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Three years ago, the commander's sentiment seemed overly bleak. For soldiers hunkered down on an isolated base that regularly took fire, giving candy to children seemed like a pretty innocent way to lift spirits. These days, however, his warning seems prescient. Just last week, soldiers inspecting a project outside...
Rumors that U.S. soldiers had desecrated the Koran sparked a violent protest in the southern province of Helmand last week. Rioters turned their fury on the local offices of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), whose intelligence officers then fired on the crowd, killing eight. The Americans were blamed - just...
The writers follow their incisive criticisms with far-reaching prescriptions. "Understandably galled by IED strikes that are killing soldiers," write Army Major General Michael Flynn, Marine Captain Matt Pottinger and Paul Batchelor of the Defense Intelligence Agency, "these intelligence shops react by devoting most of their resources to finding the...
An armed Maoist insurgency has filled the vacuum, presenting themselves as the true voice of the dispossessed. They have infiltrated villages in pockets throughout the state, and have all but taken control of the village of Lalgarh, less than 125 miles (200 km) away from the state capital of Kolkata...
Brahma Chellaney, a security analyst based in New Delhi, said the ferocity of the attack - with militants using machine guns, grenades, suicide bombs and remote-controlled mines - was consistent with a "pattern of international terrorism" that has emerged in the region in recent years. In November 2008, gunmen believed to...