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    AFGHANISTAN JOURNAL

    Published: 03/15/10

    Pentagon Shifts Focus in Hunt for Deadly Afghan Bombs

    By  David Wood

    Soon after U.S. troops invaded Iraq in 2003, Islamist extremists hit upon what a senior official calls a "winning'' strategy: targeting U.S. troops with cheap but deadly makeshift bombs hidden in roadways, trash heaps and abandoned cars. The United States has mounted a costly and ambitious effort ...

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    Published: 03/10/10

    Afghan War Strategy Risks: Go In Hard or Go In Soft?

    By  David Wood

    CAMP GUERNSEY, Wyo. -- Spread out in combat formation, M-4 carbines loosely held at the ready, Chaos Company's 1st platoon stepped across tufts of dry grass and clots of late-winter snow. When they crested a hill, the village of Ali Kehl came into view. At that point, Sgt. 1st Class Jerell Daniels ...

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    Published: 02/16/10

    Marja: Armageddon for the Taliban?

    By  David Wood

    The full fury of a U.S. military air-ground task force is being unleashed on a small town in southern Afghanistan. Strike jets, helicopter gunships and armed robot drones directed by airborne and satellite sensors tracking enemy movements, and thousands of heavily armed infantrymen are advancing ...

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    Published: 01/25/10

    ACLU Sues Justice for 'Torture Memos' Report

    By  Christopher Weber

    The American Civil Liberties Union has sued the Justice Department to force the release of an internal report on possible ethics violations by the agency lawyers who wrote the Bush administration's so-called torture memos. The ACLU called release of the ethics report "long overdue." In ...

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    Published: 12/16/09

    HQ to Marines in Afghanistan: Sleep in a Hole

    By  David Wood

    Yes, "sleep in a hole," was essentially the response of Gen. James Conway, commandant of the United States Marine Corps, when I asked him Tuesday afternoon whether the he has enough "infrastructure'' to feed and house the 20,000 Marines who will be in southern Afghanistan by early summer. "We do ...

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    Published: 11/20/09

    Afghan Air War: More fighting, More Bombs, and Continued Civilian Casualties

    By  David Wood

    SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. -- American strike fighters and bombers are pounding insurgents in Afghanistan with increasing fury, despite a standing order by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander, to avoid civilian casualties. President Obama is expected soon to announce his decision on a ...

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    Published: 10/30/09

    Wash Yer Hands, Private: Military Hygiene in the Swine Flu Era

    By  David Wood

    In 30 years of covering wars, I've never seen anything like it. At the big U.S. military bases in Afghanistan and even at small combat outposts, troopers coming in for chow at the DFAC (dining facility, e.g. mess hall) dutifully wash their hands ... with hot water and soap. And dry them on paper ...

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    Published: 10/28/09

    Roadside Bombs: The High Cost in Blood and Dollars

    By  David Wood

    While Washington struggles to define just the right strategy for Afghanistan, insurgents there are quietly killing young Americans with terrible efficiency, and all of America's military might cannot stop them. Even as a senior U.S. officer was suggesting to me Tuesday that the Pentagon is on the ...

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    Published: 10/6/09

    How the Taliban Might Respond to McChrystal's New War Plan

    By  David Wood

    The Taliban's response to the Afghan war strategy proposed by Gen. Stanley McChrystal could be shocking and grim, with insurgents redoubling suicide attacks and ambushes against American troops, aircraft and road convoys, triumphantly setting up "liberated zones,'' and executing Afghan police and ...

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    Published: 10/1/09

    Obama's War: Take Your Time

    By  David Wood

    Out on Afghanistan's dusty battlefields, the war is so complicated that some of America's most hardened, experienced counterinsurgency warriors are stymied and frustrated. Frustrated that they don't have the right tools or enough manpower or, most of all, enough time. Frustrated at the difficulty of ...

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