Peter Dow’s “no” to Taliban’s surrender terms. Afpak strategy for victory in war on terror. (YouTube) CBS News: Divisions within Taliban make peace elusive Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made news Wednesday when he said the combat role for U.S. troops in Afghanistan could end next year instead of 2014. On Thursday, he took a step back — insisting U.S. forces will remain combat ready — | Read More »
Afghan mob kills UN workers. On Friday, April 1st 2011, an angry mob was incited to attack a UN compound in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan. The mob stormed the base and 7 UN workers were killed. 4 British-trained Nepalese soldiers or “Gurkhas”, Lt. Col. Siri Skare, a 53-year-old Norwegian military attaché—a former fighter pilot—seconded to the U.N., along with Joakim Dungel, a 33-year-old Swede who had been | Read More »
Secure border for a supply route – 19 kilometres or 12 miles wide Secure supply route border defences plan diagram (large – 960 x 1374 pixels) As can be seen in the diagram, the border perimeter defences are much the same whether you are securing a railway or a road. Diagram features. Explained for secure Afghanistan supply routes. Dangerous ground Enemy forces such as the | Read More »
OK as every general will tell you, poorly defended supply lines are a problem in any war. House subcommittee on National Security and Foreign affairs chairman, Rep. John F. Tierney, D-Mass – YouTube- U.S. funds our enemy Taliban’s Afghan war U.S. Tax Dollars Fueling Afghan Insurgency House Investigation: Private Contractors Paying Warlords, Criminals to Get Supplies to U.S. and NATO Bases Lara Logan reports for | Read More »
Condoleezza Rice und deutsche Wiedervereinigung / and German reunification (YouTube) Condoleezza Rice at the Malta Summit with USA. President George H. W. Bush and USSR General Secretary Mikhail S. Gorbachev in December 1989, on board the Soviet cruise ship Maxim Gorky, Marsaxlokk Harbour, Malta. Condoleezza Rice attends for the signing of The Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany in Moscow, USSR, on | Read More »
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