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


Monday, August 5, 2013

War News for Monday, August 05, 2013

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from a non-combat related injury in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, August 5th.

The polish MND is reporting the death of a Polish soldier. kapral Łukasz Sroczyński died at the Military Medical Institute in Warsaw on Saturday, August 3rd. He was wounded from a direct fire/gunshot wounds attack in Ghazni, Afghanistan on Saturday, December 22nd, 2012. Two additional soldiers were wounded in the attack.


Monsoon Floods Kill Dozens in Asia

Train blast leaves 3 people dead near Toba Tek Singh


Reported security incidents
#1: Four civilians have been killed by a bomb hidden inside a cart at a livestock market in southern Afghanistan, a provincial official said. Jawed Faisal, a spokesman for the governor, said 10 other people were injured in the blast in the city of Kandahar. It was not clear what the bomb was targeting.


Pol:MND: kapral Łukasz Sroczyński

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