Pentagon rethinking value of major counterinsurgencies
By Nancy A. Youssef | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2010
WASHINGTON — Nearly a decade after the United States began to focus its military training and equipment purchases almost exclusively on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. military strategists are quietly shifting gears, saying that large-scale counterinsurgency efforts cost too much and last too long.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
STATING THE OBVIOUS
Leaving aside the larger issue of morality, the defense establishment seems to be wising up to the folly of the neo-cons' ambitions.
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Have you noted very recent Hersh exposure of Obama complicity in Afghan battlefield executions?
I came across that but I'm a little suspicious of Hersh, so I didn't follow up.
I will now, though.
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