From the Front, 05-24-10 by David Marron
In today’s From the Front: (Click on link to read stories highlighted below) This post is courtesy of The Thunder Run
Dispatches:
Kandahar Diary: The Bad Guys Step It Up
Joint Media Ops: Command and control changes in southern Afghanistan
A Handful of Dust: “So When’s The Movie Coming Out?”
A Little Pink on a World of Camo: New Ink
Bouhammer: Ready America, We see the Worst summer has started
Army Live: “Neck Up, Check Up”
MAJ ADAM WOJACK: The Impact of Another Soldier’s Death
Bullet Wisdom: A Memorial
Castra Praetoria: On Professionalism…
Free Range International: Tribal Militias
Family Matters Blog: Single Moms Deal With Tough Demands
Lieutenant David Duffus: Speaking their language: Working with the ANA
Private Daryn Liddle: Cricket woes: Afghans beat us at our own game
Corporal Caroline Storm: Round Two in Afghanistan
Captain Jeremy Hahn: Heat and dust: First impressions of Afghanistan
Lieutenant Colonel Charlie Herbert: The Challenges of working with an embryonic Afghan National Army
Helmand Blog – Afghanistan: First British Female Soldiers Complete the United States Marine Corps Female Engagement Team Course
IraqPundit: Does Obama Understand?
IraqPundit: Maliki Skips Lunch
Kerplunk: Catching up with … Big Ern
Kit Up!: The Gear behind the Afghan War Embed
Kit Up!: Afghan Muzzle Discipline — Or Not
Kit Up!: EOD Gets Their MultiCam on in Afghanistan
The Kitchen Dispatch: Restrepo: Little Rock Film Festival
Bill Roggio: Pakistan hits Taliban in Arakzai
Loving A Soldier Blog: Mail the kids to Daddy! (or Mom)
Lt Col P: Kandahar Takes Center Stage
C.J. Chivers: In Afghan Fields, a Challenge to Opium’s Luster
Rajiv Srinivasan: The Qualitative Point Average: Rebuttal to Bruce Fleming
Registan.net: Kazakhstan: What Al Missed
Sic Semper Tyrannis: Afghan News
Terry Galvin: Wazhma Frogh: No Reward For Bullies, No Impunity For Strongmen.
The Unknown Soldiers: The future is now
The Unknown Soldiers: Finding Comfort
The Captain’s Journal: Revisiting Kamdesh: The Sellout of COP Keating and What it Can Teach Us
The Belmont Club: The New International Order
News from the Home Front:
In blindness, soldiers find new niche in military
22nd Military Police Battalion soldiers return home from Iraq tonight
A death at Lewis-McChord’s Madigan
Boredom as damaging as combat?
Court: No habeas rights for prisoners in Afghanistan
News from the Front:
Iraq:
Iraqi prime minister Maliki warns against rushing to form new government –
Yemeni cleric calls for killing US civilians
Baghdad’s tepid nightlife
Top Shiite cleric in Iraq calls for unity
Fresh Appeals Lodged In Iraqi Election Impasse
Iraqi prime minister Maliki warns against rushing to form new government
Afghanistan:
Aussie troops build presence in Kandahar ahead of NATO push
Army’s bomb disposal chief Bob Seddon resigns with protest
Afghanstan war: Convoy security deal to benefit Karzai’s brother?
Russia Gives U.S. Afghan Drugs Data, Criticises NATO
Insurgents Attack NATO’s Southern Afghan Base
Rebels Attack Base in Afghanistan
Afghans accuse Defence Secretary Liam Fox of racism and disrespect
Britain Says Not Setting Timetable on Afghan Pullout
U.S. night raid in Afghanistan elicits outrage, satisfaction
Taliban win £1,600 bounty for each Nato soldier killed
Afghan Government and Taliban Deny Formal Talks
Results of Kandahar offensive may affect future U.S. moves
Into Kandahar, Yesterday and Tomorrow
IJC Operational Update, May 24
Taliban defiance on show with attacks on Afghan NATO bases
Fox vows to fully equip troops in Afghanistan
U.S. troops, Afghan police launch operation to patrol Taliban stronghold
‘Pak efforts have eliminated Taliban strongholds in Swat, Waziristan’
The Thunder Run’s From the Front is a daily series that highlights news and personal dispatched from the front and the home front.
