Jan 6, 2011
The Nation, by Greg Kaufmann, January 3, 2011 [An interview with Michael Shank, senior policy adviser for Congressman Michael Honda, chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s Afghanistan Taskforce] Shank came to DC after ten years of development work in...
Oct 23, 2010
The Pentagon is dependent upon contractors in the Afghanistan war. But many of the security companies are undermining – or even working against the US war effort. On the job: A US contractor turned away as a helicopter departed a combat outpost in Kandahar,...
Oct 12, 2010
October 3rd, 2010 by Jake Chapnick One of the reasons the West fails to comprehensively understand Afghanistan and its people is because there has been limited access to its rural areas. According to the United Nations, there are over 10,000 settlements in that...
Oct 9, 2010
By HELENE COOPER, NYT, October 9, 2010 IN the panoply of national security conundrums facing the Obama administration, there is one that stands central. Can the United States ever succeed in the Afghanistan war if its two principal allies mistrust each other? Indeed,...
Sep 8, 2010
By Greg Jaffe Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 4, 2010; 1:32 PM KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN – U.S. commanders in southern Afghanistan are adopting a strategy that increasingly places the priority on fighting the Taliban even if that means tolerating...
