COIN at the Political Level

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Published Oct 28 2009 by Abu Muqawama

COIN at the Political Level

Yesterday, I wrote the following in an op-ed which ran in the Daily Beast:

The Obama adminstration has, I believe, some leverage at the moment, which it could use to affect the composition and behavior of the next Afghan government. As long as Afghanistan’s...

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First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 20 2010 - 2 Documents

U.S. envisions troop surge in northern Afghanistan (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. commanders in Afghanistan are drawing up plans to deploy about 2,500 additional troops and trainers to the country's north due to concerns about a growing Taliban presence there, defence officials said on Friday. ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Yahoo! News Australia]

Entities: Afghanistan, United States, Taliban

First Reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 Documents

Afghanistan: Did the US invade Afghanistan?

Nasim Fekrat reviews nine years of the US presence in Afghanistan and says that those cannot be considered as “invasion”. ... [Published 2 hours ago by Global Voices Online]

Entities: Afghanistan, Nasim Fekrat

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Afghan spring no ally for U.S.

SARKARI BAGH, Afghanistan The leaves have returned to the trees along the banks of the Arghandab River, and row after row of grape vines and pomegranate trees have received their first irrigation floods of the year.Winter is yielding to spring, and that ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by USA Today]

Entities: Kandahar, Claude Lambert, Taliban, United States

First Reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 Documents

Taliban

Afghanistan: Counterinsurgency is not just Talibans

Joshua Foust reflects on how the U.S. military chooses to portray the communities where it operates. ... [Published 2 hours ago by Global Voices Online]

Entities: Counter-Insurgency, Taliban, Afghanistan

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Barack Obama

Rahim Kanani: Counterinsurgency Doctrine Is a Long-Term Strategy: Afghanistan Lacks a Long-Term Commitment

In today's Financial Times, author Tyler Moselle explained the limits of and over-reliance on counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine in American military policy and planning. "As its name implies it is appropriate for countering an insurgency, ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed]

Entities: Counter-Insurgency, Afghanistan, United States, Barack Obama

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 Documents

David Petraeus

Tackling insurgents is not enough for America Tyler Moselle

American counterinsurgency theory has become ensconced in national security strategy and permeates nearly every aspect of the US interagency process as if it is a cure-all for failed states, global terrorism â€“ and even poverty. As its name implies it ... [Published 18 hours ago by Frontier Post]

Entities: Counter-Insurgency, National Security Strategy, Foreign Policy, David Petraeus

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Stuck in the middle with you? Threading the needle between Moselle and Bacevich on Stablization in Afghanistan

Tyler Moselle, a smart and capable researcher based at Harvard's Carr Center, has a bizarre op-ed in today's Financial Times in which he warns that counterinsurgency not be considered "a panacea for American national security and foreign policy." Which ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by Abu Muqawama]

Entities: Andrew Bacevich, Afghanistan, Counter-Insurgency, Foreign Policy, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

Blogs

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The Kerry Approach [The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Oct 27 2009] John Kerry - fresh from his trip to Afghanistan and flush from his success with Karzai - comes down between the counterinsurgency of McChrystal and the counterterrorism ...
Educating the public about Counterinsurgency &a... [BLACKFIVE - Oct 22 2009] Warrior Legacy Institute (WLI) has released a second paper on our options for Afghanistan and Pakistan explaining Counterterror (CT) strategy. Last week "A primer ...
This has nothing to do with counterinsurgency, ... [Abu Muqawama - Oct 31 2009] Well, as we discussed yesterday, there are great books doomed to become (potentially) awful movies starring Matt Damon. But apparently there are also great books ...
John Kerry Finds a War with Which He Can Flirt [Firedoglake - Oct 27 2009] Senator John Kerry came back from Afghanistan calling President Hamid Karzai a “patriot” and supportive of a plan “closer to McChrystal than to Biden,” meaning he ...
Derrick Crowe: Senator Kerry Finds A War With W... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Oct 28 2009] Senator John Kerry came back from Afghanistan calling President Hamid Karzai a "patriot" and supportive of a plan "closer to McChrystal than to Biden," ...

Audio/Video

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U.S. Official: Afghanistan Not Worth It [ABC News Video: World - Oct 27 2009]
10-23-2009 - Pence Urges President To "Act... [Rep. Mike Pence - YouTube Channel - Oct 23 2009]
Afghanistan by the numbers [Reuters Video: Top News - Nov 04 2009]
Afghanistan by the numbers [Reuters Video: Top News - Nov 04 2009]
U.N. Attacked in Afghanistan [ABC News Video: World - Oct 28 2009]

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COIN at the Political Level

U.S. envisions troop surge in northern Afghanistan (Reuters)

Afghanistan: Did the US invade Afghanistan?

Afghan spring no ally for U.S.

Afghanistan: Counterinsurgency is not just Talibans

Rahim Kanani: Counterinsurgency Doctrine Is a Long-Term Strategy: Afghanistan Lacks a Long-Term Commitment

Tackling insurgents is not enough for America Tyler Moselle

Stuck in the middle with you? Threading the needle between Moselle and Bacevich on Stablization in Afghanistan