The great news is now, having laid this all out in black and white, we can set the SIGAR report on the shelf alongside a similar one for Iraq (where the watchdog was creatively called SIGIR, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction) knowing it will never, ever ever happen this ...
“white” Special Forces, which are supposed to wage a counterinsurgency in support of the Afghan government by holding key terrain and building up local militias, as opposed to the “black” Special Forces of the Joint Special Operations Command that launch night raids and work on covert, ...
In November, President Donald Trump's administration said it would sharply cut the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 2,500 by mid-January, stopping short of a threatened full withdrawal from America's longest war after fierce opposition from allies at ho...
ALTHOUGH THE WHITE HOUSE announced on August 10 that Obama has a “winning” strategy in Afghanistan and enough forces on the ground to achieve US goals despite advances by the Taliban, General Stanley McChrystal sees it otherwise. For on the very same day, McChrystal told the Wall Street ...
these corporations in the White House insists on not observing the Kyoto accord, with the knowledge that the statistic speaks of the death and displacement of the millions of human beings because of that, especially in Africa." As if Bin Laden gives a shit about global warming or black ...
involvement in Afghanistan, writing on Twitter seven years ago that the war was "a complete waste" and six years ago that "we should leave Afghanistan immediately." Since becoming president in January 2017, he has repeatedly said he could end the Afghanistan war quickl...
immediately. captain eric meador on a mission in helmand province. photo: getty images 2009 getty images the directive has required a radical shift in the approach to afghanistan. for most of the first eight years of the war, the us and its allies relied heavily on air power to keep ...
One thing is certain: The U.S. military succeeded in arming the Taliban (captured military equipment; photo from The Guardian) W.J. Astore The headlines claim America’s war in Afghanistan has finally ended, but of course no war ends just because someone claims it to be so. The Afghan ...
My family and I try to arrange our passports; we stay alert to every visa opportunity. Above all, we fear for my sister. I also fear that my work might make my family a target. Even these words are hard to write; to see them in black and white. ...
Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan . By Lisa Gilman. (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2016. Pp. ix + 248, 4 black-and-white illustrations, notes, references, index.) My Music, My War is a wonderful addition to the scholarship on military folklore that Lisa Gilman and others have ...