Sats Spot 3 Miles of NATO Supply Trucks Bottlenecked in Pakistan
Pakistan’s 10-day blockade against NATO convoys has ended, but a new video released by a commercial satellite company shows just how massive the consequences were: a sprawling, three-mile bottleneck of...
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Did a New Rocket Help Rout the Taliban? Depends What You Mean by ‘New’ and...
Amazingly, just a few months after NATO and Afghan troops gradually stepped up operations in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar, the insurgents have fled, with a return unlikely. At least, that’s the...
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Untold Millions in Afghan Aid MIA
One indicator of how the U.S. throws money down the black hole known as the Afghanistan government: no one can tell how much money it’s paid to literally thousands of Afghan government workers....
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What Surge? NATO Says it Needs More Trainers for Afghan Cops
The good news: lots more Afghan soldiers and police are fighting the Taliban, thanks to an overhaul of their training last year. The bad: even after the surge, NATO still doesn’t have enough troops to...
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Bombs Away: Afghan Air War Peaks With 1,000 Strikes in October
The U.S. and its allies have unleashed a massive air campaign in Afghanistan, launching missiles and bombs from the sky at a rate rarely seen since the war’s earliest days. In October alone, NATO...
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Marines’ Instant Gunship Blasts Taliban, Pentagon Bureaucracy
At first glance, the Marine Corps’ hottest new weapon looks just like a standard cargo plane. For the “Harvest Hawk” gunship, the external differences are subtle. A sensor pod jutting from one of the...
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Afghan Ultraviolence: Petraeus Triples Air War
November is ordinarily the month when the air war in Afghanistan — and really, the whole American-led campaign — ratchets down for the winter. This November, with Gen. David Petraeus in charge of the...
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Pentagon Preps Afghans for Trillion-Dollar Treasure Hunt
The Pentagon wants the world to know: When the American military stops spending billions per week in Afghanistan and eventually goes home, the Afghan economy is gonna be totally fine. After all,...
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Pentagon Looks to Sabotage Pakistan’s Bomb Supply
The Pentagon's bomb squad has a new idea to thwart Afghan insurgents' weapon of choice: by adding chemicals that'd render its main ingredient non-explosive or even make it lethal to the bomb builders...
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For Military Psych Boards, There Is (Almost) No Insanity Defense
Before he sets foot in a military courtroom to be tried on 17 counts of premeditated murder, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales will face a different kind of judgment. Called a sanity board hearing, it's...
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