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• End the War by Winning It

  
  The Liberal Democrat — Authority: 126
  BY SENATOR JOHN MCCAINI think President Obama made the right decision to embrace a counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan and to resource it properly.  I would have much preferred that Gen. Stanley McChrystal receive the entire force he had requested.  But I have spoken with our military and civilian leaders, ...
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• U.S. Marines launch first major Afghan operation since surge announced

  
  osmoothie — Authority: 146
  FOX News (AP) , “ U.S. Marines Launch First Major Afghan Operation Since Surge Announced ” A U.S. military official in Washington said it was the first use of Ospreys, aircrafts that combine features of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft, in an offensive involving units larger than platoons. KABUL — ...
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• U.S. Marines launch Afghan offensive

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. Marines swooped down behind Taliban lines in helicopters and Osprey aircraft in the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge.
  11 hours ago

• Marines Lead Offensive to Secure Southern Afghan Town

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 899
  An operation involving American, Afghan and British forces is the first since President Obama’s call for more troops.
  12 hours ago

• Pakistans ISI’s feeling pretty bubbly over Obamas Afhanistan policy

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Champagne popped open this week as Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) celebrated US President Barack Obama’s announcement that American troops would start withdrawing from Afghanistan in July 2011. Despite the extra 30,000 soldiers and the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) expansion of its unmanned ...
  14 hours ago

• 974 to Afghanistan for the Civilian Surge

  
  Diplopundit — Authority: 436
  Image via Wikipedia Last month, Jack Lew, the State Department’s Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, visited Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck Center for Complex Operations in Indiana and had a town hall. Here is part of what he said: “This is really important work. It’s really hard work. We have a lot ...
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• Afghan Taliban deny having bases in Pakistan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Kabul, Dec 4 (Prensa Latina) The Afghan Taliban have denied having bases in Pakistani territory and said the false campaigns are aimed at distracting the attention from their capability and strong resistance they pose.The Taliban rebels said they have neither bases nor they need one in Pakistan or any other place out ...
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• Soviet commander: U.S. faces similar fate in Afghanistan

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  A former commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan has warned history is being repeated in the war-ravaged country as the United States and its allies become increasingly mired in an “unwinnable war.”Gen. Victor Yermakov commanded the Soviet Union’s 40th army in Afghanistan from May 1982 to November 1983, one of ...
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• Update from Afghanistan

  
  NEED - The Humanitarian Magazine — Authority: 118
  One of the founders of NEED, Kelly Kinnunen, is working on a video documentary project in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is travelling 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 ...
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• Clinton doesn’t blame Karzai for confusion over U.S. policy

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 675
  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is seen by many as the Obama administration’s “good cop” when it comes to dealing with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, leaving others to point fingers at his government over corruption, election fraud and other issues. On Thursday, she continued to show empathy for ...
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• A UNICEF worker killed in Afghanistan

  
  Fieldnotes — Authority: 124
  If you follow the news, you likely know about the brutal attack on a UN guesthouse in Kabul, Afghanistan just over a month ago. On October 28, Taliban militants staged an early morning raid—they killed guards and scaled a gate to enter a small compound, firing guns and grenades in an assault that lasted nearly two ...
  2 days ago

• Views and opinions — Afghanistan Update

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  IntroductionIn August 2008, I redeployed to Canada after working with the Strategic Advisory Team (SAT) in Kabul, Afghanistan for one year. During that year, I had worked on a daily basis with the Ministry of Education, conducting capacity-building in that organization. Although you may ask what a military officer was ...
  2 days ago

• Are pay increases the answer for the Afghan police?

  
  The Daily Clarity — Authority: 129
  There are about 93,000 Afghan police at present. It is a far more dangerous job than being a member of the army there, and the police have a terrible reputation for corruption. This is not a unique situation in the developing world. In many police forces in Asia continued sinecure is dependent on procuring a steady ...
  2 days ago

• Soviet commander: U.S. faces similar fate in Afghanistan

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  A former commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan has warned history is being repeated in the war-ravaged country as the United States and its allies become increasingly mired in an “unwinnable war.” Gen. Victor Yermakov commanded the Soviet Union’s 40th army in Afghanistan from May 1982 to November 1983, one ...
  2 days ago

• Most US troops will be sent to Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Kabul, Dec.3 (ANI): Of the 30,000 additional American troops to be deployed in Afghanistan in the summer of 2010, most will be sent to the southern part of that country, as it is perceived to be the stronghold of the Taliban, an American military official said here.The New York Times quotes the official as [...]
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Barack Obama: Afghan surge is a war with an end

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Barack Obama ordered a major escalation of the war in Afghanistan but made clear that his appetite for the conflict was finite.
  2 days ago

• Top 10 Observations About President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan War Strategy Speech

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  Following President Barack Obama’s a war strategy speech Tuesday night, myriad observations surfaced about the way forward for the United States military in Afghanistan.  Below are my Top Ten observations about that speech:1) It took three months for President Obama to come up with this;2) President Obama believes ...
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• Afghanistan welcomes Obama’s revised strategy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Kabul, Dec 2 (DPA) Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta Wednesday welcomed the revised strategy of US President Barack Obama for Afghanistan, saying it would give his country a chance to take over the security of the war-torn country from international troops.President Obama unveiled his long-awaited revised ...
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• India hails Obama’s decision to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  New Delhi, Dec.2 (ANI) India on Wednesday hailed the U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to increase troops in Afghanistan.Addressing reporters on the sidelines of an event in the national capital, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor said that continued military pressure on insurgents is an ...
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