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Despite 2009 “Surge” Taliban Remains Force to be Reckoned with in Afghanistan

From On November 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Foreign Policy’s Stephen Walt highlights a chart by Belfer Center fellow Matt Waldman showing that as the US-led 2009 “Surge” in Afghanistan proceeded, US casualties increased. The pace in 2012 is also roughly similar to the toll from the previous two years:

Equally important, the final column (based on figures [...]

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Broadwell Defended Petraeus’ Village Destruction Policy

From On November 15, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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Paula Broadwell, whose affair with Gen. David Petraeus brought his career to a sudden end last week, had sought to help defend his decision in 2010 to allow village destruction in Afghanistan that not only violated his own previous guidance but the international laws of war.

But her efforts had [...]

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Sanctions Continue to hit Average Iranians

From On November 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The US-led sanctions regime isn’t directly targeting Iran’s healthcare system but reports continue to suggest that critically-ill Iranians are being affected. The Al Jazeera English clip above squares with Najmeh Bozorgmehr’s Financial Times article from September about how  sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank are preventing critically-ill patients from getting crucial medical aid:

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WaPo on the “disposition matrix,” the CIA’s next-generation kill list

From On October 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

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The Washington Post‘s Greg Miller has begun a three-part series on the future of the Obama Administration’s counterterrorism drone strike program, which will include a “next-generation targeting list” (aka “kill list”) in the form of a “dipposition matrix”.

Though the White House, CIA, JSOC and ODNI declined comment requests, the article cites [...]

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