Garteh Porter interviewed 20 June. Marja campaign - the defeat shows that the US cannot get the support of the population & will not be able to eliminate the Taleban. The Kandahar campaign. "When you go to protect people, the people have to want you to pr
Conn Hallinan: "Drones are a high-tech solution to a deeply complex political problem. The longer they stalk the skies over Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, the more difficult those political problems become. It is time to stop bombing and start talking."
"A fully functioning Gwadar port would be the most strategically devastating ‘pearl’ in China’s chain of naval bases. [...] Pakistan would, by going forward with its Sino-dependant long-term economic plans, become intricately bound to maintaining Chinese
Paul Rogers in OpenDemocracy 11 Feb 2010. "The Kajaki power-plant experience [2008] has implications, direct and indirect, for Operation Moshtarak. First, it reveals the possibility of Nato using its huge firepower advantages to push Taliban paramilitarie
Operation Strike of the Sword or Operation Khanjar is an ongoing US-led offensive in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. About Wikipedia 10.7.: 4,000 Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade as well as 650 Afghan troops are involved, suppo
It turns out, however, that the picture of Marja presented by military officials and obediently reported by major news media is one of the clearest and most dramatic pieces of misinformation of the entire war, apparently aimed at hyping the offensive as a
The use of Georgian training base and military infrastructure for conduction of peacekeeping operation in Afghanistan will be discussed at the informal meeting of NATO Defense Ministers in Istanbul, February 5. Georgian Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia wi
Efter åtta år har ingen ens tillstymmelse till svar. De som dominerar är upptrappning utan politisk substans och tillbakadragande utan politisk heder. Vi stirrar ner i ett svart hål. Det enda vi ser är skräck., skriver Per Wirtén