Nation-Building

The U.S. Plot to Blow Up the Afghan Ministry of Defense

Times have gotten tougher in Afghanistan given the latest green-on-blue attacks, where Afghan troops – or at least killers clad like Afghan troops – have taken to killing U.S. and other allied personnel with firearms or suicide vests. Army Major David Fitzpatrick, who was deployed as a trainer for the Afghan military in Kabul from …

Solar Systemic Failure

It was just over a year ago that a senior U.S. military officer in Afghanistan was raving about the solar-powered streetlights popping up in Kabul:

There is no reliable electric grid here in this city of 5 million people, and so

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