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HVTs and the Taliban Decapitation Campaign

From Strategy Page: Between April and July of this year, U.S. and allied (including Afghan) special operations forces killed nearly 400 Taliban leaders, and arrested another 1,400 Taliban. All this was...

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Degrading Security in Afghanistan

In my younger years I trained quarter horses.  Naturally, I was both surprised and excited to see an article about taking rodeos from Texas to Afghanistan.  I expected stories about how the Afghans...

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High Value Target Campaign is Failing in Afghanistan

From Greg Miller with The Washington Post: An intense military campaign aimed at crippling the Taliban has so far failed to inflict more than fleeting setbacks on the insurgency or put meaningful...

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Taliban Turning the Tables on Special Operations Forces Night Raids

From The Guardian: Taliban commanders claim they are foiling intensified night-time attacks by elite troops that Nato officials hoped would bring the insurgents to the negotiating table in Afghanistan....

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Hamid Karzai: Defeater of the High Value Target Program

Regular readers know that I am no proponent of the high value target program.  The middle of the night raids by SOF operators, the temporary stays in prison, the quick release, the lack of embedded of...

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The HVT Campaign and New Breed of Taliban Commanders

From The Telegraph: The special forces onslaught hailed by Nato as helping turn the momentum against the Taliban was in fact making peace more remote he claimed. Mullah Abdul Hakim Mujahid, a deputy...

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Anwar al-Awlaki, U.S. Citizen, Killed in Yemen?

So apparently al Qaeda propagandist, Anwar al-Awlaki, was killed in Yemen by a CIA-led strike.  So this raises some important questions. First off, while my friend Michael Ledeen wants to support the...

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If the CIA built an intelligence network, SOF could do the job

From The Tennessean: They were the first Americans into Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks and will probably be the last U.S. forces to leave. As most American troops prepare to withdraw in 2014,...

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Drones and the War Against Militant Islam: Useful Tool or Game Changer?

One of my favorite historians and conservative thinkers, Victor Davis Hanson, published a provocative article over at NRO, “The Predator-in-Chief.” In this article, Hanson basically observes the irony...

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