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US President Barack Obama is expected to hand down soon his decision on the war in Afghanistan. The decision at this point is no longer whether to send more troops to Afghanistan or not, but how many tens of thousands of additional US soldiers should be sent to the wartorn country to fight a long-drawn war. U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal wants to put [...]

An American official in Afghanistan says, “We assess that the primary focus of attacks in northern provinces such as Kunduz is to create a perception that the insurgency is spreading like wildfire. But I think it’s more of an ‘information operations’ success.” Amidst Obama’s quandary of whether to approve the request of US generals for [...]

Tactical failures such as missing the target and not rounding up the enemy are generally considered “failure of intelligence.” So, the US military operations in Afghanistan, frustrated that the Taliban are even actually winning the war, want to augment the usual military espionage with CIA covert operations. Thus, the CIA will expand its undercover [...]