CIVIC on the Ground
Posted by warvictims on July 10, 2009
Der Spiegel
07/09/2009
Behind closed doors, the German government is slowly but surely changing the rules for combat on Afghanistan, allowing its forces to take a more offensive approach. At the same time, German popular support for the “war” that no one wants to a call war continues to decline. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on July 10, 2009
TIME
By Mark Thompson in Washington and Aryn Baker in Kabu
07/09/2009
The headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul looks more like a college campus than the nerve center of a military operation involving more than 90,000 troops from 41 countries, its staff officers roaming the halls in each nation’s distinct patterns of camouflage. On July 3, on a wooden deck at the back of his office in the compound, shaded by trees and a garden umbrella, U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, who recently became ISAF’s commander, and that of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, sat down to discuss his new role. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on July 10, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
KABUL — The new commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, announced: “The Afghan people are at the center of our mission. In reality, they are the mission.” The four-star general was wearing military fatigues, but his wording sounded civilian. Indeed, when President Obama explained in March how the United States plans “to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” he ordered a “civilian surge” in Afghanistan. But make no mistake: The civilian part of the coalition operations here is subservient to the military arm, and the two are known together as an “integrated approach.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on July 9, 2009
By Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY
Posted in Actors, Afghanistan, Bomb, Car Bomb, Central Asia, Country, Government, ISAF, Insurgents, Military, NATO/Allies, Region, Tactics, Taliban, Type of Harm | Tagged: Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Helmand, IEDs, improvised explosive devices, Insurgents, Nato, roadside bomb attacks, roadside bombs, US troops | Leave a Comment »
Posted by warvictims on July 9, 2009
By ABDUL WAHEED WAFA and ALAN COWELL
KABUL, Afghanistan — A huge explosion in a truck Thursday killed 24 people south of Kabul, including 16 schoolchildren, 4 policemen and 4 bystanders, local officials said, as the death toll among foreign soldiers fighting in Afghanistan rose. Read the rest of this entry »
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