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NSF: Significant Conclusions from the Afghanistan Study Group
Colleagues: The “New America Foundation” convened a mixed group of scholars, national security experts, and veterans of the Afghanistan conflict to produce this study, “Rethinking the U.S. War in Afghanistan”. The report was written by the “Afghanistan Study Group”, which … Continue reading
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NSF: US Policy in Afghanistan and Iraq: Looking Ahead to the Next Year
Colleagues: Two very interesting articles today worth reading, one on Afghanistan and one on Iraq, both looking forward to the next year and critical milestones that American policy in that region faces. First, a CSM article on the key turning … Continue reading
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NSF: Increasing global reliance on counter-terrorism strategies
Colleagues: Several of you have chided me for not critically looking at ”Option 2” for Afghanistan, the so-called “Counter-Terrorism” alternative that VP Biden apparently favored. That approach has been expanded to include more reliance on UAVs (Predators), Special Forces units, … Continue reading
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NSF: The AQ/Islamist Jihad is a real threat. Now here is how to defeat t…
Colleagues: This is an excellent piece by a COL Tom Snodgrass (USAF/Ret). The author does not flinch from stating explicitly that our “losing” in Afghanistan and Iraq would mean a significant gain for Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated insurgent/terrorist … Continue reading
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NSF: Elite opinion rapidly shifting against the war, but not the Administration
Colleagues: Two very different perspectives on the war in Afghanistan today. As I have noted, I am amazed at the rapidity in the shift of opinions written by national security experts over just the past two months toward the conclusion … Continue reading
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