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		<title>Truth, lies and Afghanistan: How military leaders have let us down</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis. Armed Forces Journal, February 2012. http://defensealt.org/zjV1gq Excerpt: I first encountered senior-level equivocation during a 1997 division-level &#8220;experiment&#8221; that turned out to be far more setpiece than experiment. Over dinner at Fort Hood, Texas, Training and Doctrine Command leaders told me that the Advanced Warfighter Experiment (AWE) had shown that a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan’s Soldiers Step Up Killings of Allied Forces</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Rosenberg. New York Times, 20 January 2012. http://pulse.me/s/5a33j Excerpt: American and other coalition forces here are being killed in increasing numbers by the very Afghan soldiers they fight alongside and train, in attacks motivated by deep-seated animosity between the supposedly allied forces, according to American and Afghan officers and a classified coalition report. Editor&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition Grows To Next Stage Of U.S. Military Presence In Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abubakar Siddique. Radio Free Europe, 25 October 2011. http://www.rferl.org/content/afghan_opposition_grows_to_next_stage_of_us_military_presence/24371170.html Excerpt: Experience has shown us that foreign forces cannot bring peace to Afghanistan. We will have peace when we remove the causes of conflict among [Afghan] people,&#8221; [protest organizer] Mozhdah said. &#8220;One of the key reasons for fighting here is that we don&#8217;t trust each other. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quarterly Report on Afghanistan and Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The White House. September 2011. http://www.scribd.com/doc/66998459/WH-Report-on-Afghanistan-and-Pakistan-September-2011]]></description>
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		<title>Panetta must fight four wars: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:48:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[editorial. Boston Globe, 30 June 2011. http://articles.boston.com/2011-06-30/bostonglobe/29722652_1_panetta-pentagon-government-discretionary-spending When Leon Panetta takes the helm at the Defense Department tomorrow, he will be facing difficult choices about the US military efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya. But an equally pressing — and potentially even more intractable — problem is the Pentagon’s budget and spending. Outgoing secretary Robert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: For Real Savings, Make a Real Withdrawal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Hartung. Huffington Post, 28 June 2011. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-hartung/afghanistan-for-real-savi_b_886241.html Excerpt: There won&#8217;t be large scale savings from the winding down of the Afghan war until virtually all U.S. forces are withdrawn. Even then there are still likely to be ongoing costs for training, equipping and possibly even paying Afghan security forces, which could cost up to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Statistical Irrelevance of American SIGACT Data: Iraq Surge Analysis Reveals Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joshua Thiel. Small Wars Journal, 12 April 2011. http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/journal/docs-temp/732-thiel1.pdf Excerpt: Maneuver warfare at its core is a mechanistic endeavor and fits with a corresponding necessity of top-down hierarchies. Conversely, counterinsurgency is a more ambiguous environment that varies in its complexity and context; it is the chess match of war. It is different in every locale [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under-budgeted Afghan War Spending to Swallow All Pentagon “budget savings” and more</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budget Memo by Charles Knight. 14 February 2011. For several years now White House budget projections have included a &#8220;placeholder for outyear overseas contingency operations&#8221; most of which are accounted for by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This placeholder number has been and remains $50 billion. Every year actual OCO (overseas contingency operations) spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks War Logs Roundup</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reva Patwardhan. Peace Action West Groundswell Blog, 29 July 2010. http://blog.peaceactionwest.org/2010/07/29/wikileaks-war-logs-roundup/]]></description>
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		<title>The Runaway General</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Hastings. Rolling Stone, 22 June 2010. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236 Excerpt: When it comes to Afghanistan, history is not on McChrystal&#8217;s side. The only foreign invader to have any success here was Genghis Khan – and he wasn&#8217;t hampered by things like human rights, economic development and press scrutiny. The COIN doctrine, bizarrely, draws inspiration from some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Way Forward: Rethinking U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report of the Afghanistan Study Group, June 2010. http://www.afghanistanstudygroup.org/?page_id=27 Excerpt: The bottom line is clear: Our vital interests in Afghanistan are limited and military victory is not the key to achieving them. On the contrary, waging a lengthy counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan may well do more to aid Taliban recruiting than to dismantle the group, [...]]]></description>
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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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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>
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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 [...]]]></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.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=81277532 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why COIN Will Fail in Afghanistan</title>
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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]]></description>
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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 Excerpt: &#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;]]></description>
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		<title>Majority Staff Memorandum prepared for Hearing on Afghanistan Contracts, Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight, 16 December 2009</title>
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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 of [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Department of Defense Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Background and Analysis</title>
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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]]></description>
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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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan Stability / COIN Dynamics Chart</title>
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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 [...]]]></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>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s folly</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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