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In Council on Foreign Relations, Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor of CFR.org, interviews Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, CFR. Boot sums up the Marjah offensive as US troops ‘trying to take out probably the biggest remaining Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province, which has been a safe haven not only [...]

Let us not kid ourselves. The heart of war is combat. David Price, a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologist and author of Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War, writes a counterpunch exclusive on the Human Terrain Systems (HTS). The HTS is a program by the United States Army [...]

Yvonne Ridley, a British Journalist and author of In The Hands of the Taliban, boldly asserts in counterpunch that the huge military offensive codenamed Operation Moshtarak that caused the evacuation of residents in the town of Marjah in Afghanistan is ethnic cleansing. The purported ISAF pacification offensive grandly launched in what is described [...]

The Afghan surge can’t defeat terrorist ideology, experts say. According to Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, ‘President Obama should have used his speech to declare victory and announce the start of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan instead of an escalation. Even if the surge achieves its immediate mission—at huge cost—the operation [...]

The world was waiting U.S President Barack Obama to outline his strategy for Afghanistan and now that he has given the go ahead for troop reinforcements to Afghanistan amounting to 30,000 U.S personnel, NATO and its member states have also come around and announced that, they will in all commit 5,000 NATO troops to carry on the military operations in [...]

General McChrystal does not get his ‘40,000 new troops in order to hold the “major” cities and secure the population from the Taliban.’ He only gets a part of it. Obama did very recently order for additional troops to Afghanistan, but only about 75 percent of McChrystal’s request. McChrystal’s plan, though, is by no means crystal [...]

There has been much confusion as to why the US persists to wage its war in Afghanistan when its target is al-Qaeda, a hugely diminished presence in Afghanistan, and not the Taliban, an ethnic group of domestic insurgents merely fighting for their cause in their local turf. US President Barack Obama, however, calls the war in Afghanistan a “war of [...]

The US is currently lamenting that if only it had sent a sufficient enough force to Afghanistan back in 2001, it would have already captured Osama bin Laden in December of hat year. ‘The Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s report says that a robust American force could have barred bin Laden’s escape in the Afghan mountains of Tora Bora; [...]

On his landmark visit to the Peoples Republic of China, the U.S President, Barack Obama stated that, the international terrorist outfit, Al-Qaeda is still very much the greatest threat that the United States faces as of now. The statement comes at a time when the Obama administration is stepping up its pressure on Pakistani authorities to combat the [...]

America’s war machine, the Pentagon is expected to move the U.S Congress for additional funding on an urgent basis that will be used to supplement the current funds and wage a prolonged campaign in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff stated that the war efforts in these two theaters require additional funds, that would [...]