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. All hail the birth of Afghan democracy! The willingness of Americans to allow our political leaders to spend $1 million per troop, per [...]
Posts Tagged ‘McChrystal’
The Winner of the Afghan Election: Electoral Fraud
Posted: October 21, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Abdullah, Afghanistan, COIN, counterinsurgency, Karzai, McChrystal, Nagl, Petraeus, Rethink Afghanistan, U.S. Army, U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual
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Al-Qaida Doesn’t Need Your Stupid Safe Havens
Posted: October 16, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Qaida, COIN, counterinsurgency, McChrystal, networks, Paul Pillar, Rethink Afghanistan, scale-free networks
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. As the president and his war council (Pollyanna asks: never a peace council?) meet to finalize the latest most updated new new new [...]
Faith in the System
Posted: October 9, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Ansary, COIN, counterinsurgency, Jesus, McChrystal, myth of redemptive violence, Nobel Peace Prize, nonviolence, Obama, Rethink Afghanistan
There are no small acts of violence. Each act is an outward manifestation of a set of assumptions, frames and beliefs, the outworking of a small set of rules in each person that, when acted upon in social and political settings, give rise to a system greater than the sum of its parts. At the [...]
Evaluating Operation Khanjar
Posted: October 5, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, IEDs, improvised explosive devices, ISAF, McChrystal, NATO, Operation Khanjar, Rethink Afghanistan, suicide bombings
Push into Helmand triggered severe spike in civilian death rate, failed its objectives 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. ISAF commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal set out a clear marker [...]
Is this what “shielding Afghans from violence” looks like?
Posted: October 1, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, civilian deaths, COIN, counterinsurgency, escalation, McChrystal, Rethink Afghanistan
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. During his confirmation hearing, General McChrystal said: American success in Afghanistan should be measured by “the number of Afghans shielded from violence,” not [...]
Escalation Rumors Escalate
Posted: August 12, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, McChrystal, Rethink Afghanistan, War Resisters league, war spending
It looks like reports of an escalation’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. This weekend, Obama’s National Security Advisor, Jim Jones, went on CBS’ “Face the Nation” to let us know that he never told commanders in Afghanistan that they’d have to make do with what they had. And, General McChrystal gave an interview to the [...]
On Afghanistan, Five-Sided Backpedaling
Posted: August 6, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Congressional Research Service, escalation, Levin, Lieberman, McChrystal, Obama, Rory Stewart
The Pentagon is backpedaling on leaked reports of pending troop increase requests from Gen. McChrystal. WASHINGTON, Aug 5 (Reuters) – An assessment of the war in Afghanistan by the top U.S. and NATO commander there is no longer expected by mid-August and will not include a request for extra troops, the Pentagon said on Wednesday. [...]
Troop Increases Fail to Decrease Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
Posted: July 31, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, civilian casualties, McChrystal, troop increase
The Washington Post today reports that Gen. McChrystal is likely about to request more troops for the stated rationale of protecting the civilian population in Afghanistan. President Obama should deny this request because no past increase in U.S. troops in Afghanistan prevented a subsequent yearly increase in a) civilian casualties generally or b) civilian casualties [...]
