Tag: Afghanistan

Another 1,000 U.S. troops will not "fix" Afghanistan. Neither will another 5,000, or another 10,000 or 20,000. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Justin T. Updegraff, Operation Resolute Support via AP)

US Afghan intervention is a failure of concept, not execution

Bonnie Kristian · February 2, 2018 5:01 am

U.S. Marines stand guard during the change of command ceremony at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Beltway Confidential

Borrowing from Carl von Clausewitz, Trump’s State of the Union rightly blitzed Obama’s Afghanistan strategy

Tom Rogan · January 31, 2018 3:51 am

The Jan. 30 report notes that for the first time since 2009, Resolute Support classified the exact, assigned and authorized force strength and attrition data for the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

National Security

US military says it didn’t mean to hide data showing Taliban’s strength, cites ‘human error’

Jamie McIntyre · January 30, 2018 4:07 pm

White House Watch: The Three Keys to Trump’s SOTU

Michael Warren · January 30, 2018 11:10 am

It was revealed on Sunday that the fitness app Strava had inadvertently released the location of some covert American military bases where military personnel who used the app had exercised. (screenshot)

National Security

Fitness app announces review of privacy settings after location data reveals secret military base locations

Diana Stancy Correll · January 30, 2018 5:56 am

In the video, Gregory Salcido can be heard repeatedly warning students not to join the military, which he says has been unable to win wars in Iraq or Afghanistan because of the poor quality of its troops. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Pentagon responds to California teacher who was recorded calling US troops ‘a bunch of dumb s–ts’

Travis J. Tritten · January 29, 2018 8:22 pm

There is some concern that U.S. troops may have shared data while exercising at U.S. bases in war zones, in places like Iraq, Syria, or Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

National Security

Pentagon reviewing policy on fitness trackers after GPS data published

Jamie McIntyre · January 29, 2018 6:35 pm

"They're killing people left and right. Innocent people are being killed left and right, bombing in the middle of children, in the middle of families, bombing, killing all over Afghanistan," President Trump said before a meeting with United Nations Security Council ambassadors at the White House. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Trump: ‘We don’t want to talk with the Taliban’

Sarah Bedford · January 29, 2018 6:03 pm

FILE - In this Dec. 21, 2017, file photo Defense Secretary Jim Mattis talks to troops at an outdoor movie theater at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Mattis is a storyteller, and nowhere do the tales flow more easily than when he's among the breed he identifies with most closely _ the men and women of the military (AP Photo/Robert Burns, File)

National Security

Fitness app’s location data unveils secret American military bases around the world

Kyle Feldscher · January 28, 2018 11:50 pm

Rather than using "fire and fury" rhetoric, a senior administration official says that President Trump will use a more measured tone when discussing North Korea in his State of the Union address. Such comments will resemble a speech he gave in South Korea in November that focused on unity against North Korea's "cruel regime." (Jung Yeon-Je/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump won’t use ‘fire and fury’ tone on North Korea in State of the Union

Travis J. Tritten · January 27, 2018 7:00 pm

Security forces inspect at the site of a deadly suicide attack in the center of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday. A suicide car bomber killed at least 40 people and wounded about 140 more in an attack claimed by the Taliban on Saturday in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, authorities said. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Officials: 95 killed, 158 wounded in Afghan car bombing

Associated Press · January 27, 2018 4:10 pm

The department tracked a total of 75 incidents of gross human rights violations between 2010 and 2016, the investigation found. Of those, seven involved child sexual assault. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

National Security

Senate targets loophole Defense Department used to support Afghan forces accused of human rights abuses

Travis J. Tritten · January 23, 2018 10:41 pm