The Afghanistan Study Group report is out, and the fight is on. A number of critiques have been leveled at the report, one of the most influential being Joshua Foust’s over at Registan.net, chunks of which are percolating upward into larger outlets. Foust is a smart guy with whom I regularly debate, but there’s a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Matthew Hoh’
Who’s Really “Relying on Assumptions and Beliefs to Shape Reality” in Afghanistan War Debate?
Posted: September 14, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Afghanistan Study Group, Andrew Exum, COIN, counterinsurgency, Joshua Foust, Matthew Hoh
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An Interview with Matthew Hoh
Posted: November 21, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, COIN, counterinsurgency, Karl Eikenberry, Matthew Hoh, Rethink Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Taliban
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. If Matthew Hoh could tell you one thing to help you understand the U.S.’s predicament in Afghanistan, he’d tell you: The presence of our ground combat troops [...]
Karzai Cartel: Uh, Sure, We’ll Clean Up Corruption!
Posted: November 20, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Brave New Conversations, Daniel Ellsberg, Karim Khalili, Karzai, Matthew Hoh, Mohammed Qasim Fahim, Rethink Afghanistan
Note: Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal. You know what’s funny? Hamid Karzai, Electioneer-in-Chief, stood between these two guys, Mohammed Qasim Fahim and Karim Khalili to declare [h/t and photo credit, Wired's Danger Room blog]: Those who spread corruption should be tried and prosecuted. Corruption is a very dangerous [...]
Matthew Hoh and Daniel Ellsberg Discuss the Need for a Drawdown in Afghanistan
Posted: November 19, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Brave New Conversations, Daniel Ellsberg, Matthew Hoh, Rethink Afghanistan
I’m convinced that when we look back on the key events on the road out of Afghanistan, we’ll mark Matthew Hoh’s resignation as one of the milestones. Hoh’s resignation letter is a devastating four-page indictment of the misguided U.S. policy in that country, and his experience in Anbar, Iraq gave his views heft in the [...]
Senator John Kerry Finds A War With Which He Can Flirt
Posted: October 27, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abdullah, Afghanistan, Andrew Wilder, Ann Jones, COIN, counterinsurgency, John Kerry, Karzai, Matthew Hoh, McChrystal, Paul Pillar
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. Senator John Kerry came back from Afghanistan calling President Hamid Karzai a “patriot” and supportive of a plan “closer to McChrystal than to Biden,” meaning he loves [...]
