Did Pakistan Provide Intelligence Against Haqqani Network?
As I mentioned on Tuesday, the head of Pakistan’s spy agency is in the US for meetings with the CIA and other US intelligence interests. Those meetings started yesterday and appear to be slated to go...
View ArticleGreen on Blue (Insider) Killings Too Common for Reuters Headlines
The rapidly increasing trend of green on blue (or, in new ISAF-speak, insider) killings has become so common that the killings are no longer headline news for at least one news outlet. Today’s Reuters...
View ArticleInvestigating National Security Personnel in the Post-Nidal Hasan Era
Three years and one day before FBI briefed DNI Clapper about the questionable email practices of David Petraeus, and less than three years before FBI alerted Leon Panetta to John Allen’s perhaps less...
View ArticleA “Self-Appointed” Go-Between with Lebanese Officials
Here’s the first inkling of something Jim and I have been speculating about: that Jill Kelley may have some tie to intelligence, which led the FBI to take Paula Broadwell’s harassing emails to her more...
View ArticleWhile Washington Sniffs the Generals’ Panties, Afghan Peace Talks Begin to...
With General John Allen now floating in some sort of purgatory where he has been tainted by figures in the Petraeus scandal, the “orderly” transition planned for Allen to step up to commanding NATO and...
View ArticleAs Obama Prepares to Not Withdraw from Afghanistan, Treasury Declares the War...
Jim had a perceptive post this morning talking about how, now that Obama has won re-election promising an Afghan withdrawal plan, his Administration has started negotiating a Status of Forces Agreement...
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2012 Afghan Fighting Season Data Are In: Daniel Davis Was Right on Surge Failure
As the “fighting season” for the tenth full year of US forces being in Afghanistan comes to a close, the Defense Department has released its most recent report (pdf, required every Friedman Unit by...
View ArticlePetraeus: Sex Under the Desk with Broadwell Less Dangerous than Intercourse...
Rajiv Chandrasekaran has a fascinating story about how the NeoCons–in the form of Fred and Kim Kagan–kept control of the strings on our Generals in (Chandrasekaran’s story is limited to) Afghanistan....
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Afghanistan Kills Yet Another Military Career: Allen to Retire
After multiple missteps, General John Allen has “chosen” to “retire” rather than face a Senate confirmation to be head of NATO. Many times throughout recorded history, would-be empires have attempted...
View ArticleAfghan Situation So Bad Propagandists Only Speak Of “Something That Could...
Back in April, I ridiculed the Senate Armed Services Committee and especially ISAF Commander Joseph Dunford for continuing to hold on to the delusion that the US can still “win” in Afghanistan. As the...
View ArticleAfghanistan Claims Zakaria Kandahari Arrested Six Weeks Ago
The continuing saga of Zakaria Kandahari, who has been at the heart of the torture and murder cases that prompted Hamid Karzai to ban US Special Forces troops from the Nerkh District of Maidan Wardak...
View ArticleKarzai’s Latest: US Behaving Like Colonial Power
Since he lobbied for and then obtained loya jirga approval of the Bilateral Security Agreement but then added new conditions before he would sign it, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has exasperated...
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After Spectacular Failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, US to Throw More Money at...
This image is from June, but it could apply to just about any day US policy and “accomplishments” from Afghanistan to Iraq and beyond are discussed. A central part of Barack Obama’s prime-time...
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