Afghanistan journal: selections from Registan.net
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2010
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Physical Description: | 246 S. Ill., Kt. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781935982029 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Foreword, by
Steve UVine 11
Preface
15
Part I
23
1.
Dispatches From FOBistan
25
A Week of
CRC 26
The Latrine Graffiti of Kuwait
28
Escape from Kyrgystan
30
The Kyrgyz
Magiciennes
of
Bagram 31
Let s Think About Kabul
33
Fixing Afghanistan Starts With Fixing Ourselves
36
This Place Is a Prison, and These People Aren t Your Friends
37
The Army s Woeful IT Policies Spoil the War Effort
39
2.
Traveling through Kapisa and Khost
43
Detour through Parwan
43
Maladies of Interpreters
45
The Unreality of Kabul
47
Kapisa, in Pictures
49
The Importance of Political Affiliation
50
The Importance of Local Solutions to Local Problems
55
Sad
59
The Persuadable Taliban
59
Letting the Message Drive the Operation
61
The Garrison Problem
64
Part II
67
3.
Kunar and Nuristan
69
What Role Do Civilian Casualties Play?
70
Did the U.S. Have Advance Warning of the Attack
on the Wanat Firebase?
73
The Kunar-Chitral Region Remains a Dark Mystery
75
Intercepting Wood in Kunar
76
Withdrawal Is Not (Necessarily) Surrender
79
8
I Afghanistan Journal
HIGs Are Pigs
81
Nuristan Violence Part of a Years-Long Campaign?
84
Maybe, Finally, Some Accountability?
85
4.
Helmand
89
Selection Bias
89
Conceding Territory, And What It Means
90
Garmsir, Again
93
How Do You Do the Build Part of COIN
in a Crashed Economy?
95
Garmsir, Again (Again)
96
Mythbusting Marjeh
97
Vetting
Haji
Zahir
99
How to Move Forward in Marjeh
100
5.
Kapisa
103
Kapisa Province: A COIN Case Study in Afghanistan
104
In Alisay Valley, the Fight Continues 111
Tracking Progress in the Alisay Valley
113
ISAF
Goes Social
113
Kapisa Teeters
115
Possibly, Kapisa Insurgent Figure Detained
117
6.
The Region
121
Delayed by Tragedy, a New Refugee Flight
121
Joining Defensive Alliances
123
Central Asia s Loming Water Wars
125
Looking at Tajikistan
126
Are Terror Groups Faked? Does the
IJU
Even Exist?
127
Possible Proof of Iranian Support for the Taliban
130
Spilling Over in Central Asia?
132
Part III
7.
Strategy
139
Security Solutions for Afghanistan
139
Macro-indicators of Afghanistan:
Do They Mean Anything? Should We Care?
145
Maintaining Perspective
146
Quote of the Weekend
149
Attacks in Khost, Police Respond Again
149
Oh, the Shinwari
151
Means-testing the Drone War
153
Romancing Hekmatyar (and Other Related Monsters)
155
Contents
I
9
8.
Policy
159
The Human Failure of the Afghanistan Mission
160
The Issue of Aid
162
The Problem with PRTs
165
A Problem More Serious Than Bias
168
New Data for the Shindand Bombing
169
Handling Civilian Casualties and Their Aftermath
Is a Critical Failure
171
Gameplanning a Solution In Media Res
172
Local v. National Control
174
From Whole of Government to Whole of Place
177
The Afghanistan Study Group Report:
An Exercise in Determined Ignorance
179
9.
Counternarcotics
189
Can Afghanistan Be Saved? Not with the
Current Opium Policy
189
How Opium Is Crashing Afghanistan s Economy
191
Peas in a Pod
193
How Do You Stop the Poppies?
193
Thinking about Alternative Livelihoods
195
Poppy-Free, At Long Long Last
198
Pragmatism, Not Idealism
199
The Nangarhar Swing
200
Opium Is an Economic Problem, Not a Cause
202
Can We Please Stop Trying to Turn Afghanistan
into Columbia?
204
The Hidden Finances of Insurgency
205
What is Going on in the Poppy Fields of Afghanistan?
207
Some Tricky Numbers
208
10.
Press and Pundits
211
Sloppy Logic in the Blogosphere
212
Dateline Afghanistan: Covering the Forgotten War
214
Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords,
and the Propaganda of Silence,
by
Sonali Kolhatkar
and James Ingalls
215
Why We Fight
219
Digging Deeper into the Pashtun Tribal Areas
221
The Inexplicable Longevity of
Selig S.
Harrison
224
Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the
Taliban and
AI Qaeda,
by
Gretchen
Peters
228
ABC News s Obsession with Afghan Nightlife
232
10
I Afghanistan Journal
Glossary and Abbreviations
235
List of Major Ethnic Groups
245
Acknowledgments
247
Maps:
Map
1:
Afghanistan: The Region
27
Map
2:
Afghanistan: Northeastern Border
68
Map
3:
Afghanistan: The Provinces
71
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