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	<title>Defense Strategy Review &#187; Af-Pak</title>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve met the enemy in Afghanistan, and he&#8217;s changed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roy Gutman. McClatchy Newspapers, 14 March 2010.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/14/90083/weve-met-the-enemy-in-afghanistan.html 
Excerpt: 
 Today, although the United States and more than three dozen NATO allies and other countries are supporting Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the Taliban dominate a growing swath of territory, and their power trumps the government&#8217;s in three-quarters of the country.
Although they&#8217;re often portrayed as mindless fanatics, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Withdrawal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Coll. The New Yorker, 15 February 2010.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/stevecoll/2010/02/strategic-withdrawal.html 
Excerpt: 
I have also heard it suggested, however, that the big and visible Helmand operation is being conceived as a sort of “demonstration project” of joint U.S. and Afghan security and governance capabilities &#8211; that “clear, hold, and build” there will be constructed as a sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An alternative to COIN: It’s time to adapt our security strategy to leverage America’s conventional strengths</title>
		<link>http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/an-alternative-to-coin-it%e2%80%99s-time-to-adapt-our-security-strategy-to-leverage-america%e2%80%99s-conventional-strengths-finel#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernard I. Finel. Armed Froces Journal International, February 2010.
http://www.afji.com/2010/02/4387134
Excerpt:
 A fundamental challenge in devising a strategy for the use of American military power is that the world has literally never seen anything like it. The U.S. today has military capabilities at least equal to the rest of the world combined. There is virtually no spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama wants extra $33 billion for wars now, atop record $708 billion sought for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anne Flaherty and Anne Gearan. Los Angeles Times, 13 January 2010.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-obama-war-funding,0,3486465.story 
Excerpt: 
The administration&#8217;s Quadrennial Defense Review, the main articulation of U.S. military doctrine, is due to Congress on Feb. 1. Top military commanders were briefed on the document at the Pentagon on Monday and Tuesday. They also received a preview of the administration&#8217;s budget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why COIN Will Fail in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/why-coin-will-fail-in-afghanistan-sigge#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[J. Sigger. Arm Chair Generalist, 31 December 2009.
http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/12/why-coin-will-fail-in-afghanistan.html 











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		<title>A Leak About the Phantom Army</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meteor Blades. Daily Kos, 30 December 2009.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/12/30/820467/-A-Leak-About-the-Phantom-Army 
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&#8230;the Afghan National Army is a farce; there&#8217;s little chance of turning it into a cohesive fighting force; and there&#8217;s zero chance of doing so on a speedy timetable&#8230;











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		<title>Majority Staff Memorandum prepared for Hearing on Afghanistan Contracts, Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, 16 December 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/majority-staff-memorandum-prepared-for-hearing-on-afghanistan-contracts-subcommitee-on-contracting-oversight-16-december-2009#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Majority Staff, Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, 16 December 2009.  Hosted on the Commonwealth Institute website.
http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/2009-12-16StaffMemo.pdf 
Excerpt:
[The] number of Defense Department Contractors in Afghanistan May reach 160,000.  There are currently 104,000 Defense Department contractors working in Afghanistan.  The increase in troops may require an additional 56,000 Defense Department contractors, bringing the total number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan’s never-ending challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[H.D.S. Greenway. Boston Globe, 16 December 2009.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/12/16/afghanistans_never_ending_challenge/
Excerpt:
The enemy, then as now, always rallied to the reliable call of “jihad’’ against the infidel invaders no matter who they were. Of all the tribes, those of the Pashtuns were the most feared.
The motives for fighting in Afghanistan were fear, prestige, and retribution. The British feared Russian expansion, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Department of Defense Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Background and Analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/department-of-defense-contractors-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-background-and-analysis-schwartz#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moshe Schwartz. Congressional Research Service, 14 December 2009.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24124212/CRS-Contractors-Study-12-09
 











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		<title>Legislator Sees Echoes of Vietnam in Afghan War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheryl Gay Stolberg. New York Times, 12 December 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/us/politics/13obey.html
Excerpt:
“It is stunning,” he remembers telling Mr. Obama, “to listen to Johnson talk to Dick Russell, the conservative old wise head in the Senate from Georgia — it is terrible, gut-wrenching to listen to them both say, ‘Well, we know this is damn near a fool’s errand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something from Nothing: U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nir Rosen. Boston Review, January/February 2010.
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.1/rosen.php 
Excerpt: 
Perhaps McChrystal’s most crucial assumption—also endorsed by Obama—was that the failure to create a unified, centralized state in Afghanistan will lead to al Qaeda’s return. This claim is widely contested. Al Qaeda is already ensconced in Pakistan, where it is better protected from the United States than it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan Stability / COIN Dynamics Chart</title>
		<link>http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/afghanistan-stability-coin-dynamics-chart-pa-consulting#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PA Consulting Group. Chart published by Talking Points Memo, 08 December 2009.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2009/12/the_militarys_plan_for_the_afghan_war_surge_in_one.php 
Editor&#8217;s Comment:
The folks at Talking Points Memo don&#8217;t seem to know for whom or why PA Consulting drafted this chart.  I am enjoying imagining that it was drawn for a new magazine called Popular Complexity and Chaos Illustrated and that the White [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Action Report—General Barry R McCaffrey USA (Ret)  Visit to Kuwait and Afghanistian – 10-18 November 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/after-action-report%e2%80%94general-barry-r-mccaffrey-usa-ret-visit-to-kuwait-and-afghanistian-%e2%80%93-10-18-november-2009#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry R McCaffrey. McCaffrey Associates, 05 December 2009. Hosted on the Commonwealth Institute website.
http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/0911McCaffrey.pdf 
Excerpt: 
Most Afghans are also dismayed at the injustice and corruption of the government (in particular the ANP) compared to the more disciplined and Islamic Taliban.
Twice in recent months we have seen battalion sized units of Taliban fighters conduct highly successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s folly</title>
		<link>http://www.comw.org/wordpress/dsr/obamas-folly-bacevich#utm_source=feed&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=feed</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew J. Bacevich. Los Angeles Times, 03 December 2009.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bacevich3-2009dec03,0,3209129.story 
Excerpt: 
So the war launched as a prequel to Iraq now becomes its sequel, with little of substance learned in the interim. To double down in Afghanistan is to ignore the unmistakable lesson of Bush&#8217;s thoroughly discredited &#8220;global war on terror&#8221;: Sending U.S. troops to fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Afghanistan Parenthesis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Bromwich. Huffington Post, 02 December 2009.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-bromwich/the-afghanistan-parenthes_b_377141.html
Excerpt:
&#8230; the president spoke as if Al Qaeda were the name of a distinct, finite, searchable entity that can be subdued by an intensification (lasting exactly 18 months) of American fighting in the country that was once its camp. As for the Taliban, whatever else they may be, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s speech on Afghanistan, Dec. 1, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[as prepared for presentation at West Point, full text as provided by the White House to the Los Angles Times, 01 December 2009.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/12/obama-speech-text-afghanistan.html 











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		<title>Afghanistan Fact Sheet: The Numbers Behind the Troop Increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Hellman. National Priorities Project, 01 December 2009.
http://www.nationalpriorities.org/newsletter/2009/12/01/Afghanistan-fact-sheet-numbers-behind-troop-increase
Excerpt:
Prior to Fiscal Year 2010, combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have been funded outside the normal Defense Department budget through “supplemental” spending bills. The Obama Administration pledged that it would end this practice after Fiscal Year 2009 and included, as part of its Fiscal Year 2010 budget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tora Bora Revisited:  How We Failed To Get bin Laden and Why it Matters Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, 30 November 2009.
http://foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Tora_Bora_Report.pdf
Excerpt:
The reasons behind the failure to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and its lasting consequences are examined over three sections in this report. The first section traces bin Laden’s path from southern Afghanistan to the mountains of Tora Bora and lays out new and previous evidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why they hate us?: How many Muslims has the U.S. killed in the past 30 years?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen M. Walt. ForeignPolicy.com, 30 November 2009.
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/11/30/why_they_hate_us_ii_how_many_muslims_has_the_us_killed_in_the_past_30_years
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Yet if you really want to know &#8220;why they hate us,&#8221; &#8230; the fact remains that the United States has killed a very large number of Arab or Muslim individuals over the past three decades.
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And no amount of &#8220;public diplomacy&#8221; or &#8220;American narrative&#8221; will win friends when the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi. antiwar.com, 26 November 2009.
http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2009/11/25/the-cost-of-war/
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Why are these wars so expensive?  It goes back to Napoleon: logistics.  US bases in Iraq are supplied by a 344-mile road running north from huge depots in Kuwait and by another artery running south from Turkey, both of which require convoys of trucks with armed guards dramatically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: Elections and the Crisis of Governance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[International Crisis Group Asia Briefing N°96, 25 November 2009.
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/getfile.cfm?id=4181&#038;tid=6397&#038;l=1
Excerpt: 
The electoral fraud was a direct consequence of failure to build the capacity of government institutions. Since the 2004 presidential vote, the international community – UNAMA in particular – repeatedly turned a blind eye to the looming crisis of credibility rooted in an unsound process. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pricing an Afghanistan troop buildup is no simple calculation: The White House estimate is twice the Pentagon&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christi Parsons and Julian E. Barnes. Los Angeles Times, 23 November 2009.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-troop-costs23-2009nov23,0,3233273.story
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&#8230;in a memo early this month, obtained by The Times&#8216; Washington bureau, the Pentagon&#8217;s own comptroller produced an estimate that broke with the customary Defense formula and did include construction and equipment.
That memo said the yearly cost of a 40,000-troop increase would be $30 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Matthew Hoh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Derrick Crowe. Return Good for Evil, 21 November 2009.
http://returngood.com/2009/11/21/an-interview-with-matthew-hoh/
Excerpt:
How many recruits do they [al-Qaida] get per year? A hundred? Two hundred? The Muslim population is over a billion. You’re talking about such a small fraction. It’s really associated with such a fringe movement that we have to attack using human intelligence and using law enforcement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are American Muslims A Threat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[response by Michael Brenner to question posed by James Kitfield on National Journal Expert Blog, 19 November 2009.
http://security.nationaljournal.com/2009/11/are-american-muslims-a-threat.php#1393085
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&#8230;all it would take to restore sanity is some slight reflection on our dismal performance everywhere we have tried our hand at manipulation in the Greater Middle East since 9/11. We have been consistently arrogant, incompetent, corrupt &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gen. Wesley Clark calls for exit from Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Byrne. 70news.com, 18 November 2009.
http://www.70news.com/2009/11/18/gen-wesley-clark-calls-for-exit-from-afghanistan/
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You&#8217;ve got to “figure out where you’re going,&#8221; Clark told the House Armed Services subcommittee on oversight and investigations. &#8220;How do we get out of here? Because our presence long term there is not a good thing. We’re playing into the hands of people who don’t like foreigners in a [...]]]></description>
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