…surplus became a deficit. 5. Passage of the Patriot Act. 6. Invasion of Afghanistan in response to the Sept 11 attacks. Note that by April 2003, the Taliban insurgency was…

…failure (Overt force) 1991 – Bulgaria (BSP; communist): success (Subverted election) 1992 – Afghanistan (Najibullah; communist): success (Covert operation) 1993 – Somalia (Aidid; right/militarist): failure (Overt force) 1993 – Cambodia…

Tina Brown introduces: Gary Cohen, Executive Vice President, BD Geeta Rao Gupta, Senior Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Richard C. Holbrooke , Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S….

…Afghanistan? All right? Because everyone who’s tried, over a thousand years of history, has failed. And there are reasons for that. There are other ways to engage in Afghanistan.” Michael…

by Linda Beale (cross posted at ataxingmatter) One can question the timing of implementation, but can one argue against the financing? …Rdan War taxes? Since Bush invaded Afghanistan in 2001…

…mandated Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan that, since 2004, her staff had sent 32 cases of suspected overbilling, bribery and other possible violations of the law to…

…old rules – and for the first time, that includes the full cost of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. For seven years, we have been a nation at war. No…

…Bosnia and Herzegovina, over a thousand miles from the battlefield in Afghanistan. All six held Bosnian citizenship or lawful permanent residence as well as native Algerian citizenship. Arrested by Bosnian…

…the DoD not be refitting the force structure worn out in Iraq and Afghanistan and then some, a huge sum for procurement? Figure 1 below shows procurement increasing while R&D…

Another post from the counteterrorism blog from WAPO has a different twist: What the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan have in common is that it will take a major and…