...
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• New Marine Offensive !!

  
  The Military Observer — Authority: 115
  Dec. 4, 2009CAMP LEATHERNECK, Helmand Province, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan – More than 1,000 International Security Assistance Force personnel partnered with Afghan National Security Forces personnel have begun operations in northern Helmand province to clear insurgent forces from a key area. More than 150 ...
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• The Strategy of Chasing the Taliban

  
  The Captain's Journal — Authority: 537
  In Why we must chase the Taliban and Refusing the Chase we covered how the ROE was preventing U.S. troops from engaging the insurgency when it was possible that noncombatants could be involved, and that this tactical approach had caused the need to chase the insurgents when they took cover in civilian areas and ...
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• Our Low-risk, Low-return Afghan Surge

  
  SWJ Blog — Authority: 618
  Our Low-risk, Low-return Afghan Surge - Rodger Shanahan, The Interpreter. ... Advisors who never get to interact with the locals outside the security of coalition bases are severely restricted in both the situational awareness that will inform good decision-making, and in their ability to manage projects. If advisors ...
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• Gay marriage debate, meet Afghan war strategy

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 654
  Flow charts can simplify any contentious issue, domestic or international. Take the gay marriage debate and Afghan war strategy  …  please . These two particularly exquisite flow charts turned up over the last day or so: one from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that explains the counterinsurgency effort in ...
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• Our New Afghanistan Deployment

  
  SWJ Blog — Authority: 618
  Our New Afghanistan Deployment - Mark ONeill, The Interpreter. ... An effective police force is an essential pre-requisite for stabilising a society affected by insurgency. The proper use of police by counterinsurgents offers security to the population, develops intelligence, and reinforces the appearance of normalcy ...
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• Big new report: “After Plan Colombia”

  
  Plan Colombia and Beyond — Authority: 121
  CIP is very pleased to share our new report on the Colombian government’s U.S.-supported “Integrated Action” or “CCAI” programs: a combination of state-building, counter-insurgency and counter-narcotics that is being viewed as the successor to Plan Colombia. “After Plan Colombia” is the product of ...
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• Stanley McChrystal Tells Troops Speak Your Mind Not Mine

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 152
  This should be required watching. Stanley McChrystal addresses the troops (and the "enemy") after Obamas speech :
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