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I am hoping that this session was to direct branch planning for the iieventuality that the operation was executed but the location turned out not to host the desired target. The military experts may...

One of the quotes about rationale for these types of films was to relieve the stress of the extended deployment, and I would gather from the sympathy it garners in the civilian press there are folks...

I see this thread has been idle for a while, but I was reading one of the linked documents (The Unchangeable War) and was struck by an excerpt on page 4:



Shades of the ISAF Rules of Engagement...

I am of two minds. First I find it refreshing that the explosion of communications has allowed this kind of discussion to arrive in the political sphere. Second, I find it distressing that the...

An earlier instance where the US picked a counterpoint to an undesireable regime and learned later, much to our chagrin, that the alternative came with baggage.
I think our own history is...

Indeed, how ever did it get to this?
Where in the UN and in our government is the examination of whether it was ignorance or lobbying (or indeed, what degrees of each) that allowed the particular...

The Bonn agreement, insofar as it excluded the Taliban and included a new leader (Karzai) who was chosen by the United States, was not a good foundation for stabilizing Afghanistan.
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"The biggest failure of the Bonn Conference was to leave out the discussion on the nature of the state in Afghanistan. The post-Bonn state came in the form of rebuilding what had already been there,...