... people are engaged in security (5.5 percent of the total contract personnel) and 1.0 thousand people in training (3.4 percent). The work of contract personnel is exposed to the gravest dangers. This is evidenced by the fact that between 2001 and 2015 in Afghanistan
2.2 thousand
US troops were killed while at least
1.6 thousand
contract personnel working for the US Department of Defense lost their lives.
The NATO-led Resolute Support Mission members can also take part in the fighting in Afghanistan. This mostly refers ...
... George W. Bush administration organized an allied invasion to dismantle the terrorist organization and end its use of Afghanistan as a base. In other words USA’s identity is on stake in Afghanistan war. In almost one and hald decade long war in Afghanistan USA has hardly achieved any thing and despite heavy deployment of armed forces it is almost a game going out of control. And that is why USA has changed its policy towards Afghanistan multiple times.U.S. policy toward Afghanistan changed after the 1998 ...
... power in the hands of Shia Iraqis (sectarianism) has never been a good strategy. Finally, air strikes can halt or pull the IS back at best. At worst, one can fail as the U.S. did in Vietnam. You just cannot combat these guys from the sky!
3. Whither Afghanistan?
Well, it's pretty simple. A president of Kabul is not a president of Afghanistan. Almost entire south-east landstrip of the territory is facing considerable or high security threat, terror attacks have been carried out in the Afghan ...
The United States and NATO are withdrawing their forces from Afghanistan, leaving the country in a difficult, albeit not entirely hopeless situation.
On the one hand, the armed conflict in the country rages on. Although its nature is changing, increasingly assuming the form of a confrontation between the insurgents ...
... active in the country. The new mission’s status has not yet been defined, largely because of President Karzai’s refusal to sign a security agreement with Washington and its NATO allies that would give the remaining foreign troops immunity from ... ... option i.e. the complete withdrawal of American troops.
Since 2013, ISAF has been moving large contingents and equipment out of Afghanistan along three main routes.
REUTERS/Chad J. McNeeley/U.S. Army/Handout
Afghan President Hamid Karzai addresses
soldiers ...
Interview with Farkhod Tolipov, Director of Caravan of Knowledge
Interview
Afghanistan’s presidential elections on April 5б 2014 did not deliver an outright winner, and the second round is scheduled for late May. Although people in Afghanistan, the adjacent regions and the wider world all cherish the hope that the future ...
... strengthening its potential is an important resource for Russia in its relations both with the U.S. and within the framework of Russia-USA-Europe triangle.
Despite politicians’ assurances that Russia and NATO have abandoned the zero-sum game in order to combat ... ..., for example cyber security, may develop into another sphere of mutual deterrence and “adequate responses”.
The Afghanistan 2014 Factor
Cooperation on Afghanistan remains a strategic area of cooperation between Russia and NATO. But there ...
... coalition forces of just
173,000
.
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The trial of Saddam Hussein, October 19, 2006
«However, Washington has fully achieved its
declared goal of toppling the Saddam regime.»
The technological gap was not as wide as in Afghanistan, where NATO faced poorly-trained and scantily-equipped Taliban troops formed less than 10 years before. The Iraqi army had had large-scale war experience, appropriate financing and trained personnel, as well as almost 6,000 armored vehicles ...
Leaving Plus Staying
President Obama's policy in Afghanistan seems consistent, but it is far from straightforward. The U.S. administration faces a conundrum: it is time to complete the Afghan antiterrorist operation, but peace is not within sight. But the president still has his second term to wind ...
... the former Northern Alliance).
Different geographic priorities create a certain potential for "division of labor" between Russia and the West along the "North-South" line in case of serious deterioration of Afghan situation. The USA and the UK can, for example, concentrate on South Afghanistan and on the Pashtuns, while Russia – on Afghan Tajiks and Uzbeks in the North. However, there always exists the danger that different as well as similar geographical priorities can lead to fiercer rivalry between outside actors in Central ...
