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I don't think we are going to gain a more accurate appreciation down the road, but rather revisionism, slanted to support politics, ego, and to protect folks' necks.

We gained a more nuanced...

During a search for the posts on the Dutch role I found this thread: http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?t=923&highlight=dutch


I have just finished reading those two pages of...

At the outset, we had situations where taliban had been captured or had otherwise surrendered en masse.

http://www.combatfilms.com/cfrtv_archive_0013.asp

What is different now from then, and...

Despite the greatest degree of seriousness on the part of GIRoA, it will never get past the tribalism, corruption, deceit, and apathy to make a difference, at least not until tens of years have past...

I think the unique thing to the Afghanistan issue is the simple fact that before the coalition set down stakes in the country, the people didn't have any grievances. They seem to have been more than...

Thanks David.

Ethnic friction aside, I've never quite understood this assertion, who came up with it first, and how it has grown in belief and conviction among policy-makers, that local forces are more prone to...

Body language expert? :confused: What will the media think of next?

I think he fully believes it. I felt that he aimed well when trying to tell the Karzai govt. that it is now living on borrowed time.

Well, hurrying up and getting it done was clearly evident tonight in the President's speech. If I were the Commandant of the Marine Corps, I'd dispense with all previous planning factors, source the...

Bingo!!! Therein lies a hurdle I find myself thinking about daily.

Aye...I'm not looking forward to the conditions and measures of effectiveness attached to the surge. I am further concerned that an exit strategy might be appended to the magic number of troops...

Not certain on the sheep counting this time...maybe predominantly goats :D.

The focus of my team will be along the lines of operation that are less concerned directly with security, and yes, we...

I thought there was an "M"...for mistress? I remember very clearly that you wrote (must be a few years on by now) that if you found who they were sleeping with, you could get an 'in" to the bad guy....

Indeed! Thanks for reminding me of that aspect. Always go in knowing more about him and what he wants than he does.

Guys, so besides the routine IO/psyop drivel, how do we counter this reality, in concrete terms?

I'm looking for ideas here, so that my key leader engagement script doesn't come off as the...

That's more along the lines of what I meant. Current efforts are my concern for the most part..



http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6932459.ece

If I read Omar...

History, as short or as long as it can seem, can easily be forgotten. In this case, I never even knew it to be true in the first place, as I either had not seen this story or simply was caught up in...

As many of you already know, I am spinning up for my next deploy, and it will be to Afghanistan. I will work much in the same vein that I did last time, as the lead for the non-kinetic effects team....