Archive for July 3rd, 2009
They are not all Taliban
David Tate puts the difference between the different kind of bad guys in A’stan quite bluntly: …the coalition are fighting two distinct insurgencies in Afghanistan. The first, that keeps those in Regional Command South busy, is certainly a primarily Pashtun-led insurgency that is nationalist and religiously based to an extreme. However, there are also drug [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2009 under General.
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links for 2009-07-02
U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center (tags: COIN army military) Commander's Guide to Money as a Weapons System Handbook Center for Army Lessons Learned (tags: military) A Battlefield Tourist (tags: afghanistan)
Posted: July 3rd, 2009 under Asides.
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