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Armored Steam Rollers Lead The Way
FILE0068 on Flickr Uploaded on December 16, 2007 by ChuckHolton Marines Pounce Behind Taliban Lines With Ospreys and Armored Steamrollers… more →
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Armored Steam Rollers Lead The Way
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Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 1 day ago: FILE0068 on Flickr Uploaded on December 16, 2007 by ChuckHolton Marines Pounce Behind Taliban Lines … more →
Putting More Afghan Feet Into Boots On The Ground
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Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 2 weeks ago: The Afghan National Army still isn’t ready for prime time. The Afghan National Police are m … more →
Message: Local forms of security emerge once an area is cleared and villagers have something to protect.
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Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 2 weeks ago: Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Enquirer, Bypassing the Karzai Problem 5. Local security helps keep the pe … more →
The Forgotten War: A serial thriller Chapters 6 - 17
John D. Antesberger III wrote 3 weeks ago: 6 John Campbell had just listened to one of the best lectures he had ever heard in his life. Grant … more →
“There hasn’t been a single recruit for more than a month and a half,”
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Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 1 month ago: Looks like the Guardians of Wardak aren’t meeting expectations. Allied exit strategy at risk a … more →
Non-victory makes perfect sense in the political context of someone whose idea of a solution is a ‘deal’
Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 2 months ago: Read The real thing @ TBC. America won’t be run out of Afghanistan. It will lose interest and … more →
Chicom Police Mentoring Team in RC North?
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Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 2 months ago: Strategy Page list this under Peacekeeping: September 7, 2009: China has quietly been training Afgha … more →
"If God didn't want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep"
Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 3 months ago: Everything I know about mobilizing Village Self Defense Militias I learned from Yul Brynner and Anth … more →
War Stories…A session reflection from the SPJ National Convention
uispj wrote 3 months ago: By Kelly Trettin “ There’s no inherent right to embed,” said Colonel David Lapan, Director of the De … more →
Wardak Jezailchis Didn't Cover Themselves With Glory
Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 3 months ago: Tribal guards add little Nematullah Habib, representative for the Independent Elections Commission ( … more →
Too soon to tell how well the APPF is working in Wardak province
Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 4 months ago: Balint Szlanko is embedded with 10th Mountain in Wardak and Logar. Excerpt: The main problem at this … more →
Out-sourcing Our Air Lift to Crazy Ivan
Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 5 months ago: In fifteen months at KAF I never saw a C-5 Galaxy, but I did see Antonov AN-124’s, beaucoup Il … more →
Commander Tor Gol, Nirkh Jezailchis
Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 6 months ago: Nirkh, or Nerkh, is a district of Wardak Province in Afghanistan. Taliban, Haqqani Network, HIG, an … more →
Will Johnny Utah Ever See His Surefire Again?
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Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 6 months ago: The latest episode in the Wardak Jezailchi saga. New Afghan Force Joins Fight Against Taliban on All … more →
Convoy Day
Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 6 months ago: Road runners. The KAU gets the jingle trucks from Kandahar to TK. … more →
Guardians of Wardak
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Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 6 months ago: A slow road to self-reliance Gleaned these nuggets for your consideration: The goal is to field 1,20 … more →
KAU
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Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 7 months ago: Colonel Khan’s private warlord army or Interior Ministry Highway Patrol? There seems to be som … more →
Taliban 2, Nirkh Jezailchis 0
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Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 7 months ago: But the game is young. If the AP is to be believed, the new Afghan Public Protection Force has suffe … more →
No Zayawalat Jezailchis
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Cannoneer No. 4 wrote 7 months ago: Ex-Taliban headmen in one of the main villages of Jalrez District, Wardak Province, fighting the Afg … more →
