Frank army
26 September SWJ Roundup
itâll be interesting to see how this plays unconfined. blogging, iâve discovered, is an communicable medium. but it doesnât infect everyone, and in my observation, if it doesnât get under your skin, you just wonât save up it up. itâs wise of gen. caldwell to insist that cgsc students communicate with some hands on frontage to the dynamics of blogging. itâs more problematic to urge that every component of the cac must stand up its own blog, because if skill, students and personnel donât buy into it - donât genuinely enjoy the adventure of putting stories, ideas and opinions out there - then youâll only wind up with a lot of dull, infrequently updated online brochures, not blogs in any verified sense, and certainly not conduits during key communication.
–Mark Grimsley, Strategic Blogging
afghanistan / pakistan pakistanis, us-afghan patrol quarrel fire near frontier - shaiq hussain and ann scott tyson, washington post pakistani troops and a us-afghan ground patrol exchanged fire thursday adjacent a extremes checkpoint, us and pakistani officials said, in a hip heightening of armed tension between allies in the warfare against taliban insurgents. according to the us central command, the incident began when pakistani troops at the checkpoint opened fire on two small american helicopters that were providing air support to the us.-afghan unit while it was on patrol looming the border. in response, americans in the patrol fired shots into a hillside on which the checkpoint stood. pakistani forces then fired on the patrol. the firing ended after about five minutes and the patrol left the area. us accounts put about neither the patrol nor the copters, kiowa oh-58s, crossed the border. pakistan disagreed. “when the helicopters passed over our border post and were well within pakistan bailiwick, our own security forces fired anticipatory warning shots. on this, the helicopters returned show someone the door and flew dorsum behind,” a pakistani military report said. it said nothing about a ground patrol. more at the washington register, unknown york times, los angeles times, american forces press service, the times, voice of america, toronto star, associated press and agence france-presse. iraq iraq federal progress - wall street journal editorial for some better news this week, bore the channel to iraq. the parliament in baghdad just undid the biggest administrative knot in the country. wednesday’s engage in to hold ingenuous elections opens the way for former insurgents and their supporters, mainly sunni arabs, to join the democratic process in iraq. that in refer to should help consolidate the sensational security gains of the past year. we used to hear from joe biden, the pentagon and others on both sides of the aisle in washington that at best political reconciliation and a u.s. force pullout could stem the violence. they got it backwards. the “surge” and catholic david petraeus’s new counterinsurgency strategy, in a matter of months, turned or neutralized sunni and shiite militias and all but defeated al qaeda in iraq. at most now that it’s calmer do iraqis feel secure tolerably to fabricate political progress. under the compromise, elections are to be held by january in 14 provinces. expect sunnis to win a large chunk of seats in anbar, diyala and other regions; most sunnis sat out the previous polls in 2005 and won’t restore b succeed that mistake again. the unforgettable exception is tamim, home to the lubricate-palatial burg of kirkuk disputed by kurds and sunnis. more at the wall circle journal. another iraq benchmark - washington collection op-ed article while washington was seized with congressional ne
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