The present-day U.S. military qualifies by any measure as highly professional, much more so than its Cold War predecessor. Yet the purpose of today’s professionals is not to preserve peace but to fight unending wars in distant places. Intoxicated by a post-Cold War belief in its own omnipotence, the United States allowed itself to be drawn into a long series of armed conflicts, almost all of them yielding unintended consequences and imposing greater than anticipated costs. Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. forces have destroyed many targets and killed many people. Only rarely, however, have they succeeded in accomplishing their assigned political purposes. . . . [F]rom our present vantage point, it becomes apparent that the “Revolution of ‘89” did not initiate a new era of history. At most, the events of that year fostered various unhelpful illusions that impeded our capacity to recognize and respond to the forces of change that actually matter.

Andrew Bacevich


Thursday, September 27, 2012

War News for Thursday, September 27, 2012

The DoD is reporting a new death previously unreported by the military. Gunners Mate 2nd Class Dion Rashun Roberts died in a vehicle accident in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan on Saturday, September 22nd. He was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.


‘CIA sends monthly fax to ISI outlining drone attack plans’

Local soldier critically wounded in Afghanistan

Afghan troops taking on perilous fight against insurgency

25 Japanese SDF personnel sent to Iraq commit suicide


Reported security incidents
#1: A total of 45 Taliban militants were killed during military operations in different Afghan provinces within the past 24 hours, the country's Ministry of Interior Affairs said Thursday. "Afghan National Police in collaboration with the army and the NATO-led coalition forces launched six joint cleanup operations in Kunduz, Uruzgan, Wardak, Ghazni, Ghor and Helmand provinces, killing 45 armed Taliban insurgents and detaining 32 other suspects over the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a statement providing daily operational updates to the media.

#2: Two civilians were killed and two other civilians were wounded when an explosive device fixed in a motorcycle went off in a bazaar in Musa Qala district of southern Helmand province on Wednesday afternoon, provincial police spokesman Farid Ahmad Farhang told Xinhua on Thursday morning.


DoD: Gunners Mate 2nd Class Dion Rashun Roberts

Posted by whisker at 4:34 AM

2 comments:

plasterers bristol said...

Grst blog and news articles

September 27, 2012 at 5:31 AM
Dancewater said...

Living under drones video

A short video on the effects of Obama's drone attacks on Pakistan.

The majority of my co-workers do not know about Obama's kill lists and drone attacks and Terror Tuesday meetings.

I am finding that American stupidity is getting on my very last nerve.

September 27, 2012 at 9:08 AM

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