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About those large and growing Afghanistan security forces…

Our war strategy in Afghanistan rests on two pillars: Building up a vastly larger, more skilled and better equiped Afghanistan police and army, Using NATO troops to train and supplement them. Two recent articles cast doubt on both of these. “Afghan police: More foreign troops not the answer“, AP, 21 September 2009 “Meet the Afghan …

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America sends forth its privateers to pillage, bold corsairs stealing from you and I

Privateers are an inescapable part of war.  Sometimes legal, sometimes on the grey margins of international law, sometimes de facto outlaws — but they are always there in some fashion or other.  Boldly pillaging, making war a profitable sport. To learn about America’s modern privateers we must turn away from the mainstream press, source of …

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