@ Ganulv, Steve Blair and others. I'll try and check them out. That is exactly what I wanted.
Carl - A Col. Tunnell's article is making its way across the web, on Michael Yon's website and on...
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Thanks for the reading suggestions
@ Ganulv, Steve Blair and others. I'll try and check them out. That is exactly what I wanted.
Carl - A Col. Tunnell's article is making its way across the web, on Michael Yon's website and on...
As to the main issue
The US military is an awesome, almost too amazing to contemplate, instrument when used appropriately.
It's also a wasteful overly bureaucratic and weirdly managed (within and without) machine.
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My apologies, Ken
Ken - you wrote (and I've searched the thread a couple times and don't see it right now but it was there, it's there I tell you! :) ) that Pakistan looks after their interest just as the US does.
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I screwed up on my dates....
....in my first post on this thread. I was referring to the following:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB325/doc02.pdf
I've got more (you all know by now I like to use references...
Understanding and justification are different
Ken -
In my opinion, you veer toward the latter.
And no one has a problem with Pakistan, we are talking about the leadership of the Army and the intelligence agencies, certain of which are...
@ Ken White and Carl
Ken,
I respectfully disagree on your point about the American Army and Pakistan.
Historically, the American Army and NATO are huge boosters of the Pakistani Army for a variety of reasons, some...
Overall structure of decision making in Astan
This is an Afghanistan specific comment - I think:
How exactly does the day to day decision making work within the larger NATO and ISAF structure? Who is in charge on a day to day, month to month,...