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The problem with your proposal today is that even if the drug demand went to zero there would still be a huge network of organized crime just across the border but now with no income source. What...

Brainwashing the American public to not consume drugs!?

How would you propose to change our drug policy.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/21/AR2011012106325.html
I really like this idea. I have, for sometime now, been advocating for us to get more involved in training the...

That's funny because the last stats I saw said the Air Force had over 1/3 of the KIAs in OEF/OIF. If your logic were true that the Air Force doesn't do anything to need camo because we sit on our...

So how do we use local police but have a checks and balances system that deters those local police from taking bribes? Is it that we have a local police force that has embedded Internal Affairs who...

I agree with that idea too. I think that this would allow us to effectively partner with the ANP without the need for more troops.

I never understood the reliance on national police anyway. It...

National Guard. Now that makes sense.



Yes this is a big issue among the ANP but is a much smaller issue within the ANA. That is IMO due to the fact that we are partnering with the ANA. With...

Inteltrooper,
How would you suppose we use ANSF? I mean the current partnering system seems the most logical to me. And then transitioning to ANSF control as we are in parts of Helmand already...

Costly coalition plan to recruit thousands more Afghan forces draws concerns

This Washington Post article kind of threw me for a loop. Why would anyone object to setting ANSF and GIRoA up for...

I don't think it was a matter of security... the ISI has long been able to roll these guys up if they wanted, eh hum, needed to. But why now... what makes now so much different than anytime previous?...

Don't just discard the value added of IC versions of twitter and facebook. Though they may not fill the need for many of the topics covered in this thread, mainly Terror Watchlisting, they willl/do...

Before I start giving my two cents on this matter let me first caviat it by saying that my knowledge on Afghanistan is the result of 1x 9month deployment to RC-East doing MI at the tactical level. I...