CentCom planners study massive move of equipment to Afghanistan
How do you marshal billions of dollars in equipment to escalate one war in Afghanistan while scaling back another in Iraq?
Also tagged MacDill Air Force BaseHow do you marshal billions of dollars in equipment to escalate one war in Afghanistan while scaling back another in Iraq?
Also tagged MacDill Air Force BaseNot, never, willing to acknowledge that the Afghan war is in fact a war, Washington and Brussels from the time of the summit until now have attempted to justify their troop buildups in South Asia as motivated primarily by insuring that the second presidential election in Afghanistan since the joint U.S.-NATO invasion of 2001 proceeded uninterrupted. A ruthless counterinsurgency and bombing campaign was thus portrayed as another war for democracy.
Also tagged india, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, UzbekistanAware of the disastrous effect of th[ese] kind of incidents, President Karzai regularly denounces these ‘mistaken’ airstrikes, which add to the population’s hostility to the ‘occupying forces’ and to his own government, which is already accused of inaction.
Also tagged Barack Obama, collateral damage, Hamid Karzai, ISAF, NATO, Petraeus, UNAM, US Air Force