1.0 link 117514 <![CDATA[Four-Star General's Report On Afghanistan: A 25-Year War]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/07/four-star-generals-report_n_117514.html As U.S. military casualties mount in Afghanistan, a retired four-star Army general, who just returned from reviewing the six-plus-year war effort, said the country "is in misery" and describes the war as "a 25-year campaign."

In a memo written for the Social Sciences Dept. at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on July 30, Barry McCaffrey, a division commander during the 1991 Gulf War and drug czar under President Bill Clinton, writes that there is "no unity of command" --...

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