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[Outside The Beltway | OTB] Iraq War Casualty Predictions: With the exception of a very few people who deeply understood the social/political/historical situation in Iraq and the surrounding countries in the region(who were to a person dismissed as liberal/peace nick/weenies who just didn't get the grand neo-con vision because of their inability to understand the simplicity of the situation), no one bothered to call in a few anthropologists to find out what the predicable outcome of an American invasion would be.

Mudville Gazette: Andrew Bostom - pal of Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller - bizarrely accuses me of being an uninformed dogmatist for publishing a "roseate view" of Iraq, even though my article in question was dedicated to quoting Iraqis and American soldiers with a gloomy view of Iraq. ..The Future of Iraq Part IV will be published here shortly.

[NewsDaily: Top Headlines] NewsDaily: Iraq lessons learned, U.S. Marines turn to Afghanistan: DESERT OF DEATH, Afghanistan, June 28, 2009 (Reuters) ”” After five years coping with the most dangerous province in Iraq, the U.S. Marines have been given their next assignment: the most dangerous province in Afghanistan. The Marines fought two massive battles for the Anbar city of Fallujah in 2004, the biggest engagements of the Iraq war.

[GlobalResearch.ca] Military Escalation: From Afghanistan To the Caspian Sea and ...: Almost immediately after the carnage on the Highway of Death and in the Amiriyah shelter ended the US and its NATO allies shifted their application of military force to the Balkans (Croatia, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Macedonia) and since then have waged, directed and assisted armed conflicts - individually, multilaterally, collectively and by proxy - in the Middle East (Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza), the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Djibouti-Eritrea), Africa west of the Horn (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Congo, Chad, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Mali), the Caucasus (Georgia-South Ossetia/Russia), South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan) and as far away as the Philippines in Southeast Asia and Colombia in South America.

[The Market Oracle] Military Escalation From Afghanistan To the Caspian Sea and ...: Almost immediately after the carnage on the Highway of Death and in the Amiriyah shelter ended the US and its NATO allies shifted their application of military force to the Balkans (Croatia, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Macedonia) and since then have waged, directed and assisted armed conflicts - individually, multilaterally, collectively and by proxy - in the Middle East (Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza), the Horn of Africa (Somalia, Djibouti-Eritrea), Africa west of the Horn (Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Congo, Chad, the Central African Republic, Sudan, Mali), the Caucasus (Georgia-South Ossetia/Russia), South Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan) and as far away as the Philippines in Southeast Asia and Colombia in South America.

[The Intelligence Daily] War for Ever More?: Since the video game-esque presentation of the first Iraq War (Desert Storm), the U.S. public has been sold a bill of goods about "smart" weapons and "precision" weaponry. What is kept as distant as possible is that these weapons are neither "smart" or "precise," and that civilians are constantly on the receiving end of them.

[Marine Corps Community for USMC Marine Veterans] Iraq lessons learned, US Marines turn to Afghanistan - Marine ...: Southern Helmand, like Anbar, is virtually entirely made up of a vast, empty desert, cut through by a single river, surrounded by a band of densely populated agricultural land. Insurgents infiltrate across a long and poorly guarded border.

[Uncommon Thought Journal] Uncommon Thought Journal: War for Ever More?: The war in Afghanistan is heating up and has extended to Pakistan. AfriCom is a secretly booming endeavour;

[Creative-i] Creative-i / West's Afghan War And Drive Into Caspian Sea Basin By ...: Simmons has recruited an initial force of 500 Georgia troops, veterans of the Iraqi occupation and last year’s war in South Ossetia, trained by US Green Berets and the Marine Corps, for NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan and has dragooned additional Azerbaijani soldiers for the same purpose as well. Both the above South Caucasus nations will play an enhanced role in the transit of Western troops and materiel to the war zone, too.

[Khubaibahmed's Blog] Come September by Arundhati Roy (Text and Speach) « Khubaib Ahmed: Close to one year after the War against Terror was officially flagged off in the ruins of Afghanistan, in country after country freedoms are being curtailed in the name of protecting freedom, civil liberties are being suspended in the name of protecting democracy. All kinds of dissent are being defined as “terrorism”.

[Blog about Argentina] Blog about Argentina » Argentina Travel Safety: The US-backed electoral and street opposition in Iran was designed to push to the limits a destabilization campaign, with the intention of rolling back Iranian influence in the Middle East, undermining Tehran’s opposition to US military intervention in the Gulf, its occupation of Iraq and , above all, Iran’s challenge to Israel’s projection of military power in the region. Anti-Iran propaganda and policy making has been heavily influenced for years on a daily basis by the entire pro-Israel power configuration in the US.

[Baghdad] McClatchy blog: Baghdad Observer: This should be a primer at West Point, Annapolis, the Command and General Staff College and for any civilians who want to understand who we're fighting and why in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places.  Kilcullen acts more as an anthropologist than a soldier (though he was a 20-year officer Down Under) in forensically explaning 21st century warfare. 

[Therearenosunglasses's Weblog] War for Ever More? « Therearenosunglasses's Weblog: The war in Afghanistan is heating up and has extended to Pakistan. AfriCom is a secretly booming endeavour;

[DoD Buzz] Murtha Questions Army Camo » Blog Archive » DoD Buzz: for the Army back in the 70’s at Belvoir R&D Center, BRDC, and did design and analysis on vehicle colors and patterns, uniform colors and patterns, camo screens and dozens of other camo applications and technologies. My team compared all the multi-spectral technologies used by the world armies and came to the conclusion that it is not possible to even visually camouflage for all regions for all seasons and for it to be affordable.

[Small Wars Council] 17 July SWJ Roundup - Small Wars Council: A State Department spokesman said the US is responding to an appeal from the United Nations' refugee agency, UNHCR, which has been providing assistance to some 3000 Palestinians stuck in three makeshift camps in the desert in the Syrian- Iraqi border ....

[SWJ Blog] 9 July SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): In summing up US errors in Vietnam, Phillips draws parallels with the American experience in Iraq and Afghanistan and suggests changes in the US approach. Known for his intellectual integrity and firsthand, long-term knowledge of what went on in Vietnam, the author offers lessons for today in this trenchant account.

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