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David Wood

Afghan War Casualties Remain High and Increasingly Severe

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: U.S. Casualties, Video, Aghan War Casualties, War Wounded, Amputees, War, Beyond the Battlefield, Afghanistan War Strategy, Ieds, Afghanistan War, World News

WASHINGTON -- Despite official assertions of progress in Afghanistan, American battle casualties remain stubbornly high, and the severity of the physi...

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U.S. Freezes $700 Million In Aid To Pakistan

Reuters | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Improvised Explosive Devices, Foreign Aid, John McCain, Video, Pakistan, Reuters, Pakistan Aid, Ieds, Howard McKeon, World News

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The leaders of a U.S. House-Senate negotiating panel have agreed to freeze $700 million in U.S. aid to Pakistan until...

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Soldiers Die While a Congressman Battles the Pentagon

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Pentagon, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Dod, Humvees, Robert Hale, Mraps, AM General, President Obama, Congressman Young, Ieds, Insidedefense, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

Representative Bill Young (R-FL) has blocked the Department of Defense's request to add MRAPs (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) to its light tactical ...

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David Wood

Afghanistan War's Enduring Legacy: A Surge In U.S. Troops Suffering Double And Triple Amputations

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: U.S. Troops, U.S. Casualties, Marines, Amputees, War Wounded, Ieds, Afghanistan War, Walter Reed, World News

American soldiers and Marines walking combat patrols in Afghanistan have suffered a surge of gruesome injuries, losing one or both legs and often thei...

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David Wood

As Afghan War Enters Tenth Fighting Season, IED Casualties On The Rise

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Ied Afghanistan, Ieds Afghanistan, Jieddo, US Casualties, Roadside Bombs, Ied, Afghan War, Afghanistan Casualties, Ieds, World News

Despite nearly a decade of costly and sometimes frantic struggle, the United States military has been unable to control the Afghan insurgents' most de...

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#Winning in Afghanistan

Matthew Hoh | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Robert Pape, Ieds, General David Petraeus, President Karzai, Taliban, Congress, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Michael Hastings, Afghanistan Study Group, Politics News
Matthew Hoh

General David Petraeus is in Washington, D.C., this week and, as expected, we are hearing claims of success and progress. No matter that we've heard ...

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2010: Worst Year for Civilian Deaths of the Afghanistan War

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War in Afghanistan, Obama, Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan, Ieds, Civilian Casualties, Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan War, World News
Derrick Crowe

Last year was the worst year for civilian deaths in the war so far, and irregular armed groups backed by the U.S. and by the Afghan government are preying on the population while recruiting and abusing children. Go team.

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Making Afghanistan Safe

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Coin, Jieddo, Afghan War Strategy, Ugs, Unmanned Ground Sensors, Improvised Explosive Device, Afghanistan, General Michael Oates, Taliban, General Petraeus, Ieds, Afghanistan War, Peter Arnett, Politics News
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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Misunderstanding Terrorism, Misrepresenting Islam

Louis Klarevas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islam, Homegrown Terrorists, Ieds, Bombs, Terrorism, Sami Samir Hassoun, Chicago, Muslims, Fbi, Politics News
Louis Klarevas

This weekend, the FBI arrested a man for planting what he thought was an improvised explosive device outside Wrigley Field in Chicago. Sami Samir Hass...

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Who's Really "Relying on Assumptions and Beliefs to Shape Reality" in Afghanistan War Debate?

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joshua Foust, Improvised Explosive Devices, Anti-War, Rethink Afghanistan, Ieds, Coin, Matthew Hoh, Registan.net, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Study Group, Counterinsurgency, Andrew Exum, Brave New Foundation, World News
Derrick Crowe

The Afghanistan Study Group report is out, and the fight is on. A number of critiques have been leveled at the report, one of the most influential being Joshua Foust's over at Registan.net.

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Ask Katie Couric to Challenge Petraeus on Afghanistan War 'Progress'

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civilian Deaths, P.R., Report-on-Progress-Toward-Security-and-Stability, Propaganda, David Gregory, Meet the Press, Nbc, Cbs, Robert Greenwald, Afghanistan War, Brave New Foundation, Military, Ieds, Rethink Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, Public Relations, Katie Couric, Petraeus, Afghanistan, Media News
Robert Greenwald

Petraeus is on a media blitz, disingenuously trying to sell the idea of "progress" in Afghanistan. NBC's David Gregory failed to sufficiently challenge Petraeus on his easily disproved spin. CBS' Katie Couric is next at bat.

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Taliban Massacre of 10 Aid Workers Only Tip of Iceberg

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Atrocities, Civilians, Taliban, Ieds, Nato, Afghanistan, World News
Robert Weller

The Taliban's brazen claim that it killed the ten medical workers leaves no doubt that the rising toll of civilian deaths is intentional. The kill one, scare 10,000 is a strategy often used in war zones.

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IEDS: Remember This Claim

Robert Weller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Propaganda, Afghanistan, Ieds, Withdrawal, War, World News
Robert Weller

Some military analysts agreed with a U.S. Army General's promise that there will be a decline in casualties from IEDs. The public should keep an eye on what happens to determine how much credence to put in Army claims.

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Bombing on the Analysis of the Times Square Bomb Plot

Louis Klarevas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Improvised Explosive Device, Counterterrorism, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Terrorism, Bombs, Homeland Security, Times Square Bomb, Nidal Malik Hasan, Najibullah Zazi, Ieds, Richard Reid, Faisal Shahzad, New York City, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Louis Klarevas

The failure of Shahzad's plot serves as a reminder that the capabilities available to terrorists seeking to harm us are drastically limited. This lesson seems to have been lost on the plethora of terrorism "experts" that took to the airwaves this week.

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Catching Up on Afghanistan

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, General Colin Powell, Jieddo, General Mcchrystal, War in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Almost Famous, General Michael Oates, Iran, Taliban, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, Iraq War, Rolling Stone, Afghanistan, Ieds, Iraq, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

Even with all this, the IEDs, al Qaeda and the suicide bombers and the revelation of General McChrystal's character deficiencies, I still think we have to stick it out in Afghanistan.

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How IEDs Are Wrecking NATO's Afghanistan Strategy

Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama, Afghanistan, Afpak, Robert Gates, Ieds, Improvised Explosive Device, World News

Round-up of the latest AfPak news: How IEDs are wrecking NATO's Afghanistan strategy. The Guardian's James Denselow notes Washington has spent over...

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Afghanistan: We Can't Win on the Cheap, but We Can't Afford to Lose

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Pentagon, Iran, Jieddo, Afghanistan, Korangal Valley, General Michael Oates, Iraq, Iraqi War, Valley of Death, Ieds, Osama Bin Laden, Afghanistan War, World News
Reese Schonfeld

Looking at the cost in lives and dollars in Afghanistan, I'd like to ask how many lives, how much money, and how long will it take us to reach our goal.

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'Black Hearts' (Anatomy of a War Crime)

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Black Hearts, Ak-47, Tokyo, War on Terror, Black Heart, Triangle of Death, Al Qaeda, Ieds, David Petaeus, Shia, Tony Yribe, Warrior Monks, Women's Media Center, Abu Ghraib, Thomas Ricks, Iraq War, Sunni, Yusafiyah, Bagdhad, Books News
Gail McGowan Mellor

Black Hearts should be taught at West Point, Annapolis, and wherever else the styles and consequences of combat leadership are studied.

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What The Hurt Locker Means for the Rest of Us

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker, National Security Strategy, Military, Nuclear Weapons, Defense Industry, Afghanistan, National Security, Mark Boal, Defense Spending, Iraq, Ieds, Civil-Military, Defense Budget, President Obama, Entertainment News
Lorelei Kelly

I know that this movie has been criticized by those who have served in the military. But beyond tactical accuracy and entertainment value, this film is significant, and it has lessons policymakers should heed.

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Afghanistan: Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham: Update

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Military Strategy, Army, Ieds, Mraps, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Pakistan, Oshkosh Truck Corp, M-Atvs, Robert Gates, Department of Defense, Humvees, Oshkosh MRAPS, Donald Rumsfield, Afghanistan War, World News
Reese Schonfeld

Even as we buy and produce new MRAPs, train the troops to use them, and look for ways to deliver them, the President is still attempting to define our strategy for how we will wage the war in Afghanistan.

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Shot in the Back: Insurgent Attacks and Afghan Disillusionment with Population Protection

Erica Gaston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Airstrikes, Afghanistan, United Nations, Stanley McChrystal, Suicide Attack, Civilian Casualties, Taliban, Ieds, Afghan Civilian Deaths, Afghanistan War, World News
Erica Gaston

A UN report concludes that insurgents killed three times as many Afghanis as the international forces did in 2009. Yet protesters in Jalalabad last week chanted "Death to America," not "Death to the Taliban." Why?

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Push Into Helmand Triggered Severe Spike in Civilian Death Rate, Failed its Objectives

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Improvised Explosive Devices, Civilian Deaths, Nato, Suicide Bombings, Operation Khanjar, Rethink Afghanistan, Ieds, Mcchrystal, Civilian Casualties, Isaf, Afghanistan, Afghan Election, World News
Derrick Crowe

More troops are not the answer in Afghanistan. We need to lower the overall level of military conflict as quickly as possible, and the only way to do that is to sharply reduce the number of U.S. troops.

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A Call to Arms (and Legs) in the Civil War and in the Iraq War

Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Civil War, Amputations, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan Casualties, Ieds Iraq, Amputations u.s Military, Iraq War Casualities, Ieds, IEDs Deaths, World News
Lapham's Quarterly

Since 2003, American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have been losing limbs at twice the rate of any previous American war. More than six percent of injured US troops require amputation.

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Abandoning America's Soldiers: The Decay of The US Military

R. B. Stuart | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Operation Desert Fix, Operation Desert Storm, Tallil Air Force Base, Amarillo VA, Burn Pits, Camp Lejeune NC, Army SSG. Gregory Wilson, Va, Iraq, Depleted Uranium, Agent Orange, Operation Desert Shield, Ft. Bragg NC, Marine Corps, Ptsd, Veteran's Day, War Wound, Albuquerque VA, Male Breast Cancer, Pyridostigmine Bromide, 82nd Airborne, Soldiers With Cancer, Ft. Campbell Kentucky, Veteran's Hospital, Permethrin, Ft. Hood Texas, Gulf War, CNN. R. B. Stuart, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Cancerous Tumors, Dod, IED's, Healthy Living News
R. B. Stuart

The inadequacy of the VA and a majority of military doctors in theater that fail to diagnose or misdiagnose is at the crux of the soldiers diagnosed with rare, advanced cancers.

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The Hurt Locker

Will Menaker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Ieds, Katherine Bigelow, Iraq War, David Morse, Jeremy Renner, Ralph Fiennes, Reviews, War Movies, Movies, Entertainment News
Will Menaker

This film approaches the kind of unaffected, unmediated portrayal of war and the men who live within its strange, parallel reality.

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