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Posts Tagged War in Afghanistan
U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle Over Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 8/Oct/2010 22:36
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A U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle from the 335th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, conducts operations over eastern Afghanistan, Nov. 26. Photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Keller
5th SBCT Troops Patrol Afghan West of FOB Ramrod Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 8/Oct/2010 22:34
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Spc. Lucas Yonkman of Alpha Troop, 8th Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team inspects a digging device next to a large hole along with an Afghan national army service member. Photo by Sgt. Chris Florence
Dismounted Patrol near Combat Outpost Herrera
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 8/Oct/2010 22:31
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U.S. Army Sgt. Zachary Adkins, from Sweetland, W.Va., conducts a dismounted patrol with his platoon near Combat Outpost Herrera, Paktiya province, Afghanistan, Oct. 11, 2009. The Soldiers were searching for sites from which the Taliban has been using to fire rockets at the outpost. Adkins is deployed with Apache Troop, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment. Photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Smith
Civil Military Support Team provide security during visit with Chief of Police Col. Abdul Rauf
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 8/Oct/2010 22:30
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U.S. Army Spc. Clarence Wright, an artilleryman with the Civil Military Support Team and an Andrews, S.C. resident, along with an Afghan National Policemen provide security during a visit with Chief of Police Col. Abdul Rauf, Ghulam Ali, Parwan province, Oct. 5. Korean Provincial Reconstruction Team Leader Won Hyuk Im visits with Col. Rauf to discuss further assistance with training the ANP. Photo by Spc Kristina Gupton
Counterinsurgency
This past weekend former Australian Army officer David Kilcullen was on C-SPAN talking about his new book Counterinsurgency.
US drone strike kills 8 militants in North Waziristan, Pakistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 5/Sep/2010 21:21
“Eight militants, including three foreign fighters, were killed and 12 more injured when a US drone targeted their compound in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan.
The drone fired two missiles at a compound in Datta Khel village, 45km west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan Agency late last night, security officials said today.
Foreign militants killed in the attack included Arabs and Central Asians linked to al-Qaeda, officials said.
This was the third US drone strike in the region in 24 hours.
The area was targeted by US missiles twice on Friday, killing six militants in the first strike and four foreign militants in another.”
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/us-drone-strike-kills-8-militants-north-waziristan
General David Petraeus initiates plan to begin to “thin out” his forces.
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 5/Sep/2010 18:42
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates (r) is greeted by top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives in Kabul, 2 Sept 2010
“The commander of U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan said Thursday that he has asked his officers to provide “initial assessments” of where he can begin to “thin out” his forces.
General Petraeus said he asked his staff to make plans to reduce their forces in relatively stable areas…
Petraeus is up against a deadline set by President Obama to begin a U.S. troop withdrawal next July.
The general indicated he does not expect to send home large units or to hand over large areas to Afghan security control. Rather, he said, at the beginning of the process, he will do what the United States did in Iraq and elsewhere – gradually reduce the U.S. troop presence in specific areas.
“You thin out, you don’t just sort of hand them the baton and say, ‘It’s yours,'” he said.
U.S. officials say the initial withdrawal will be small and that additional drawdowns will be based on security conditions in each part of the country.”
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/Petraeus-Plans-for-Start-of-US-Withdrawal-from-Afghanistan-Next-Year-102096528.html
Militancy and the U.S. Drawdown in Afghanistan
Militancy and the U.S. Drawdown in Afghanistan is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
By Scott Stewart
The drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq has served to shift attention toward Afghanistan, where the United States has been increasing its troop strength in hopes of forming conditions conducive to a political settlement. This is similar to the way it used the 2007 surge in Iraq to help reach a negotiated settlement with the Sunni insurgents that eventually set the stage for withdrawal there. As we’ve discussed elsewhere, the Taliban at this point do not feel the pressure required for them to capitulate or negotiate and therefore continue to follow their strategy of surviving and waiting for the coalition forces to depart so that they can again make a move to assume control over Afghanistan.
Indeed, with the United States having set a deadline of July 2011 to begin the drawdown of combat forces in Afghanistan — and with many of its NATO allies withdrawing sooner — the Taliban can sense that the end is near. As they wait expectantly for the departure of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from Afghanistan, a look at the history of militancy in Afghanistan provides a bit of a preview of what could follow the U.S. withdrawal. Read the rest of this entry »
Afghan Elemetary Education: For Soldiers
From Wired’s Danger Room
Right now, only 18 percent of those 243,000 cops and grunts have more than a Kindergarten-level ability to read. Which means they’ve got major trouble doing everything from keeping track of their gear to following a battle plan to getting paid, the general in charge of the NATO training effort says.
“We’re talking about giving them anywhere from between a first grade-level education to about a third grade-level education. For many back in America, that’s really hard to comprehend. And I understand that. It was for me, too.â€
Why do we have to find this information on a technology website? Why can’t the news networks do this kind of reporting? Why can’t the president explain that this is why it is taking so long for that backward country to pull itself out of the 3rd century?
4 US soldiers killed in eastern Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 22/Aug/2010 15:06
KABUL, Afghanistan – Four U.S. troops were killed in fighting in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Sunday, and a former guerrilla leader who battled Soviet invaders decades ago was killed by a roadside bomb in the country’s north.
Three of the U.S. casualties died in insurgent attacks and one was killed by a homemade bomb, NATO said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100822/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan;_ylt=AimUqSrP5OZlMnsgYruGr4B0fNdF
Canadian child soldier comforted himself by thinking about killing an American soldier
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 12/Aug/2010 16:51
In this photo of a sketch by courtroom artist Janet Hamlin and reviewed by a U.S. Department of Defense official, Canadian Omar Khadr attends jury selection for his war crimes trial at the courthouse for the U.S. military war crimes commission in the Camp Justice compound of Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base (AP Photo/Janet Hamlin, Pool)
Toronto-born Omar Khadr, who was 15 when he was captured in 2002, is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a Delta Force medic after a firefight in Afghanistan.
“When asked what he was most proud of in his life, he said conducting the operations against the Americans.”
“He was there because his father told him to go there,” Jackson said. “He was there because Ahmed Khadr hated his enemies more than he loved his son.”
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/08/12/4874159-prosecutors-gitmo-inmate-took-pride-in-slaying
Treating a Nomad Boy
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 12/Aug/2010 16:44
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 Spc. Britane Y. Whipple, a combat medic of Charlie Company 1-48th Brigade Support Battalion Evacuation Platoon treats the skin of a nomad boy during a medical drop held in Kabul District 7, Kabul province, Afghanistan, Oct. 24.
Taliban X: The next generation of terrorists
Posted by Gary in News, Threat Watch on 10/Aug/2010 11:42
From: The Washington Examiner
Afghan police at the site where a suicide car bomber struck a police vehicle outside Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. Two police officers died in the blast, according to the provincial government.(AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi) (AP)
Early last month, Taliban suicide bombers, all believed to be in their early 20s, raided a compound of an American contractor in a northern province of Afghanistan, killing four security officers and themselves.
A month earlier, a boy about 13 years old crashed a wedding party in Kandahar and detonated his suicide vest, killing more than 40 people and wounding more than 80.
Those attacks are part of a troubling trend, according to some U.S. intelligence officers, in which young Afghanis radicalized by nearly nine years of war with Western forces are opting for suicide martyrdom rather than the traditional role of conventional fighting under a local warlord.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/Taliban-X_-The-next-generation-of-terrorists-1008566-100291009.html#ixzz0wDpPR5Xz
Taliban Claims Responsibility for Killing ‘Christian Missionaries’
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 7/Aug/2010 15:56
Photo: AP Dirk Frans, director of the International Assistance Mission, talks to the Associated Press at their office in Kabul, 07 Aug 2010
“The Taliban has claimed responsibility for killing ten people, including foreigners, after the bodies were found in dense forest in northern Afghanistan.
The International Assistance Mission, a Christian charity providing health services to the Afghan people, said on its website Saturday the dead people are … were returning to Kabul after working in Nuristan.
The bullet-riddled bodies were discovered Friday.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed told the French news agency a patrol confronted the “Christian missionaries and we killed them all.”
Taliban Attacks Kill 11 Afghan Policemen
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 11/Jul/2010 15:31
Kochis (Afghan nomads) on their way from their winter settlement in Kunduz province to the Shiva pastures in Badakshan.
The Kunduz Valley, Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, 1975 © Luke Powell
“KABUL, Afghanistan — Eleven police officers and a district governor were killed in three separate attacks by the Taliban in northeast Afghanistan, NATO and local officials said on Sunday.
Two took place in Kunduz Province, and the third was just outside the province. Throughout the early years of the Afghan war, most insurgent activity was focused in the south, with the north remaining relatively calm. But in the past two years, violence in the north has grown dramatically, especially in Kunduz Province.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/world/asia/12afghan.html?_r=1