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1230 Week: ISAF Goes Full Copperfield with ANA Attrition Numbers
This was originally posted in mid-2013. Since we don’t get these reports anymore, figure a throwback here would be nice. From 2013: This week on the blog I’m looking at the latest Department of Defense...
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Afghan War Now More Dangerous Than Ever
If you’re part of the Noble Order of White Helpfulness, or you’re in Afghanistan as part of Uncle Same’s COINerific Interventiongasm, you have definite feelings about helicopters. They’re either your...
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No, no, I just didn’t get a lot of sleep last night. Hey, you got any Doritos?
June 8, 2012: A policeman in the Afghan Uniformed Police searches a car during a weapon search in Loy Murghoz, Khowst province, Afghanistan, June 8, 2012. The police conducted the patrol with U.S....
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Wanted: New NDS Director
I used to get into arguments with this guy I knew. I thought we were the kind of friends that could do that, you know? The kind of people who could really get after it over something really important,...
View ArticleYou’ve Never Heard About This Arms Deal
In early November, India agreed to send four Mi-25 attack helicopters to Afghanistan. They will be equipped with machine guns, rockets, and grenade launchers, and transferred from Russia — the country...
View ArticleAfghan cops being blamed for Bagram deaths
According to U.S. personnel familiar with the incident, Afghan national police had failed to thoroughly search the suicide bomber and his vehicle before allowing him to proceed through the patrol. In...
View ArticleUNAMA: Afghan Air Force Better Than Ever At Killing Civilians
Everyone agrees that more airpower is the answer to the Afghan security question. “Everyone” in this case being level-headed luminaries like Michael O’Hanlon and David Petraeus. Kids: this is why you...
View ArticleToday In Giving The Afghan Air Force A Pass
The rate at which civilians are being killed by US airstrikes in Afghanistan is at its highest point since 2008, an analysis of newly published UN data reveals. ― US airstrikes in Afghanistan killing...
View ArticleBring On The Night Raids!
Conventional wisdom dictates that night raids in Afghanistan are a bad idea. They’re probably a bad idea anywhere that people would object to being woken from a dead sleep by men with guns who seem to...
View ArticleCold War Redux: US Banning Russian Sales To Afghanistan
If you’re going to go to war with Syria, at some point you’ve got to expect that the Americans are going to take except to an action like that, and they’ll want you to knock that shit off. Unless of...
View ArticleANA Get Their Sun Tzu On, Leave Checkpoints
Spend enough time watching the Afghan National Army (ANA), and you learn that they’re good at a few things. On that list: Letting the Taliban steal their Humvees Not showing up for work Keeping...
View ArticleAll Hail The 11,000
Most of us don’t know a lot about special ops. Because they’re secret. And special. What little we do know about special ops is this: they’re special, which means they’re better than us. Which means...
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