Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. Yesterday, October officially became the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since the war began. The death toll was pushed over that grim marker by improvised [...]
Archive for October 28, 2009
IED Deaths Make October Deadliest Month for U.S. Forces Since Beginning of War in Afghanistan
Posted: October 28, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, casualties, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, IEDs, improvised explosive devices, Rethink Afghanistan, troop deaths
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Lost in the Afghan Labyrinth
Posted: October 28, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abdul Rashid Dostum, Abu Muqwama, Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Kharzai, Andrew Exum, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, COIN, counterinsurgency, Dexter Filkins, Haji Mohammed Mohaqiq, Hamid Karzai, Helene Cooper, James Risen, John Kerry, labyrinth, Mark Mazzetti, Michael Flynn, Mohammed Qasim Fahim, Muhammed Karim Khalili, Rethink Afghanistan, Steve Hynd
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. Learn how the war in Afghanistan undermines U.S. security: watch Rethink Afghanistan (Part Six), & visit http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog. My previous post intentionally left out mentions of Senator John Kerry’s defense of Ahmed Wali Karzai–the drug-dealing, election stealing, possibly Taliban-connected brother of the Afghan president–in an [...]
