After the confusion over what happened during a December U.S.-Afghan raid in Kunar Province that resulted in about nine deaths, the NATO command in Afghanistan, known as ISAF, is reacting more rapidly to potentially damaging stories about civilian casualties.
Xinhua reported earlier today that a protest in Helmand Province’s More…
More on the murky aftermath of a joint U.S.-Afghan raid in Kunar province this weekend that left nine Afghans (civilians? insurgents?) dead and generated further acrimony between the Afghan government and the U.S. military. As accusations fly from Afghan politicians about inappropriate military activities, the International Security Assistance Force More…
That’s the subject of an increasingly heated charge from the Afghan government after a Dec. 27 raid in the eastern province of Kunar left nine men dead. The International Security Assistance Force, NATO’s command in Afghanistan, said the men were part of an insurgent network planting improvised explosive devices. Representatives More…
Here’s new video released from Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s command in Afghanistan of McChrystal issuing post-speech strategic guidance to some of his deputies. He praises “a new clarity in our mission. … We are here to provide the government of Afghanistan and our Afghan partners time, space and capability to defend More…
So much for the “dithering” critique. Here is a statement just released by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, expressing full support and confidence in President Obama and the weeks-long strategy review.
“The Afghanistan-Pakistan review led by the President has provided me with a clear
I saw in my RSS reader that four U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan in the last 24 hours. Hmm, I thought, I get emails from the International Security Assistance Force — the NATO military command in Afghanistan — and I don’t recall seeing that. So I went back More…
Lost in all the more-troops-or-not-more-troops fallout from the leaked McChrystal strategy review is McChrystal’s own assessment of the subordinate importance of those troops. From section 2-1, which Andrew Exum takes credit for crafting:
[I]t must be made clear: new resources are not the crux. To succeed, ISAF [the
So we’re not going to get much security news after the Afghan government demanded that news organizations not report on suicide bombings and other violent incidents ahead of tomorrow’s presidential and provincial elections. But what happens after the election is more important than what happens during it. Already More…
With Thursday’s presidential election in Afghanistan proving difficult to forecast, some analysts in and outside the Obama administration are considering U.S. options if the next government is viewed as illegitimate. If so, the U.S. may push the winner toward forming a “national unity government” to incorporate the losing factions into More…
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