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… on the memo. What was driving policy was concern about Afghanistan, that cross border raids from Pakistan by Afghan … was “the potential threat posed to Pakistan from events in Afghanistan and the consequent instability it could cause in …
… policy was concerned; responding to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan had the highest priority for the Carter White …
… document for the first phase of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, approved by the National Security Council on … effort worldwide." The follow-on peacekeeping force in Afghanistan “could be UN-based or an ad hoc collection of …
… 2002 Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was worried again about Afghanistan, writing a snowflake to top aides about setting … obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Afghanistan 20/20: The 20-Year War in 20 Documents Aug 19, …
… President George W. Bush announced new objectives for Afghanistan in a speech at the Virginia Military Institute, … Rumsfeld’s concerns about no clear exit strategy from Afghanistan crystallized in a short snowflake addressed to …
… any problem came to be the core U.S. modus operandi around Afghanistan. Rumsfeld asks, “If we are going to get the Paks … and its intelligence service were playing both sides in Afghanistan, and the net for Pakistani leader Musharraf was …
… of its humor and its candor about actual conditions in Afghanistan, and the author’s previous position as a deputy … such a thing as an Afghan. It is not, and there is not.” “Afghanistan is the place where the world saw fit to stash all …
… inside the U.S. government about nation-building in Afghanistan, Rumsfeld insisted that more troops were not the … Bush on August 20, 2002, arguing, “the critical problem in Afghanistan is not really a security problem. Rather, the …
… is General McNeill?’ I said he is the general in charge of Afghanistan. He said, ‘Well, I don’t need to meet with him.” … obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Afghanistan 20/20: The 20-Year War in 20 Documents Aug 19, …
… enemy. “I have no visibility into who the bad guys are in Afghanistan or Iraq. I read all the intel from the community … obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Afghanistan 20/20: The 20-Year War in 20 Documents Aug 19, …
… U.S. nation building project, the Combined Forces Command Afghanistan sent Washington one of its regular “Security … obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Afghanistan 20/20: The 20-Year War in 20 Documents Aug 19, …
… connection there as the son of a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan. He quickly sized up corruption as “a major … narcotics – reporting “opium could strangle the legitimate Afghanistan state in its cradle;” yet, rural Afghans relied …
… Freedom of Information Act request to the State Department Afghanistan 20/20: The 20-Year War in 20 Documents Aug 19, …
… with some prescient warnings. He reports that violence in Afghanistan is on the rise but claims “violence does not … the importance of “our work with the GOA [Government of Afghanistan] to extend and deepen its reach nationwide.” “The …
… retired four-star general, Barry McCaffrey, to visit Afghanistan and Pakistan and make an assessment of the war … are “collectively terrified that we will tip-toe out of Afghanistan in the coming few years” and do not believe the …
… warns Washington in this cable that "we are not winning in Afghanistan; although we are far from losing" (that would … Freedom of Information Act request to the State Department Afghanistan 20/20: The 20-Year War in 20 Documents Aug 19, …
… This is the key document behind the Obama “surge” in Afghanistan that produced the highest U.S. troop levels in … Robert Gates, had abruptly fired the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David McKiernan, after only 11 months, and …
… During the Obama debate over whether to surge or not in Afghanistan, some of the strongest criticism of the … from the former general who had served multiple tours in Afghanistan (Rumsfeld’s first “security coordinator”) and now …
… soldiers, and says “overall violence and instability in Afghanistan intensified.” Neither the Afghan army nor … surge produced all-time high levels of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Source The New York Times, Eric Schmitt, “U.S. …
… interviews undertaken by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and obtained by Craig Whitlock of … we went in to get al-Qaeda, and to get al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan, and even without killing Bin Laden we did that. …
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