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


Saturday, February 22, 2014

War News for Saturday, February 22, 2014

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from a non-combat related incident in an undisclosed location in northern Afghanistan on Friday, February 22nd.


Balochistan: The untold story of Pakistan's other war


Reported security incidents
#1: Four would-be suicide bombers were killed as their explosive device went off prematurely in former Taliban stronghold of southern Kandahar province on Friday, Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. "A group of four suicide bombers linked to Taliban group were killed by their own explosive device while they were organizing some terrorist attacks in Tora Bagh village, Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province, yesterday," the statement said. The incident took place in a house where a child and two others were also killed.

#2: Militant attacks in three districts of Helmand Province killed five civilians including two women, officials said February 21. The Taliban killed a family of four, including two women, when a rocket they fired hit a home in the Jazi area of Nawzad District, Pajhwok Afghan News reported provincial police spokesman Col. Abdul Ahad Chopan as saying. A roadside blast in the Shawal area of Nade Ali District killed another civilian. A security operation in the Malakhan and Sra Qala areas of Khanshin District killed one rebel and led to nine arrests, border police officer Mohammad Maroof Babakarkhel said.

#3: A roadside bomb targeting a local leader of a nationalist party in northwest Pakistan killed three people and wounded two others on Saturday, police said. The incident took place in Buner district in the troubled northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, close to Swat Valley where Taliban insurgents shot schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai in the head.

#4: Officials in northwest Pakistan say military gunship helicopters have carried out a strike against a militant hideout, killing nine suspected insurgents. Authorities say the military launched the strike Saturday in the village of Thal in the Hangu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

#5: A famer was killed when his tractor hit a roadside mine allegedly planted by insurgents to target the security forces in Khogyani village of Maruf district in southern province of Kandahar, governor office said Saturday.

#6: A person suspected to be a bomb carrier was killed when an explosion occurred in Nasir Bagh area here on Saturday. According to police the blast took place early in the morning in Juma Khan Khwar area and when police reached the area they found the body of an unknown person near the spot of blast.

#7: Four people were killed in an attack in western Afghan province of Herat overnight, an official said on Saturday. "Several militants carried out an attack on Afghan Local Police (ALP) security checkpoint at midnight. One ALP cop, a civilian and two militants were killed during the exchange of fire in Obe district, northeast of provincial capital Herat city," the district governor Shir Agha Alokozai told Xinhua, adding four militants were wounded.

#8: Two policemen were killed and three others wounded as a roadside bomb struck police van in northern Afghan province of Kunduz on Saturday, police said.

#9: Units of Afghan police backed by the army have killed four armed Taliban militants and arrested 21 others across the country over the past 24 hours, Interior Ministry said in a statement released here Saturday.

3 comments:

Dancewater said...

and, over in Iraq (thanks to Information Clearing House for these links):


Iraqi forces retake town seized by gunmen, 48 killed:
Iraqi security forces retook control of a town in Iraq's province of Salahudin, which had been seized by gunmen about a week ago, an army commander said Friday, adding 48 gunmen were killed and 37 others arrested.
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=202201


Militants kill at least 9 troops in eastern Iraq:
A police officer says two bombs targeted a four-vehicle patrol Saturday in the town of al-Saadiyah, 140 kilometers (90 miles) northeast of Baghdad. He says militants opened fire on the troops after the bombing.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/militants-kill-least-9-troops-eastern-iraq-114707812.html#AgkDbqp


3 Iraqis Killed, 17 Injured in Tikrit Blasts:
Three Iraqis were killed and 17 others injured in attacks Saturday in the Northern city of Tikrit, a security official said.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13921203000970


2 gunmen killed while emplacing IED northern Baghdad:
The security forces killed two gunmen while emplacing an Improvised Explosive Device of northern Baghdad.
http://www.iraqinews.com/iraq-war/gunmen-killed-while-emplacing-ied-northern-baghdad/


Iraq announces 72-hour truce in Fallujah:
Halt in military operations come weeks after gunmen took control of city and parts of Anbar province.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/02/iraq-announces-72-hour-truce-fallujah-2014222153442273250.html

Ten years on, the US are helping to destroy Fallujah
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37735.htm

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