In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

The new(?) strategy in Afghanistan

| September 21, 2009

With the release of an unclassified version of GEN McChrystal’s assessment (pdf; w/ hat tip to SWJ and the Washington Post) we can finally start to get a handle on the rationale behind the new (?) strategy for Afghanistan.  I have only skimmed the Assessment as yet, but several points jump out at me.  In [...]