Today 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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