Hindu Kush

War Wife Weekly: Winter In The Hindu Kush

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Winter in Afghanistan brings snow, and a flurry of pediatric patients.

Into the Hindu Kush

The Dignified Rant (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

President Obama addressed the nation last night, pledging 30,000 new troops in an Afghanistan surge to buy time for Afghanistan to win the fight. Hopefully, we knock down the enemy enough and stand up government and pro-government forces enough that our side can win with a diminishing US/allied direct combat role (though we'd need to support our side with logistics, planning, firepower, intel/

Has War Really Changed? -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

National Review Online (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

... controversial wars. Who wants to leave our comfy suburbs to fight in godforsaken places like the Hindu Kush or Fallujah -- against those for whom violence and poverty are accustomed experiences? The West still has the technological edge in warfare. But thanks to globalization, the Internet, and billions of petrodollars, terrorists can get their hands on weapons (or the instructions...

• Has War Really Changed? - RealClearPolitics

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- December 8, 2009

War News Updates (Free subscription) | 12/09/2009

... open, and is in turn linked to U.S.-Israeli relations. The region from the Mediterranean to the Hindu Kush remains in a war or near-war status. In a fundamental sense, U.S. strategy has not shifted under Obama: The United States remains in a spoiling-attack state. Read more .... Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials Kicking the can in Afghanistan -- G. Murphy Donovan, American Thinker...

The Diminished Expectations of Nation Building

Newshoggers (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

By Steve Hynd Not Denmark, nor Switzerland in the Hindu Kush - more like Kosovo, Mosul or Columbia. Afghanistan could look like Iraq, the Balkans or Central America if NATO succeeds in its mission there, the alliance's top commander said on Monday. "It will be a world in which there is a central government, there are elections, there is reasonable...

Who's Harboring bin Laden Now?

Sleeping with The Devil (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn't get them if they really wanted to ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton , 67th US Secretary of State (1/21/2009 to Present), referring to the Pakistan government and the conventional wisdom that bin Laden and al Qaeda are hiding out somewhere in Pakistan's Hindu Kush mountains (10/29/2009). Personally I think...

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Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009

... success here in the US. ... If it's up to the DEA to change attitudes over there, we'll be in the Hindu Kush for another century.

The Same Old Pax Americana

FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009

... an ambitious Freedom Agenda that would supposedly give birth to a Jeffersonian democracy in Hindu-Kush. In fact, Obama did not mention any grandiose American plan for nation building in Afghanistan, a point stressed by his press secretary Robert Gibbs earlier in the day. "This can't be nation-building," Gibbs insisted. Nor did Obama insert in his Tuesday address the Manichaean...

Scorpions, Chiggers, and Sand Fleas

Innocent Bystanders (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009

This is a good read I received in an e-mail. It claims to have originated from a Recon Marine in Afghanistan. From the Sand Pit It’s freezing here. I’m sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains, along the Dar ‘yoi Pomir River, watching a hole that [...]

Behind the politics, Afghan army has a mountain to climb

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009

... Kabul Military Training Centre (KMTC) on the road to Jalalabad, rise the snow-dusted tops of the Hindu Kush. Nearby, hundreds of ruined Soviet tanks and armoured cars, piled in rusting heaps, offer a reminder that war is never far away in this beautiful, unforgiving land. Nourikhtab, 22, an Afghan national army recruit, is keen to get involved in Afghanistan's latest conflict ‑...

Obama And Brown Hounded By Afghan Del Boy Brigade.

Boggartblog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009

... Blog reported last week the main supply route for allied bases is through the Khyber Pass and the Hindu Kush mountains. NATO supply convoys must travel a narrow mountain road that has always been vulnerable to attack by local tribesmen. Now the attacks are carried out by Taliban fighters and gangs working for local warlords. 70% of the supplies bound for American, British and NATO...