Obama’s Bloody Wars of Occupation - Tom Ricks

June was the bloodiest month of the war in Afghanistan, reports John McCreary, the former DIA analyst who follows the fighting there closely. This seems to be shifting to a war of roadside bombs, very different from the war of a few years ago.
Obama’s Bloody Wars of Occupation
U.S. Inaction Seen After Taliban P.O.W.’s Died - nytimes

After Iraq - The Atlantic (January/February 2008)
new Middle East?and a glimpse of its possible future. ...
After Iraq - The Atlantic (January/February 2008)