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About That Karzai Reintegration/Reconciliation Structure

By | 01.21.10 | 5:30 pm

The State Department released a revised civilian strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan today. And it’s really more of a summary of what’s been going on as much as it is a document about where strategy goes from here. Seriously, if you read this piece and this piece More…

Karzai to Announce New Insurgent-Reconciliation Structure

By | 01.21.10 | 3:44 pm

There’s a big international conference in London beginning next Thursday to harmonize allied civilian efforts in Afghanistan. One thing to expect out of it: new “Afghan-led integration measures” to bring insurgents into line with the government, according to British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.

Miliband is before the Senate Foreign Relations More…

McChrystal on Fracturing the Taliban’s Coalition

By | 07.28.09 | 9:13 am

More from Gen. McChrystal’s interview with The Los Angeles Times’ Julian Barnes. Barnes asks McChrystal if there’s an opportunity to get members of the Taliban’s coalition to lay down arms:

There absolutely is and I don’t think it is necessarily not possible with the Taliban. Most of the fighters

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What’s Missing From Miliband’s Afghanistan Speech

By | 07.27.09 | 2:54 pm

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband gave a speech to NATO headquarters in Brussels about the Afghanistan war, and it might be the most thorough and explicit explanation of coalition military and political strategy offered by a senior official of either the U.S. or U.K. government. There are just two More…

UK Foreign Secretary on Iran

By | 06.18.09 | 4:41 pm

On Akbar Ganji’s question of whether the United States and its allies are saying enough about human rights in Iran, check out this remarkably frank blog post from British Foreign Secretary David Miliband:

Fair question - Senator John Kerry also addressed this issue in a typically eloquent

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