http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/175357/ “greater security doesn’t come from fighting more wars; it comes from fighting fewer of them or none at all.” An excellent article about problems current American war strategy. Read it, if you indeed “support the troops”.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/atwar/winninginafghanistan1.pdf WINNING IN AFGHANISTAN, by CPT Carl Thompson 9 April 2009 /from the must-read sources for american personnel [about to be] deployed in Afghanistan / Exceptionally good article about strategy and leadership. It contains a lot of specifies that are only relevant to military and Afghanistan , but there are enough general points as well. Excellent writing, despite a need to decipher some military lingvo
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-we-lost-the-war-we-won-rolling-stones-2008-journey-into-taliban-controlled-afghanistan-20110131 a story from 2008, when one [arab] journalist ventured into Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan and wrote a piece about his hosts and overall situation in Afghanistan.