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Fri Sep 5, 1:55 PM ETIn this Aug. 23, 2008 file photo, an Afghan woman shouts anti-U.S. slogans in front of her destroyed home in Azizabad, the village in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. Disillusionment is widespread in Afghanistan, feeding an insurgency that has killed 195 foreign soldiers so far this year, 105 of them Americans.

Musa Qala Adapting to the Realities of Modern Counterinsurgency by Thomas Donnelly and Gary J. Schmitt, Small Wars Journal Musa Qala (Full PDF Article) This SWJ article is an excerpt from a forthcoming American Enterprise Institute study on the war in Afghanistan and NATO’s future.

Major General Jeffrey Schloesser, Commander of Combined Joint Task Force-101 and Commanding General of the 101st Airborne Division, spoke via satellite with reporters at the Pentagon on 5 September 2008. More Troops Needed in Afghanistan, General Says By Gerry J. Gilmore American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Sept.

A camp for displaced people in the southern Iraqi city of Kut. Photo courtesy of Ayub Nuri. This week on War News Radio, we look at how ethnic diversity is changing in Iraqi neighborhoods. First, hear from Iraqis who have left their homes for more homogeneous neighborhoods. Alex Imas and Ayub Nuri report.

Un groupe de 350 parachutistes basés à Carcassonne est en partance, ce vendredi pour l'Afghanistan. Ces valeureux soldats vont relever les effectifs sur place, quelques jours après la mort de 10 militaires français à l'Est de Kaboul. Des kamikazes...

Le faux scoop afghan d’Eric de la Varène et Véronique de Viguerie ven, 05/09/2008 - 17:54 Mots-clés: Afghanistan Eric de la Varène Paris-Match talibans Véronique de Viguerie

L'embuscade qui a coûté la vie à dix soldats français le 18 août dernier a rappelé à notre pays (NDLR : la France) ce que d'autres nations engagées dans l'ISAF savaient déjà (à l'image du Canada dont les pertes s'élèvent à 93 hommes) : « Nous assistons au retour des opérations de guerre », pour

PJB: Distant Drums at Sarah’s Party by Patrick J. Buchanan ST. PAUL, Minn. — The American Right has just died and gone to heaven. Last night’s convention address by Sarah Palin here in St. Paul has confirmed the bold decision of John McCain to choose the Alaska governor as his co-pilot and united the Republican Party as it has not been since the second term of Ronald Reagan.

Non mais entendez-les s'offusquer, regardez-les se draper dans leur dignité offusquée parce qu'un magazine qui fut en son temps (il y a bien longtemps, hélas...) un phare de la profession publie des photos - mises en scène d'accord - mais réelles de ceux qui ont filé une pâtée à l'armée française.

“Nearly 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer†According to the Defense Department, 65 soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period. In the same time period, an estimated 245 people were shot and wounded in the city.