Afghanistan

How the US lost its longest war in Afghanistan..... worth considering that it was America's own choiceto jump into the Afghan sand-grave. · The world media's FALSE cry: Pakistan, nominally a US partner in the war, had also been the Afghan Taliban's main patron. Now find the answer below - see the Washington Post of 27th September 2021 with a big caption:PM Imran Khan: Don't blame Pakistan........; adding that: · "America made no mention of Pakistan's sacrifices as a US ally in the War on Terror for more than two decades. Instead, we were blamed for America's loss. · Earlier, the US had once asked Pakistan to train certain Afghani groups, called Mujahedeen, jointly by the CIA and our ISI, to defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s. · Back then, President Ronald Reagan even entertained the mujahedeen at the White House. · Once the Soviets were defeated, the US abandoned Afghanistan leaving behind over 4 million Afghan refugees in Pakistan and a bloody civil war in Afghanistan. From this security vacuum emerged the Taliban. · Fast forward to 9/11, when the US needed us again - Gen Musharraf offered Washington logistics and air bases; also allowed a CIA footprint in Pakistan. · For the Afghan people, the United States was a 'foreign occupier' just like the Soviets, deserving of the same treatment. · Since 2001, US was repeatedly warned that the Afghan war was un-winnable. Given their history, Afghans would never accept a protracted foreign military presence. · Pakistan was now America's collaborator, but got attacked by over 450 US drone strikes on our territory, making us the only country in history to be so bombed by an ally.

Liberty VS TyrannyBy Col. Andrew P. O'Meara, Jr.Colonel Andy O'Meara is a combat veteran awarded a Silver Star and a Purple Heart in the Vietnam war. His latest and well researched book, Liberty VS Tyranny deals with the enduring struggle between our military leaders, sworn to defend our Constitution and the political leaders in charge. Col. O'Meara looks at the extraordinary role Yale University played in mobilizing opposition to the Vietnam war and the roles our academia has played in creating a genre of socialist elites buried within American society today. The failure of the DOJ and FBI to prosecute flagrant cases of treason and how they have now become weaponized by former President Obama is one of the most serious events to damage our justice system and the rule of law. This miscarriage of justice has convinced the leaders of the Left that they are above the law; a travesty which continues to this day. You will read examples of catastrophic failures caused by America's various governments over these past six decades since the Kennedy assassination and the damage they have done to our international role in keeping socialism and communism at bay in the free world. He documents the damage our political leaders have done with ever-changing domestic and erratic foreign policies. He asks the question, "Where do we go from here?" Do we keep on repeating these same mistakes created by an ever-changing direction of government, or do we create a sustained domestic and foreign policy that will hold communism and socialism at bay in the free world? Liberty Vs Tyranny, will leave you asking these questions while it also offers a possible solution!

Im ersten Teil ihres Buches erzählt Sahar Ohlig über die verborgenen, politischen Spiele der Supermächte in Afghanistan. Im zweiten Teil geht es um Ihre Botschaft an die Menschen der beteiligten Staaten und um das Thema Ausländer in Deutschland. Im Anhang befinden sich noch weitere Gedichte und kurze Texte von ihr.

Die Innere Führung ist als umfassende Organisationsphilosophie von wesentlicher Bedeutung für die Einsatzbereitschaft der Bundeswehr.In diesem Buch werden konkrete Empfehlungen für ihre Wiederentdeckung und Weiterentwicklung erarbeitet. Dabei bildet ein Vergleich von Dokumenten und Vorschriften seit den 1950er Jahren die Grundlage für die darauf aufbauenden Grundannahmen und Empfehlungen für eine künftige Revision.Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf dem Kernbestand der Inneren Führung, ihrer im Laufe der Jahrzehnte verschobenen Zielsetzung, der grundlegenden Bedeutung eines Kriegsbildes sowie der Anpassungsnotwendigkeiten ihrer Gestaltungsfelder. Im Kern geht es darum, die Logik der Inneren Führung verständlich herauszuarbeiten, um sie fit für das 21. Jahrhundert zu machen.

Im ersten Teil ihres Buches erzählt Sahar Ohlig über die verborgenen, politischen Spiele der Supermächte in Afghanistan. Im zweiten Teil geht es um Ihre Botschaft an die Menschen der beteiligten Staaten und um das Thema Ausländer in Deutschland. Im Anhang befinden sich noch weitere Gedichte und kurze Texte von ihr.

This book is a collection of various articles written by eminent researchers on the aspects of finding a solution to the peace prospects in troubled Afghanistan.

Dopo averci fatto ascoltare in "Preghiera per Cernobyl'" le voci delle vittime del disastro nucleare, Svetlana Aleksievic fa parlare qui i protagonisti di un'altra grande tragedia della storia sovietica: la guerra in Afghanistan tra il 1979 e il 1989. Un milione di ragazzi e ragazze partiti per sostenere la "grande causa internazionalista e patriottica"; almeno quattordicimila di loro rimpatriati chiusi nelle casse di zinco e sepolti di nascosto, nottetempo; cinquantamila feriti; mezzo milione di vittime afgane; torture, droga, atrocità, malattie, vergogna, disperazione... Gli 'afgancy', i ragazzi che la guerra ha trasformato in assassini, raccontano ciò che si è voluto nascondere. Accanto a loro, un'altra guerra. Quella delle infermiere e delle impiegate che partirono per avventura e patriottismo. E soprattutto le madri. Dolenti, impietose, stanche, coraggiose. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

The Dust of Kandahar provides a personal account of one diplomat's year of service in America's longest war. Ambassador Addleton movingly describes the everyday human drama of the American soldiers, local tribal dignitaries, government officials, and religious leaders he interacted and worked with in southern Afghanistan. Addleton's writing is at its most vivid in his firsthand account of the April 2013 suicide bombing outside a Zabul school that killed his translator, a fellow Foreign Service officer, and three American soldiers. The memory of this tragedy lingers over Addleton's journal entries, his prose offering poignant glimpses into the interior life of a U.S. diplomat stationed in harm's way.

This book engages with the Chinese mediation of wars and conflicts in the global environment.Proposing a new cascading media and conflict model, it applies this to the studyof war correspondents from six levels: media-policy relations, journalistic objectivity, roleperceptions, news framing and peace/war journalism, news practices, and audience.Based on interviews with 23 Chinese journalists and case study analysis of the Libyan War,Syrian War, Afghanistan War and Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the book demonstrates thata new breed of Chinese war correspondents has emerged today. They undergo a complexand nuanced mediated communication process. Neither traditionally Chinese in theirapproach nor western in their perceptions, they are uniquely pragmatic in negotiating theirroles in a complex web of internal and external actors and factors. The core ideology seemsto be anti-West in defiance of the US hegemony and the bias of global media as well asneutral-Muslims.Exploring the role perceptions, values, norms and practices of contemporary Chinese warcorrespondents who go outside China to bring the ¿distant culture¿ back home, this text is keyreading for scholars and students in international journalism, international communication,war and peace studies, international relations and Chinese studies.

Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror offers an in-depth analysis of US/UK military strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001 to the present day. It explores the development of contemporary military strategy in the West in the modern age before interrogating its application in the Global War on Terror. The book provides detailed insights into the formulation of military plans by political and military elites in the United States and United Kingdom for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Alastair Finlan highlights the challenges posed by each of these unique theatres of operation, the nature of the diverse enemies faced by coalition forces, and the shortcomings in strategic thinking about these campaigns. This fresh perspective on strategy in the West and how it has been applied in recent military campaigns facilitates a deep understanding of how wars have been and will be fought. Including key terms, concepts and discussion questions for each chapter, Contemporary Military Strategy and the Global War on Terror is a crucial text in strategic studies, and required reading for anyone interested in the new realities of transnational terrorism and twenty-first century warfare.

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Der Autor beschreibt unter anderem die ersten Schritte beim Aufbau der Polizei, schildert Erlebnisse und Leben im Nordosten Afghanistans, Begegnungen mit Einheimischen und Internationalen, erinnert an Anschläge, Tote, Verletzte und hinterfragt anhand konkreter Ereignisse und eigener Beobachtungen die Sicherheitslage in den Jahren 2004/2005. Abschließend beschäftigt sich der Autor vergleichend mit seinen Erfahrungen aus anderen Auslandsverwendungen.

Im Dezember 2001 wurde auf dem deutschen Petersberg ein ehrgeiziges Ziel gefasst: Afghanistan sollte befriedet, neu aufgebaut und demokratisiert werden. Doch zwischen dem Sturz der Taliban Ende 2001 und dem angekündigten Strategiewechsel des amerikanischen Präsidenten Obama im Dezember 2009 liegen rund acht erfolglose Jahre Krieg und Wiederaufbau am Hindukusch. Martina Meienberg analysiert, warum der politische Wiederaufbau in Afghanistan bisher in vielen Bereichen gescheitert ist. Die Untersuchung des Fallbeispiels zeigt, wie sich die Interventionen auf das Verhalten verschiedener Akteure, u.a. der Regierung Karzai, der Taliban und der Bundeswehrmitglieder, ausgewirkt haben.

As a former star reporter for NPR, Sarah Chayes developed a devoted listenership for her on-site reports on conflicts around the world. In The Punishment of Virtue, she reveals the misguided U.S. policy in Afghanistan in the wake of the defeat of the Taliban, which has severely undermined the effort to build democracy and allowed corrupt tribal warlords back into positions of power and the Taliban to re-infiltrate the country. This is an eyeopening chronicle that highlights the often infuriating realities of a vital front in the war on terror, exposing deeper, fundamental problems with current U.S. strategy.