“But if it was that there weren’t enough helicopters and a soldier was left bleeding to death 20 kilometres from a hospital in Afghanistan, then I think it needed looking at.” When Channel 4 News spoke to Prime Minister Cameron about the footage today he said: “This is an absolutely...
I am planning to write a story set in late 1978. It is about the cold war. Today we know from foresight that thanks to the Brezhnev stagnation, the USSR was...
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” analyst Kate Clark wrote at the Afghanistan Analysts Network in 2011. “Which is the result of war, migration, land disputes, the championing and repression of different groups depending on who was in power locally and in Kabul and the successful leveraging by armed groups themselves against ...
The Afghanistan War period is something to be aware of since our current situation is similar. We've had a long bull market full of irrational exuberance. The “good thing” is, many of the most expensive growth stocks and speculative assets have already corrected by 50% – 80% within the...
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The ongoing destruction, banishment and desecration continued until the Six Day War in 1967 when Israel was again attacked from all sides. In those six days, Israel crushed its enemies, established protectable borders and reclaimed the Old City and the Western Wall. ...
After the interview was over, I thought that was all very interesting. How do you attack the United States from a mud hut in the middle of the night in Afghanistan? And the answer came the year later when they blew up two American embassies almost simultaneously, ...
The nation is wringing its hands about what to do to stop further terrorist attacks. Unfortunately, we are treating the symptom and not the disease: bomb the heck out of Afghanistan, stock up on Cipro, hire more security guards. The real answer lies in understanding what these peop...
The Taliban’s swift success has prompted questions over how the insurgent group was able to gain control so soon after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan – and, after almost 20 years of conflict in the US’ longest running war, what the Taliban want. Afghan security personnel take ...