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Archive for December 19th, 2009

Quest for the European Perspective – III

The earlier quests here and here.
Thomas Ruttig has translated an Interview with Bernt Glatzer who was an ethnologist with focus on Afghanistan. The interview is on the role ethnologists may be able to play in COIN.

SufiLore #2 – The Regional Perspective

I was reading today’s DieZeit articles on Afghanistan, in particular the current discussions in Germany going on over the air strike on petrol trucks in Kunduz and wondering how here in Central Europe the war in Afghanistan is primarily a war over our morale. As McChrystal has suggested we are leading a completely people-centred COIN [...]

Exit Strategy III – An Austrian Solution for Afghanistan

Peter Tomsen (former chargĂ© d’affaires of the US to the Northern Alliance) has proclaimed a possible exit strategy from Afghanistan based on an Austrian State Treaty Model from 1955. in: Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Vol. 25, Winter 2001
The same guy had a shot at the predictioner’s game concerning the Taliban way back in 2000, [...]