Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Lanes, Lies, Power, and Politics - Biden's NatSec Problem

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The United States' Secretary of State, Tony Blinken - again the Secretary of State - is so out of his lane right here it is hard to tel...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Fullbore Friday

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It can take awhile sometimes, but at last Master Chief Slabinski is recognized appropriately . During the early morning on March 4, 2002...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

A Stain Unfaded by Time: a Year After the Fall of Kabul

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All month I tried to ... no ... I asked myself to come up with something good at the 1-yr anniversary of the national humiliation that was o...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11, With Toby Harnden - on Midrats

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As described on Amazon,  "Eight CIA officers are dropped into the mountains of northern Afghanistan on October 17, 2001. They are Team ...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

The Afghanistan Papers, with Craig Whitlock - on Midrats

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  Five presidents from both political parties oversaw the two decade debacle in Afghanistan that ended in the national humiliation at the en...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

McMaster to Everyone: We Lack Basic Competence

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People who have both friends and enemies on the political left and the political right are, for me at least, some of the most interesting in...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month

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I've always wished we stayed aligned with our Commonwealth allies and stuck with 11 November as Remembrance Day. Yes, we have Memorial D...
Saturday, November 06, 2021

The NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan - Hopes & Lessons - on Midrats

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  In what history will show was a failed effort, for almost two decades, the most advanced military and police forces in the West tried to b...
Sunday, October 17, 2021

The Navy in Afghanistan at Flood Tide: PRT Khost - on Midrats

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  Afghanistan is a land locked nation, but in the USA’s two-decade presence in that country, her Navy was there from the beginning to end se...
Friday, October 15, 2021

Fullbore Friday

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Barely six-weeks old, our retreat and national humiliation in Afghanistan for many of us has been I wrote the below almost exactly six years...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Words begat actions which create history

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Have you been less than pleased by the squishy use of words the last few months by our senior leadership when it comes to what we all saw tr...
Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Oh, so the UN Will Make Afghanistan Work?

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Will someone please save us from our experts?  Question everyone. Defer to no one.  If you have learned nothing the last two decades, at lea...
Monday, September 27, 2021

Jake Sullivan: The Well Protected Golden Boy

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We’ve all seen it; those who promote, protect, and mentor the “deep select” Golden Boy become personally – and professionally – invested in ...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Preliminary Commander's POSTEX on Afghanistan

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CNN’s summary of Sunday’s 2-hr documentary on Afghanistan has some interesting quotes from the commanders – and a few errors – I thought we...
Saturday, September 11, 2021

Twenty Years

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It was just another hot, process filled day for a mid-grade LCDR in Bahrain when the brief flush of the post-Cold War peace ended and the wo...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

The Fall of Kabul: a Complete Death of Hope

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I don't think the US press has done anything like this, yet.  In a way, perhaps this is best. To get a good view of our great national h...
Sunday, September 05, 2021

Fullbore Friday

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Right now throughout Afghanistan and the different ways out of that nation, Americans, Brits, and others are doing all they can to fill in t...
Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Kabul's Child Sacrifice

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It wasn't supposed to end like this. If in the early fall of 2001, just as we just finished OPERATION RHINO, someone at C5F put up a pi...