by Joshua Foust | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
An MQM-74C aerial target drone launches from the deck of the dock landing ship USS Tortuga for a scheduled missile exercise. Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Cmdr. James Ridgeway/Released Cross-posted from Joshua Foust’s column for PBS’ Need To Know. Drones are a hot topic...
by Galen Petruso | Sep 7, 2012 | Monitor
An Afghan girl covers herself during a dust storm at a hilltop in Kabul (Reuters) Cross-posted from Joshua Foust’s column for The Atlantic This week marks two watershed events in the war in Afghanistan: suspending the police training mission and...
by Joshua Foust | Sep 6, 2012 | Monitor
Injured Afghan men arrive at a hospital in the back of a truck, along with the dead bodies of other victims, after a suicide attack on a funeral in Durbaba district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Photo: AP Photo/Rahmat Gul...
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 | Sep 6, 2012 | Monitor
In his latest for PBS’ Need to Know, ASP Fellow Joshua Foust discusses the conspicuous lack of discussion about Afghanistan in the presidential candidates’ campaigns. Noting that 68,000 US troops will still be in Afghanistan come Election Day,...
