Archive for the 'strategy' Category

Tomgram: William Astore, Six Vows to Support Our Troops | TomDispatch

Monday, April 4th, 2011

“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”.

winninginafghanistan1.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

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 co…

How We Lost the War We Won: Rolling Stone’s 2008 Journey Into Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan | Rolling Stone Politics

Friday, March 4th, 2011

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.