by editor | Dec 12, 2009 | Afghanistan, Analysis, Framing, Pakistan, Sensemaking
by Steven R. Corman Jarret Brachman just did a post on a new video by nice-Jewish-boy-turned-AQ-mouthpiece Adam Gadahn (a.k.a Azzam al-Amriki, video linked on Jarret’s site). Jarret points out that this is the first video in a good long while from as-Sahab, and...
by goodall | Dec 2, 2009 | Afghanistan, Analysis, Narrative, Sensemaking
by Bud Goodall Yesterday’s speech by President Barack Obama at West Point about the future of American commitment to Afghanistan contained no real material surprises for anyone paying attention to the news reports that led up to his carefully planned and...
by editor | Nov 18, 2009 | Afghanistan, Politics, Sensemaking
by Steven R. Corman A colleague in the UK military recently sent an e-mail remarking on the brewing controversy in the UK about casualties from the war in Afghanistan. Growing numbers of citizens are witnessing “repatriations” of dead soldiers, and Prime...
by goodall | Oct 7, 2009 | Afghanistan, Defense Dept., Government, Media, Narrative, Obama, Politics, Strategic Comm.
by Bud Goodall One of the important challenges of President Obama’s administration is to sell the continuation of our “overseas contingency operation” (or perhaps FATAVE) in Afghanistan to an increasingly disenchanted audience at home and abroad. But...
by ruston | Sep 3, 2009 | Afghanistan, Analysis, Listening, Narrative, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Scott W. Ruston Admiral Michael Mullen’s recent essay in Joint Forces Quarterly criticizing “strategic communication” lambastes the US government for its failures of strategic communication and the growth of a bloated bureaucracy fueling an...
by halverson | Aug 20, 2009 | Afghanistan, Analysis, Government, Islam, Politics, Sensemaking
by Jeffry Halverson* In the run-up to today’s Afghan elections, the Taliban have been asserting that participation is un-Islamic. But this infidel thinks these students (Talib translates as “student”) deserve an F. A recent New York Times Op-Ed by...