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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 [...]

According to Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a Democratic congressman from New York, ‘the Bush administration permitted the world’s most notorious terrorist mastermind to escape because it needed additional justification to invade Iraq.’ The lawmaker ‘accused President Bush of purposely letting Osama bin Laden escape capture in order to justify the [...]

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; [...]

As U.S President Barack Obama convenes with his cabinet and his senior military commanders to revise the the U.S policy in Afghanistan, the country witnessed another spate of deadly insurgent attacks that carried a ripple of terror across Afghanistan. Separate bombings and shooting attacks throughout Afghanistan, killed 12 people that included four [...]

It is said that there are ‘two poles in Washington: the counterinsurgency experts, or COIN-istas, who believe Afghanistan’s deteriorating security can only be reversed by adding tens of thousands of troops – perhaps as many as 80,000; and those who believe US interests in Afghanistan are few, and the best way to keep it on a low simmer is [...]

According to a recent US government report, ‘people on the government’s terrorist watch list tried to buy guns nearly 1,000 times in the last five years, and federal authorities cleared the purchases 9 times out of 10 because they had no legal way to stop them.’ Having your name on the US government’s terrorist watch list is ‘not enough [...]

While the terrain is, indeed, extremely rugged, the area along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border is heavily populated, contrary to popular belief. The area of the FATA has millions of Pakistani residents, and most of them are ‘extremely conservative and hostile toward the Pakistani government.’ In 1998, South Waziristan had a population of nearly [...]

The US war on the Taliban is founded on something deeper, but actually more obvious, than waging a war against militant insurgency and/or ideology. ‘The short answer is that today, as has been the case since 1979, neither a specific ‘militant’ nor ‘ideology’ is ‘being fought.’ Rather, the target of operations, for which more troops are [...]