Defining Success in Afghanistan: Report
11 January 2011
[pdf], American Enterprise Institute // Institute for the Study of War via the Human Security Gateway, 7 January 2011
EXCERPT: "Success in Afghanistan is the establishment of a political order, security situation, and indigenous security force that is stable, viable, enduring, and able?with greatly reduced international support?to prevent Afghanistan from being a safe haven for international terrorists....
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How Afghans View Coalition Military Operations in Kandahar
11 January 2011
How Afghans View Coalition Military Operations in Kandahar, The Lowy Institute for International Policy, December 2010
EXCERPT: "Over the last nine months the US-led coalition in Afghanistan has been implementing a new and more comprehensive counter-Taliban strategy. This has seen the dispatch of additional troops to Afghanistan, the evolution of new tactics on the ground and the launching of major new operations in southern Afghanistan....
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Suicide Bombing Kills Three in Strategic Southern District
11 January 2011
Suicide Bombing Kills 3 in Afghanistan, Los Angeles, 11 January 2011
EXCERPT: "Insurgents Monday staged the second suicide bombing in four days in a strategic border district in southern Afghanistan, signaling determination to open a new front in the battle with coalition forces in volatile Kandahar province. Two policemen and a civilian were killed in the attack, for which the Taliban claimed responsibility. [...] The suicide attack...
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Afghan Police Standards "Rising": UK Officials
11 January 2011
, The Press Association, 11 January 2011
EXCERPT: "British-trained Afghan police have arrested suspected Taliban bomb-makers, seized a cache of Soviet-era weapons and blitzed opium-growers in a series of recent raids. Senior UK officials pointed to the growing independence of the Afghan National Police (ANP) in planning and executing operations as evidence they are shaking off their reputation...
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US Inspector for Afghan Reconstruction Resigns
11 January 2011
, The Washington Post, 10 January 2011
EXCERPT: "The head of the office charged with investigating corruption in the multibillion-dollar effort to rebuild Afghanistan has resigned, the White House said Monday, following congressional demands that the White House replace him. Arnold Fields, a retired Marine major general, was named special inspector...
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