Registan — “Central Asia, all the time” — is the go-to site for information about the increasing important conflicts in Central Asia. The site provides a window into the best, most interesting, or just entertaining material — plus some analysis. Often intemperate or ill-considered — but worth reading. Some recent posts of special interest: “Probably …
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Clausewitz spoke of a trinity of the people, the government, and the military. The rise to dominance of fourth generation warfare has made this conceptually useless, providing only a perspective from which to see how the world has changed.  During the past 60 years a new trinity of modern war has emerged for armies fighting in foreign lands. Chet Richards …
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The Afghanistan War is absurd. Extending our wars into Pakistan is insane. For more moderate expressions of essentially the same view, here are essays from a diverse range of sources. ‘”Legends of the fail“, Manan Ahmed, The National, 7 May 2009 — About the decades-old tradition of experts predicting that Pakistan will collapse any day now. Also …
Joshua Foust writes short and insightful articles about the Afghanistan War at Registan.net— one of the best sources of information about that important but undercovered war (their motto: All Central Asia, All the Time”). For example, here is a comment about Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School …
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A new article by Dr. David Kilcullen: “Political Maneuver in Counterinsurgency“, posted at the Small Wars Council (24 April 2008) — “Road-Building in Afghanistan, Part 1 of a Series on Political Maneuver in Counterinsurgency” Over the past eight years Kilcullen has laid a profound theoretical foundation for COIN on which he has written many articles …
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