As always – I was just about to Quit Firefox when on on my last scroll movement on Stephen Walt’s FP blog I stumble across a link to a new (to me) PBS Documentary on their AfPak Channel – Obamas War. Sit back and prepare to spend the rest of the evening watching and following [...]
Richard Holbrooke has been appointed by the Obama administration as the special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has subsequently assembled a team of experts under his wings that (according to George Packer in his New Yorker article) numbers around 30 people. Since this team is essential for the further progress of the conflicts in the area, the counter insurgency going on and possible prospects of rebuilding the Afghan economy and keeping Pakistan stable, I want to investigate the team’s members further and provide some information about them and their work to date.