In a previous post, I have featured a widely published diagram which had obviously been created for enlightening its attentive viewers in the incredibly complicated situation in the war on terror in Afghanistan 9 years after 9/11. I have referred to an interesting analogy in Medicine, in particular, systems biology where teachers now and then [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Isaf’
The Revenge Effect
Posted in Afghanistan, NATO, tagged CIVCAS, insurgents, Isaf, Jacob N. Shapira, Joseph H. Felter, Kunduz, Luke N. Condra, National Bureau of Economic Research, Radha K. Iyengar on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ramadan in Afghanistan
Posted in Afghanistan, Islam, tagged alcoholic beverages, Angela Merkel, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Franz Josef Jung, German Armed Forces, Isaf, Kunduz, Ramadan, Stanley McChrystal on September 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised that the circumstances under which 125 people, many of them civilians (in fact 70), were killed in a NATO air strike last week near Kunduz in northern Afghanistan will be scrutinized carefully. The German Colonel Georg Klein had ordered the air strike after two fuel tankers had been hijacked by the [...]
Better Off If the Europeans Had Never Got Involved
Posted in Afghanistan, Germany, USA, tagged Brookings Institution, Center on the US and Europe, Enduring Freedom, Isaf, Jeremy Shapiro, Nato, Spiegel online, War Against Terror on February 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview today, Jeremy Shapiro, Director of Research at the Center on the US and Europe at Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, mentions that the Unites States would have been better off if the European had never been involved in Afghanistan. “The European effort, [...]
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