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Afghanistan Timetable Raises Questions

latimes.com | Paul Richter and Julian E. Barnes | Posted 12.03.2009 | World


Reporting from Washington - President Obama's timetable for rapidly expanding and then shrinking U.S. force levels in Afghanistan, a central feature o...

Gates: Afghanistan Failure Would Have 'Severe Consequences'

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 12.03.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — A deeply skeptical Congress on Wednesday resigned itself to President Barack Obama's escalation of the Afghanistan war, even as the...

US Troops Hopeful Obama Plan Will Wind Down War

AP | DENIS GRAY | Posted 12.02.2009 | World


FORWARD OPERATING BASE AIRBORNE, Afghanistan — U.S. service members in Afghanistan said President Barack Obama's decision to send 30,000 more tr...

Commentary: Not Enough Troops For Afghanistan Counterinsurgency

Posted 12.02.2009 | World


By C.M. Sennott, GlobalPost BOSTON -- Standing before cadets at West Point but speaking to a wide and skeptical audience in America, Afghanistan an...

Ten Short Explanations for Obama's Afghan Surge

Barton Kunstler, Ph.D. | Posted 12.01.2009 | Politics


Barton Kunstler, Ph.D.

Many of Obama's supporters are trying to figure out why he keeps pursuing policies we thought we were voting against. I can't figure it out, but I've come up with some possible explanations.

Messages From Afghan Citizens About The War (VIDEO)

Posted 12.01.2009 | World


While much of the debate about Afghanistan here in the States has been focused on how to adjust the U.S.'s war strategy, the latest video from the Ret...

Afghan Officials Fear Talk Of Exit Strategy

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 11.30.2009 | World


KABUL — Afghan officials hope President Barack Obama's address on Afghanistan won't be weighted too heavily on an exit strategy – even tho...

White House Emphasizes The Positive In Afghanistan, With Hopes Of Gaining Support For Troops

latimes.com | Posted 11.30.2009 | World


The United States is developing a set of benchmarks to ensure that Karzai fights corruption and inefficiency, instituting a "monitoring and verificati...

Military Divorces Edge Up Again In 9th Year Of War

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The toll for a nation long at war is evident in military homes: The divorce rate in the armed forces edged up again in the past yea...

Obama Promises To 'Finish The Job' In Afghanistan

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — War-weary Americans will support more fighting in Afghanistan once they understand the perils of losing, President Barack Obama dec...

Obama's Afghanistan Decision: 34,000 More Troops And An Exit Strategy, Reports Say

Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House braced for a tough sell of President Barack Obama's long-awaited decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of...

Cost Estimates Of Afghanistan Troop Buildup Vary Widely

Posted 11.23.2009 | World


President Obama may soon find himself in an increasingly uncomfortable position when it comes to funding the anticipated buildup of U.S. troops in Afg...

4 US Service Members Die In Afghan Attacks

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.24.2009 | Home


KABUL — Bombings and shootings killed 12 people across Afghanistan, including four American troops and three children, as President Barack Obama...

White House: No Afghan Decision Before Thanksgiving

The Cable | Josh Rogin | Posted 11.19.2009 | World


The Obama administration won't announce its new comprehensive strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan until after Thanksgiving, a White House official c...

Army Data Show Constraints On Troop Increase Potential

washingtonindependent.com | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 11.19.2009 | World


If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to 40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available U.S. Army brigade to ...

Soldier Suicides This Year To Top Those In 2008

AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Soldier suicides this year are almost sure to top last year's grim totals, but a recent decline in the pace of such incidents could...

Obama: Decision Soon On Troops For Afghanistan

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 11.14.2009 | World


TOKYO — President Barack Obama declared Saturday that an era of American disengagement in the globe's fastest-growing region is over and warned ...

Karl Eikenberry Dissents On Afghan Troop Increase

Huffington Post | Nick Sabloff | Posted 11.12.2009 | World


Ahead of today's meeting of Obama's national security team to discuss Afghan war strategy, Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and a m...

Missing US Soldier's Body Found In Afghan River

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.12.2009 | World


KABUL — Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who disappeared last week along with another soldier as the two tried to retri...

Obama Looking For The "American Bridge" Out Of Afghanistan

Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff | Posted 11.11.2009 | World


While President Obama continues to mull over his options for adding more U.S. troops to the mission in Afghanistan, he is also pressing for an increas...

Number of wounded troops in Afghanistan increasing

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Far from winding down, the numbers of U.S. soldiers coming home wounded have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute am...

Afghans Doubt More Troops Could Help

New York Times | ALISSA J. RUBIN | Posted 11.07.2009 | World


As Americans, including President Obama's top advisers, tensely debate whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, Afghans themselves are hav...

Why The U.S. Should Accept Defeat And Start Withdrawing From Afghanistan

Foreign Policy | John Mearsheimer | Posted 11.06.2009 | World


The conventional wisdom among most Republicans is that while the United States had serious difficulty in Vietnam during the early years, by the early ...

George McGovern: Get U.S. Troops Out Of Afghanistan

Truthdig | Narda Zacchino | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics


George McGovern has some advice for President Barack Obama: Get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. "I'm convinced that war is going to turn sour. I'm co...

Admit It: We Don't Really Think About the Troops

Douglas MacKinnon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics


Douglas MacKinnon

For us, the troops are invisible. They don't exist. They don't count. For the folks I speak with from the military, it really has come down to, "Let us go big or let us come home."