With a new Pakistani military response to Taliban advances underway, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy goes before the House Armed Services Committee this afternoon to discuss what military training and aid in counterinsurgency the United States is offering that the Pakistanis will accept. Working with a More…
“Enough is enough. We have decided to flush them out,” the senior adviser in the [Pakistani] Interior Ministry, Rehman Malik, told the independent television channel Geo.
“The peace accord was linked to peace. When there is no peace, there is no use for that accord,” Mr.
Two new Obama administration senior officials got sent up for nomination today: Phil Mudd, undersecretary-designate for intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security; and Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary-designate for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the State Department.
I wrote a bit Friday about the, uh, ambition inherent in assigning U.S. trainers to mentor the Pakistani army in counterinsurgency. An excellent and chilling PBS Frontline documentary that aired last night had a scene that underscored the point better than I could have.
In “Children of the More…
Want to read an extremely thorough response to Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani’s remarks on the ceasefires in Pakistan’s Swat Valley? Over at the Weekly Standard’s blog, Bill Roggio goes off. To take one point that has deep implications for the Obama administration’s nascent efforts at bolstering Pakistani More…
Something that didn’t really fit into my piece this morning about Pakistani Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani’s presentation yesterday with his Afghan counterpart, Said Jawad: Haqqani disputed that there’s any presidential support for the peace deal negotiated with the Pakistani Taliban in the Swat Valley, which essentially More…
Just got this press release from U.S. Forces-Afghanistan:
KABUL, Afghanistan – Coalition Forces are aware of the allegation of non-combatant casualties in Khowst District, Khowst Province, and are conducting a joint investigation.
“We take the safety of Afghan citizens very seriously, and we will immediately investigate to get to the
More from Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ conference call. Yesterday, Andrew Exum thought I was a bit too breathless in describing the budget as a victory for the counterinsurgency crowd, and it’s a fair point. But I asked Gates if he thought he had reached consensus within the Pentagon More…
With the long-awaited announcement of Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ “hard-choices” budget coming in about an hour, there’s been a lot of talk this morning about Greg Jaffe’s piece in The Washington Post on U.S. defense planners’ fascination with the Israel-Hezbollah war of 2006. As Greg writes, and More…
The New York Times has the details of the funding program to support Pakistani troops in counterinsurgency that Gen. David Petraeus and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy unveiled Wednesday:
The new approach, which requires Congressional approval, would give responsibility to the Pentagon and its Central Command
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