SIGAR: ‘High-Risk List’ Shows Continued Erosion in Afghanistan Reconstruction Among real Afghan security forces there are roughly tens of thousands of fellow soldiers on the roster that don’t exist. Soldiers struggle to receive pay and forces are barely able to retake strategic areas of the country after they fall to insurgents. And the Taliban has made […]
Private contractors can provide immediate relief to a conflict-torn region, but run the risk of damaging the very fabric of the international state system in the long run. BY: TANYA ROHATGI — As President Barack Obama’s time in the White House draws to a close, critics and supporters alike are trying to condense his often disjointed foreign […]
Who guards the guards? BY: Om Astha Rai — Dhan Singh Dhami could have been at his duty station as a security guard in Afghanistan by now, but a four-month ban on Nepalis working in the war-torn country delayed his plan. After the death of 13 Nepalis guarding the Canadian Embassy in a terrorist attack in Kabul […]
How Many Military Missions Does The US Now Carry Out In Africa Every Year? The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), established in 2008 after officially separating from the European Command, has responsibility for all operations, exercises, and military-to-military trainings conducted on the African sub-continent. The U.S. Defense Department maintains six such geographic combatant commands globally.
About 200 U.S. military advisers are embedded with the Iraqi forces advancing toward Mosul, the Pentagon said Monday. The advisers are paired with the Iraqi units that they trained with in preparation for the assault on Mosul, a city of an estimated 1 million Iraqis that the Islamic State group has controlled since summer 2014.