War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... Vacuum in Afghanistan -- Max Boot, Commentary Magazine No Insurgency Here (Afghanistan) -- Nader Mousavizadeh, Foreign Policy 'Dithering' May Be Good Policy -- Couloumbis, Ahlstrom & Weaver, RCW U.S. Puts Faith in Pakistan's Military -- Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times The coming crises -- Ralph Peters, New York Post The War Against the War on Terror -- Wall Street Journal How...
War in Context (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
No insurgency here By Nader Mousavizadeh, Foreign Policy, November 5, 2009 Two conclusions are inescapable from the fiasco of Afghanistan’s presidential elections and the McChrystal assessment: There is no electoral solution to Afghan government’s crisis of legitimacy, and there is no military solution to the challenge of the Taliban. And when observing the current Afghan...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... civil war - that would be on top of the 21,000 additional troops already deployed by Obama. Nader Mousavizadeh ( via ) is right about the nature of the conflict in Afghanistan, and our ability to impose a solution through enduring military occupation: Two conclusions are inescapable from the fiasco of Afghanistan's presidential elections and the McChrystal assessment: There is no...
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
For some time, I have been writing that the US has lost site of its al Qaeda-rationalized strategic objectives in Afghanistan and stumbled into a civil war. Recently resigned US official Matthew Hoh also frames the challenge in Afghanistan as that of a 35 year old civil war in which the forces are far bigger than anything the US can influence. Now, my friend and IISS consulting senior fellow Nader...
