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← Older posts Newer posts →Steve Clemons on The Daily Rundown
February 28, 2011Afghanistan Study Group’s Steve Clemons appeared this morning on The Daily Rundown and spoke with NBC’s Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie. Discussing Michael Hastings’ latest piece on the Psy-ops featured in The Rolling Stone, Robert Gates speech at West Point … Continue reading
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentThe Afghanistan Weekly Reader – February 25, 2011
February 25, 2011We are seeing increasing signs that the surge in Afghanistan is not working—U.S. troops are pulling back from what was once billed as a key strategic location and the nighttime raids that neo-conservatives claim have been so effective are actually … Continue reading
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentMike Huckabee: the Foreign Policy Candidate
February 25, 2011Ed Kenney Afghanistan Study Group Blogger With all the hullabaloo around yesterday’s bombshell Rolling Stone piece about the U.S. Military using psy-ops on sitting members of Congress and their own Chair of the Joint Chiefs, one key story has gone … Continue reading
Posted in Blog | Tagged election | Leave a commentPsy-ops and Afghanistan: Stop Spinning the American Public
February 24, 2011Will Keola Thomas – Afghanistan Study Group The goal of the U.S. Militarys psychological operations in Afghanistan is to use propaganda to influence the emotions and behaviors of “hostile foreign groups”. But according to a shocking story by Michael Hastings … Continue reading
Posted in Blog | 2 CommentsSecretary Gates’ View from the Afghanistan Front
February 24, 2011Will Keola Thomas – Afghanistan Study Group In a candid interview with the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes, Defense Secretary Gates offers an upbeat view of the war in Afghanistan that suggests he is still wearing Pentagon-issue rose-colored glasses. Unfortunately, he … Continue reading
Posted in Blog | Tagged continuation, drawdown | 2 CommentsYet Another Unsupported Assertion of Progress in Afghanistan
February 23, 2011Normally, when a column opens with the phrase “there is increasing evidence that…”, a reader has the right to expect that some evidence will be presented in the body of the column. John Nagl and Nathanial Fick’s op-ed (The Long … Continue reading
Posted in Blog | Tagged COIN, General Petraeus, progress | Leave a commentLooking Back on the Surge in Afghanistan
February 18, 2011It has been one year since the surge and the Afghanistan Study Group is marking this anniversary by taking a look at notable posts and commentary on the Afghanistan War. In our survey last month, the poll showed that two-thirds … Continue reading
Posted in Blog | Leave a commentAfghanistan Surge One Year Later—The Data Doesn’t Lie
February 18, 2011Edward Kenney Afghanistan Study Group Blogger Derrick Crowe, the Executive Director of Brave New World, wrote this week about the one-year anniversary of the Afghanistan surge that began with the offensive in Marjah. A quick survey of trends coming out … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged continuation, corruption, progress | Leave a commentMemorials to Purposelessness
February 17, 2011Matthew Hoh Director, Afghanistan Study Group This week marks the one-year anniversary of the US military offensive into Marjah in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. Operation Moshtarak, as it was called, was the largest military operation in Afghanistan since the … Continue reading
Posted in Blog | Tagged corruption, strategy, withdraw | Leave a commentAdequate Funding…For Corruption
February 16, 2011Will Keola Thomas – Afghanistan Study Group Professor Paul D. Miller, former director for Afghanistan on the National Security Council under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, has a post up at Foreign Policy taking Congress to task for … Continue reading
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