http://ir-ingr.livejournal.com/868809.html#cutid1 Cartoons about live in modern Afghanistan. Two cartoonists traveled trough the country and published their story.
http://ir-ingr.livejournal.com/868809.html#cutid1 Cartoons about live in modern Afghanistan. Two cartoonists traveled trough the country and published their story.
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.
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/the-weakness-of-taliban-marksmanship/ An interesting article about small arms skills and marksmanship of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The articles suggests that those skills are low, and offers plausible explanation, but it nevertheless works OK for Taliban
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/26/taliban-afghanistan-occupation also see: Part I: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/24/the-taliban-troop-london-jihadists and Part II : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/25/taliban-afghanistan-prison-special-report
http://starshinazapasa.livejournal.com/102234.html What happens in a war (from the veteran of 1st and 2nd Chenen wars ) , also see Arkady’s book “One soldier’s War” http://www.amazon.com/One-Soldiers-War-Arkady-Babchenko/dp/0802118607
http://www.belousenko.com/books/nikulin/nikulin_vojna.htm
http://community.livejournal.com/warhistory/1788659.html#cutid1 post in russian livejournal community about history of some 3rd reich songs and marches