Oct 16 2009

Gen. Jones Scoffs at Afghanistan "Surge" - Just Like Failed Iraq "Surge!"

I had forgotten this, but President Barack H. Obama’s National Security Advisor, former Marine Corps Gen. Jim Jones, in Fall, 2007, called for an early abandonment of Gen. David Petraeus’ counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy in Iraq — just before it began to show significant progress that led, less than a year later, to a widely acknowledged [...]

Jul 8 2009

Hard to Win Fighting This Way…

The AP reports:

U.S. Marines trapped Taliban fighters in a residential compound and persuaded the insurgents to allow women and children to leave. The troops then moved in - only to discover that the militants had slipped out, dressed in women’s burqa robes….
On Monday, images from a Predator drone showed a dozen fighters and at least [...]