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The West Virginia Rebel's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Michael Yon ponders the task ahead for the man who helped straighten out Iraq. Gen. David Petraeus, who recently assumed command of Centcom, responsible for U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq (and many other countries), knows that these two countries present different challenges. The counterinsurgency manual he revised, and his own doctoral dissertation on the effects of Vietnam on the American...
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Innocent Bystanders (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Michael Yon did an amazing job of telling the story of the Iraqi War. Now, with that winding down, he has moved on to where the action is: Afghanistan. He has a fascinating photo essay of his day at the market, including some old rifles. Check it out: Posted in Food, Heroes, Travel
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XDA (Free subscription) | yesterday
Although I do not doubt the guys who are there in Afghanistan, like Michael Yon , who say we are losing in the same way we were losing in Iraq before the Surge change in tactics there, I look to the changes in Pakistan with a real sense of relief and hope . It makes sense that the new leaders in Pakistan want to crush the fundamentalist extremists in the ungovernable border provinces just to...
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The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
If the US does, it will be the first time in human history that any foreign power has ever come close to controlling the place. Michael Yon has a worthwhile piece examining what is a critical question. Money quote: It...
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Michael Yon ( Photo: Wikimedia ) The Afghanistan Paradox -- Daily News Can the war in Afghanistan be won? It depends on whom you ask. The senior British commander in Afghanistan recently was quoted in The Times of London, "This war cannot be won." A French diplomatic dispatch reports that the British ambassador said the best solution would be to find an "acceptable dictator" to take over the...
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PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Michael Yon: Can the war in Afghanistan be won? It depends on whom you ask. The senior British commander in Afghanistan recently was quoted in The Times of London , "This war cannot be won." A French diplomatic dispatch reports that the British ambassador said the best solution would be to find an "acceptable dictator" to take over the troubled country. But the British soldiers with whom I was...
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The Thunder Run (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
News and Personal dispatches from the front and the home front.In their own words:Michael Yon: - I left embed with British forces in Kandahar, and flew to Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand Province. Helmand is the biggest opium source of the world today. I write these words from Nangarhar, where bin Laden had made his home. Lashkar Gah: Western attitudes about the Afghans are interesting. There...
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Subtopia (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Via Boing Boing , Michael Yon has posted some striking photos of the rural compounds that dimensionalize much of the flat and arid Afghanistan landscape where “water is wealth,” he writes, and the “Afghan people are caught in the crucible of history, and their homes are battlefields.” Yon: “Compounds are small fortresses that offer the Afghans scant protection from the forces of history … They...
