Examining Obama’s Afghan Plan, Part III: Growing the Domestic Security Force.

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 7th at 10:00 AM  | 

Author’s note: This is the third installment in a seven-part series analyzing the Obama administration’s strategy for the Afghan front in the War on Terror. The administration’s white paper can be seen here, and previous installments in this series can be seen here. THE SMALL NUMBER OF TRAINED, reliable, and effective Afghan National Security Forces presents a serious holdup in the effort to secure Afghanistan | Read More »

Examining Obama’s Afghan Plan, Part II: A ‘Surge’ in Soldiers and Civilians

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 6th at 11:19 AM  | 

Author’s note: This is the second installment in a seven-part series analyzing the Obama administration’s strategy for the Afghan front in the War on Terror. The administration’s white paper can be seen here, and part one of this series, “Examining Obama’s Afghan Plan: Introduction,” can be seen here. PRESIDENT OBAMA’S IMPENDING ‘SURGE’ in the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan has been public knowledge for | Read More »

Examining Obama’s Afghan Plan: Introduction

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  April 5th at 01:49 PM  | 

AFTER NEARLY TWO YEARS of campaigning on a platform of hasty withdrawal from Iraq and a refocusing of American efforts on Afghanistan, a country Democrats have spent years referring to as the location of “the real War on Terror,” President Barack Obama has come out with an overview of his administration’s strategy for the region. Unfortunately, as often seems to be the case when Obama | Read More »