Hello World: An Introduction To Afghan Wire
Eager to support Current Intelligence’s continued presence online -- and proud to be associated with a number of very smart people -- I’ll be posting some thoughts on Afghanistan and topics related to...
View ArticleFive Things David Petraeus Wants You To Believe
The problem with milestones is that there’s always another one a little further down the road. Last week we had the NATO meeting in Lisbon, to be followed soon after by the long-anticipated December...
View ArticleVoices
Sometimes there's very little to say; the story speaks for itself...Politics Daily: "A recent Pentagon report, for instance, asserts that U.S. and allied forces and the new strategy announced by Obama...
View ArticleThe Myth of Talqaeda
The purported merger of the Taliban and al-Qaeda is the WMD of the Afghan war. This myth is almost as old as the two groups themselves. There's so much writing on Afghanistan that it's always going...
View ArticleHow to Provoke US Political Initiative
Like many, I have been glued to the live television coverage of the unrest in Egypt over the past week. I am in no way qualified to offer any opinion about what is going on on the ground in Egypt, but...
View ArticleHamlet's Blackberry: How to Reclaim Your Soul
Perspective is always worth the trouble it takes to achieve. For me, this applies as much to Afghanistan -- by visiting another country, for instance -- as it does when examining one’s own choices and...
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