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Is Iran Meddling
Is Iran providing weapons to the Taliban? The U.S. military thinks so. The Pentagon has recovered evidence in western Afghanistan, near the border with Iran, of weapons and explosives bearing markings indicating they were made in Iran. These are the same types of weapons that flowed into Iraq during the height of the war. Experts think the weapons actually come from Iran's Revolutionary Guards and their Quds force. The question under examination now is the extent to which the Iranian government is involved.
Tags: technology , Pentagon , Iran , Taliban , military ,
NATO is Critical
Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen says NATO is critically important Afghanistan. He says "what sometimes gets lost is there are 42 countries who are working in Afghanistan to try to get this right". Mullen adds a lot of international leaders are focused on that war "and where NATO is providing capability, NATO's got thousands of troops there as well."
Tags: technology , Pentagon , Mike Mullen , NATO ,
The Pak/Afghan War
President Barack Obama said he got the commitments he wanted yesterday from the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan. What he got were promises from them to take the fight to the Taliban and al-Qaida. The terrorist organizations are growing in stature and are becoming more brazen. At the same time the U.S. military is dealing with reports that U.S. forces accidentally killed dozens of civilians in Afghanistan. In the middle of the chaos, there are reports the Taliban killed civilians and paraded them around claiming U.S. forces did it.
Tags: Pentagon , Obama , Taliban
Decision on Afghanistan
Deciding what to do in Afghanistan will take awhile longer. Reuters is reporting the White House has put off consideration of sending more troops to Afghanistan while it assesses whether its war strategy can still work after a flawed election that cast doubt on the Kabul government's legitimacy, officials said on Tuesday. The Pentagon had initially expected the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Army General Stanley McChrystal, to make a request for more soldiers soon after delivering his confidential assessment on the war.
Tags: technology , Pentagon , White House , NATO , Stanley McChrystal
Update from Afghanistan
J.J. Green blogs from Afghanistan -- where he's no longer stuck.
Live from Afghanistan: an update from JJ Green
An inside-look from half-a-world away
Obama still weighing options in Afghanistan
Tags: mngt , Jeff Dressler , Institute for the Study of War
Contractor whistleblower feared retaliation
Tags: P&B , whistleblower , Debra Roth , Shaw, Bransford, Veilleux and Roth
Change of command, change of direction
Tags: security , Stanley McChrystal , Michael O'Hanlon , Brookings Institution
JJ Green, in Afghanistan, on a mission
Many of the local Afghans here are struggling to stay warm and to eat and find work. They're also worried about the late night visits from the Taliban to harass them. Another big concern is the U.S. troops engaged in a tough fight against an enemy deeply rooted in this region.
