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...GENERAL MCCHRYSTAL’S STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT: EVALUATING THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT IN AFGHANISTAN IN THE SUMMER OF 2009 Introduction . . . .1 The Tasking . . . .2 The Team . . . . 3 The Assessment Begins . . . .7 Early Organizational Difficulties and Cultural Clashes . . . .10 The Team Comes Together...

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... General McChrystal’s strategic AssessmentEvaluating the Operating Environmentin Afghanistan in the Summer of 2009 Matthew C. Bra... ...Chrystal’s strategic AssessmentEvaluating the Operating Environmentin Afghanistan in the Summer of 2009 Matthew C. Brand ... ...s of issues of current or potential importance to the nation. This paper and others in the series are available elec- tronically at the Air Univ... ...AL MCCHRYSTAL’S STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT:EVALUATING THE OPERATING ENVIRONMENT INAFGHANISTAN IN THE SUMMER OF 2009 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ... Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. His previous assign-ment was the United States Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A)command historian from June 2009 to June ... ...rship of Army general David McKier-nan and recognizing a decline in overall security in Afghanistanoccurring since 2006, Pres. Barack Obama named Army... ... the turn-in of the strategic assessment un-til after the 20 August Afghan presidential elections. Then 22the elections appeared... ... • Access to Justice • Expansion of Accountable and Transparent Governance • Elections and Continuity of Governance • Action against Ir... ...ral McChrystal decidedto delay the document turn-in until after the Afghan presidential elections on20 Aug 2009. 19. Kolenda, interview. 20. Ibid. ...

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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix CENTRALIZED CONTROL AND DECENTRALIZED EXECUTION: A CATCHPHRASE IN CRISIS? . . . 1 Salvaging the Master Tenet . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Historical Context and an Age-Old Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Breaking Down the Master Tenet and Un...

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...eseArCH institUte Centralized Control and Decentralized execution A Catchphrase in Crisis? Clint Hinote Lieutenant Colonel, USA... ...mportance to Air Force commanders and their staffs. This monograph and oth- ers in the series are also available electronically at the Air Unive... ... . . . ixCENTRALIZED CONTROL AND DECENTRALIZEDEXECUTION: A CATCHPHRASE IN CRISIS?. . . . . . . . . . 1 Salvaging the... ... Fundamental Issues . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Challenges in Iraq and Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Answering ... ...the imprecise meaning of the words involved.Furthermore, the irregular conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq(and the ongoing service debates in the Pacifi... ...en inthe current operational environment, including ongoing opera-tions in Iraq and Afghanistan. In response to these challenges, this monograph conc... ...was threat-ening to undo many gains made over previous years, includingtwo landmark elections and a constitutional referendum.79 Of-ficers involved in... ...e airpower presence throughout the country in a way thatwas similar to the previous elections in Iraq.96 To make thishappen, the CFACC directed that a... ...cessed 6 October 2007). 96. For a description of air operations in support of the elections, seeHoward D. Belote, “Counterinsurgency Airpower: Air-G...

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... The Arab-Israeli Wars: A Conflict of Strategic Attrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67 Stewart Reiser Prolonged Conflict in the Sudan . . . . . . . . .99 Ann Mosely Lesch Fire in the Horn: Prolonged War in Ethiopia and Eritrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Cobie Harris Chad: The Apparent Permanence of Ethno-Regional...

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...Publication Data Backcover Motto Preface Chapter 1: TOTALITARIANISM 1 • What is Freedom? 2 • Life in a Dictatorship 6 • The Nature of Totalitarianism 7 • The Soviet Union: 1917-1984 9 • Totalitarian Foreign Policies 23 (Soviet Foreign Policies: 1917-1984 /  China and Tibet: 1950-1991 /  Sparta and the Ci...

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... On to Mexico, Avoiding Police Chapter 3 Mexico to India Close Encounters with Corrupt Police, Santa-Cruz Shootout Stoned by Turks, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Himalayas, Goa Chapter 4 London to Wales to India Down and Out in London, Madeline Goes Mad, Naked Chase Hitching to India, Smugglers Train Hunted in Pakistan, The Valley o...

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...CONTENTS Publication Data Backcover Motto Preface Chapter 1: TOTALITARIANISM 1 • What is Freedom? 2 • Life in a Dictatorship 6 • The Nature of Totalitarianism 7 • The Soviet Union: 1917-1984 9 • Totalitarian Foreign Policies 23 (Soviet Foreign Policies: 1917-1984 / China and Tibet: 1950-1991 / Sparta and the City States of An...

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...onal Technical 5285 Port Royal Re Springfield, VA 22Requesters outside the USested in subscription serv :cific publications either iifor... ... and the US Department of State. Ingeneral, information available as of 1January 1986 was used in the preparation ofthis edition, with the following e... ...viations, and Explanatory Notes Abu Dhabi (see United Arab Emirates) Afghanistan Ajman (see United Arab Emirate... ...281D. Conversion Table 283E. Country Membership in Selected Organizations 284Maps ... ...not fully independent, and others are not officiallyrecognized by the United States Government.Afghanistan industry, 6.3% co... ...ratic Party of Exports: $778 million (f.o.b., 1985); mostlyAfghan Afghanistan (since December 1979); Soltan fruits ... ...operational battalions Albanian Elections: national elections held every fourMilitary m... ...y manpower: males 15-49, about Ethnic divisions: 96% Albanian; remaining years; last elections 12 November 1982;3,657,000; 2,030,000 fit for... ...at age 18 goods 25.0%, foodstuffs 18.0%; France 25.7%, US 6.0%Elections: presidential, 12 January 1984;departmental a...

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...The 2 Faces of the Taliban The New Great Game Germany‘s Role in the Rise of Lenin and the Russian CommunismThe Afghan Oil... ...ciliation Between Turkey and Israel Viabel? Drug Trafficking and Terrorism in Latin America The World Heroin ProductionThe Terrorist Groups... ... IntroductionThe following chapters are independent essays written in June and July2016, and they can be read in any order.The wars for the ... ... 2 Faces of the TalibanAt the following map you can see the Pashtun areas of Afghanistan andPakistan. The Pashtuns are a martial Sunni tribe, and they... ... Pashtuns are a martial Sunni tribe, and they are the largestethnic group of Afghanistan, while they are the second largest group ofPakistan. Punjabis... ...millions of the Pasthtun population live inPakistan, and 14 millions live in Afghanistan. But Pashtuns very often crossthe borders, and therefore the ... ...ter Samir Rifai along with the cabinet. The governmentmoved up parliamentary elections by two years in January 2013, and security forceslargely avoide...

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...Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication DataLow-Intensity Conflict in the Third World by Lewis B. Wa... ...nting January 2003 DISCLAIMERThis publication was produced in the Department of Defense school environment in the interestof academic ... ...d the advancement of national defense-related concepts. The viewsexpressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not reflect the officia... .... .... .... .... . ... . .... .... .... .... ... 43 The Afghanistan Invasion .... .... .... .... . ... . ... .... . ... . .... ....... ... and had promised to enfranchiseopposing political opinion. But the rigged elections were engineered in sucha way as to deny all but the Communists le... ...s point to the parallels between the Basmachi revolt and thepresent war in Afghanistan. A study of selected Soviet experiences in such conflicts yield... ... possible inventory oftactics that would bring about desirable outcomes in Afghanistan and infuture conflicts. In studying these regions, one quickly ... ...ce or coerced into making tele-vision statements. Tribal and local council elections in August-September1985 were neither secret nor marked by the usu... ...es from opponents, and violating human rights at will. Neither demo-cratic elections nor effective opposition parties were permitted on thepolitical s...

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