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


Tuesday, June 11, 2013

War News for Tuesday, June 11, 2013


Taliban surge expected to continue

Taliban release Kyrgyzstan national abducted in Afghanistan


Reported security incidents
#1: Eight Taliban militants had been killed and 12 others wounded following a clash in the southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, the police said on Tuesday. "Militants numbered 25 launched an armed attack on Afghan National Police (ANP) checkpoints in Nahri Sarraj district on Monday, triggering a two-hour gunfight. As a result eight Taliban were killed and 12 others wounded," a senior provincial police source Abdul Satar Noorzai told Xinhua. Two militants were detained and no member of the ANP was harmed in the clash in the province, 555 km south of National capital Kabul, Noorzai added.


News: Civ. Joseph Morabito

It/MoD: Cap. Giuseppe La Rosa

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