by Ashley Boyle | Sep 20, 2012 | Monitor
ASP Fellow Joshua Foust is quoted in The National Interest on the deteriorating security environment in Afghanistan as US and NATO troops continue to conduct training missions ahead of the 2014 exit date. “The training mission is the foundation of the...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 19, 2012 | Monitor
Marine reserves, attached to Special Marine Air-Ground Task Force-24, and a group of Peruvian Marines, listen to the range orientation brief in English and Spanish before a 2010 training exercise. Photo: DVIDS Insurgents and terrorists in Yemen, Somalia and beyond owe...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 18, 2012 | Monitor
Petty Officer 2nd Class Andrew J. Bradley demonstrates to Afghan soldiers how to properly tie a tourniquet during a combat life-saver course, April 5, 2011 at Forward Operating Base Delaram, Afghanistan. Photo: ISAF/Flickr On paper, the path out of Afghanistan for the...
by Ashley Boyle | Sep 6, 2012 | Monitor
ASP Fellow Joshua Foust discusses the challenges faced by the ISAF training mission in Afghanistan. Suffering from high desertion rates and increasingly frequent insider attacks, ISAF recently decided to suspend its police force training operations. Further...
by Ashley Boyle | Aug 13, 2012 | Monitor
ASP Fellow Joshua Foust is quoted in a report by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on a recent increase in “green on blue” attacks in Afghanistan. Foust explains that the purpose of these attacks is to “undermine confidence” in the...