Dear Editor, Here are a pair of insightful glimpses into the ground conditions in Afghanistan. For those of you who have been there, you will no doubt recognize that each contains at least some truth. Many members of the public at large, however, will not. The first is the companion piece to
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Taking credit for gains achieved as a result of the "surge" he ordered, U.S. President Barack Obama announced the withdrawal of 10,000 troops from Afghanistan this year - and another 23,000 next year. "After this initial reduction, our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace as Afghan security
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Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is dead, but the Afghan War rages on ... in fact, there are more U.S. troops on the ground in Afghanistan right now than ever before. To what end are they fighting (and dying), though? What is America's long-term military objective? Or more to the point - do we even
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American forces in Afghanistan will begin withdrawing next summer after blunting the momentum of the Taliban - although it's unclear whether the gains that U.S. soldiers have achieved are sustainable. Taliban advances have been "arrested in much of the country and reversed in some key areas," according
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U.S. President Barack Obama is about to announce progress in the "War on Terror(ism)" in Afghanistan - ostensible proof that his "surge" strategy is working. But is progress really being achieved? A pair of classified intelligence reports published in The New York Times on Wednesday morning paint
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A week after U.S. President Barack Obama took a victory lap around his newly-appointed Oval Office to trumpet the end of combat operations in Iraq, two American soldiers were gunned down at an Army base north of Baghdad. The attack was not as a result of combat operations, however. The American soldiers
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An unidentified U.S. soldier was killed in a rocket attack mere hours after the "last American combat brigade" left Iraq ... a sign of how the highly-publicized American troop withdrawal doesn't mean an end to the Iraq war (or its casualties). That's because America still has 50,000 troops stationed
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By FITSNews || Improvised explosive devices killed three American soldiers in Afghanistan on Thursday, bringing the U.S. death toll for July to 63 - the bloodiest month in the history of the nine-year war. According to the Associated Press, 60 American soldiers died in June. Since 2001, more than
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