Winning the War in Afghanistan

[davidbfpo]

With almost no media coverage the UK appears to have refined its policy, if this article is correct: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/c...ghanistan.html

'The first fruit of this was last week’s lucid and thoughtful strategy paper on Afghanistan and Pakistan, tellingly published not by the MoD but by the Cabinet Office. It lays out the framework of a wholly new approach, calling for much greater effort to be given to building up the rural Afghan economy, through new roads and other infrastructure, to give local farmers a positive alternative to the present chaotic and murderous stalemate. Unless they can earn their living from crops other than opium, they will remain in terrified semi-thrall to the Taliban'.

The UK cabinet Office paper is: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/medi...n_pakistan.pdf . IMHO a very odd document, with lots of objectives and steps to achieve success.

I normally rely on the caustic comments on: http://defenceoftherealm.blogspot.com/

The latest article cites a very odd Reuters article, with a UK brigadier being cited: http://uk.reuters.com/article/homepa...8029._CH_.2420


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