Afghanistan
Like Vietnam, it is Time to Cut Our Losses in Afghanistan
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Operationalizing the Decisive Point: Operation OQAB “Eagle” – Combined and Unified Action
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“Temporareality”: Permanent Contingency Operations and the Pervasive Influence it Has on US Military Operations & Culture and the Afghan Perceptions of Commitment
Temporareality is a strange military internal sub-culture that I have personally observed for over 16 years in 4 post 9-11 deployments.
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When Made-in-the-USA isn’t Afghan-Good-Enough
A nexus of policy guidance meant to protect the defense industry, reduce weapons proliferation and improve financial accountability has hamstrung ANDSF materiel procurement.
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Strengthening Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security: Is it Equipped to Counter ‘Emerging’ Threats?
Intelligence agencies in Afghanistan are failing to collect high-value information that could be beneficial to Afghan’s domestic security.
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The False Assumptions Fueling America’s Endless War
I argue that the war endures, in large part, because national security policy makers, military operators, and think tank scholars have embraced several false assumptions.
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America’s Unimportant, Unserious Wars
America lacks both serious consideration about the ends America seeks in deploying its sons and daughters across the globe and the way it is achieving our stated ends.
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A New Platform and New Plan for the Afghan Air Force
With new aircraft, at-home training, maintenance practices, and a new generation of eager pilots and aircrew, it will be possible to begin to turn the tide at all levels of the Afghan war.
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Limits and Potential of a Multilateral Approach to Counterinsurgency: Afghanistan and NATO
ISAF may provide a new model of counterinsurgency – de facto multilateral – based on classical doctrines and tenets, yet organizationally and operationally different.