AfPak war Videos

President Obama beset by two bad choices, time for the winning, third choice: The AFPAK solution is a sensor-security fence. After we build it, we turn it over to the Afghans and reduce our military presence to just advisors. The COINsters that want to flood the place with American troops are incompetent egomaniacs who are clueless about terrain control as well as not infuriating the locals which feeds the rebellion. www.defensereview.com The Afghanistan Security Solution (Long-Term): AFPAK ...

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Starts with a news report about Germany's troops involved in the fighting. Continues @4:00 with reporting about a study on post traumatic stress syndrome in UK. @6:54 reports on Hillary's visit and then switches quickly to reporting from Al Jazeera. Does anyone else find it amusing that @7:20 they just happened to find fresh looking passports indicating a tie to 9/11?

Author: TPFThePeoplesForum; Tags: AfPak News from World Focus and Al Jazeera 10 30 09

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This event will celebrate the launch of The AfPak Channel, a special joint project on ForeignPolicy.com by the New America Foundation and Foreign Policy getting inside the war for South Asia. www.newamerica.net

Author: NewAmericaFoundation; Tags: Afghanistan Pakistan Iran Iraq United States Taliban Terrorism Insurgency Insurgents

Opening 5 minutes in a speech including Iraq, AfPak strategy, and what we owe vets.

Author: taylormarsh; Tags: military barack obama veteran of foreign wars diplomacy

More than Iran, what Obama fears is Pakistan's Islamic extremist taking control of the country's nuclear arsenal. The AfPak scenario drawn by the US intelligence is more than alarming. If the current trends are not reversed, the US risk to loose both the war in Afghanistan and control of its Muslim neighbour. Therefore, the White House has shifted the main goal of its military engagement, from crushing the Taliban-Pashtun insurgency, to defeating the Islamist galaxy in Pakistan and ...

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against Taliban fighters in the border area with Afghanistan. US drones support the operation with reconnaissance and bombing flights. The military assumption is that the war in neighboring Afghanistan is unwinnable as long as the Taliban in Pakistan have not been beaten, or at least reigned in. Afghanistan and Pakistan have become one and the same issue – in international political jargon already known by its acronym AfPak. ... pakistan holland netherlands dutch obama worldwide war troops ...

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Professor Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, discusses how increased resources are being devoted to equipping and modernising militaries for wars which are radically different from those envisaged in the cold-war era. This briefing is based on a paper titled Iraq, AfPak, beyond: the global cost of war available from the Open Democracy which is available from: www.opendemocracy.net

Author: bradfordpeacepodcast; Tags: Peace Studies Paul Rogers war conflict cost armament Iraq Afghanistan pakistan insurgency taliban weapons technology

New Delhi by the Booker Prize-winning novelist, political essayist and global justice activist Arundhati Roy. Her books include the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things and her latest essay collection, Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. We speak to Roy about Indias conflict with Maoist rebels, the occupation of Kashmir, ongoing Indian-Pakistani tensions, Obamas war in Af-Pak, and more. ... ahrundhati roy god of small things democracy india maoist obama afpak ...

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