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How are you going to get that message down to the guys in the fight, who are used to depending on air support? Well, one, we have an extraordinarily intelligent and mature force now. We have had for a number of years. The way I would frame it to them...
Aware of the danger, McChrystal has made the protection of civilians the central tenet of his new approach to fighting the Taliban, even going so far as to limit the use of aerial bombardment to the most extreme circumstances - a turnabout for U.S. ground forces that have grown dependent on...
Use of Torture I welcome the "soft approach" to interrogation explored in your article "How to Make Terrorists Talk" [June 8]. Without empathy there can never be peace, and reporting has a role to play. "Hardened terrorist," "insurgent," "captive," "subject": it's a revealing exercise to read the piece replacing...
2 | Afghanistan Bringing Back Body Counts Reversing decades of military policy, the U.S. Army has begun regularly releasing statistics on the number of enemy combatants killed in Afghanistan--a figure nearing 2,000 over the past 14 months. The practice of disclosing enemy death tolls was abandoned after the Vietnam...
When Pakistani troops began to pummel Taliban positions in the Swat Valley last month, there were other military advances against insurgent outposts - barely noticed by the global media - taking place in valleys not so far away. In late May, Uzbek soldiers and tanks patrolled parts of the troubled Ferghana Valley...