Afghan War Strategy

David Wood

After A Decade, Gen. Petraeus' Counterinsurgency Strategy Is Deemed A Failure

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 08.22.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan signals the beginning of the end for the ambitious counterinsurgen...

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Making Afghanistan Safe

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reese Schonfeld

"'It became necessary to destroy the town to save it": US Army Major to Peter Arnett 2/07/68 Vietnam "We had to destroy them to make them safe": Mu...

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Afghanistan Is the War Obama Always Wanted

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Only the most hopelessly naïve, star struck or a true believer could have ever thought that President Obama would not dump massive numbers of fresh troops into Afghanistan.

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Obama's Afghanistan Strategy: Blogs From New York Review

The New York Review of Books | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pakistani author and journalist Ahmed Rashid writes in the New York Review of Books about Obama's "missing strategy" in Afghanistan. After all the ta...

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Dear President Obama: New Orleans Needs a Surge

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karen Dalton-Beninato

You are invited to impose security. Strategy, slogans, a new direction, we'll take it all. You are now marching toward escalation; please escalate at home to reassure a crime-weary New Orleans.

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Senior WH Counterterrorism Advisor To Announce New Terror Strategy

The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The U.S. government must fundamentally redefine the struggle against terrorism, replacing the "war on terror" with a campaign combining all facets of ...

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McChrystal Preparing New Afghan War Strategy, Likely To Include More US Troops

AP | PAULINE JELINEK and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. general put in charge of turning around the war in Afghanistan is likely to recommend significant changes in the campaign ...

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Barack Obama's New Afghan Strategy To Be Announced Soon

AP | ANNE GEARAN and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is close to announcing a redrawn strategy for a war in Afghanistan that the president says the United States i...

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