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Posts Tagged ‘Drone attack’

Strategic Dialogue and Then Strategic Drone Attacks

By Rizwan Darvesh • Mar 28th, 2010 • Category: Politics

Right at the time, when the ministers and advisors are having a ball in the capital and issuing ecstatic statements regarding the unprecedented success in Washington DC, a drone has hit once again in Pakistan.
‘Strategic dialogue’ with Pakistan is the new buzzword in the town. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the [...]



Quetta Attack Plan

By A Khokar • Dec 18th, 2009 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

When President Obama explained his decision to send 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan to support General Stanley McChrystal’s new counterinsurgency campaign, he left a key question unanswered: Will this be enough to achieve U.S. strategic ends in Af-Pak?
U.S. military counterinsurgency doctrine calls for a security force ratio of 20 to 25 counterinsurgents for every [...]