From the Front, 06-28-10 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:
A Little Pink in a World of Camo:My Heaven
Old Blue: Fable Illustrated
Stephen Farrell: Embedistan
The Canada-Afghanistan Blog: The Senate Commitee Witnesses
Fraser From Iraq: Institutionalized Habits
Free Range International: Petraeus Comes East
HERMANEUTICS: AFGHANISTAN: Faith
Bill Wilson: Troops’ Funding Held Hostage by Public Sector Union Politics
IraqPundit: Political World Cup
IraqPundit: Amusing Things
Jalalabad Fab Lab blog: Bagrami school
Jamie McIntyre: In Defense of “Off-The-Record”
JD Johannes: The Times Aren’t a Changing
Kit Up!: SOCOM Cancels Mk-16 SCAR
OPFOR: Problems at the Top
Rajiv Srinivasan: The Last Patrol
Red Bull Rising: The Loudest Quiet Place in the Army
Red Bull Rising: Our Eyes in the Skies
Nathan Hamm: Lying Satellites and Kyrgyzstan’s Course
Guard Wife: Perspective From the Flipside
Sarah: A Hobby Is Not the Answer For Me Either
Texas Music: Poolside
The Unknown Soldiers: Forever young
What? Mermaids?: two enthusiastic thumbs up!
Wings Over Iraq: You realize they’re mocking us, right?
Spencer Ackerman: 9 Years In, U.S. Finally Tries to Get a Grip on Warzone Contractors
Katherine Tiedemann: Daily brief: nearly 100 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan killed in June
The Captain’s Journal: The Side Effects of the Afghanistan Rules of Engagement
Gian P. Gentile: Freeing the Army from the Counterinsurgency Straightjacket
Jules Crittenden: All The Rage
News from the Home Front:
Army Announces Conversion of Brigade to Stryker Configuration
A Year at War, Chronicling Soldiers’ Deployment in the Afghan Surge
One Battalion’s Wrenching Deployment to Afghanistan
News from the Front:
Iraq:
Hundreds displaced by Iranian, Turkish bombardments of Kurdish rebels
Baghdad’s Green Zone also to suffer electricity blackouts
4 Shop Owners Die in Iraqi Robberies
In Iraq, Divvying Up the Spoils of Political War
Muqtada Sadr’s Mahdi Army militiamen slowly resurface
Afghanistan:
Talks with Taliban anger minorities
Karzai nominates key cabinet positions
Miliband for peace deal with Taliban
Northern Afghan airstrike kills 8 militants
NATO death toll climbs in Afghan war
15 insurgents killed by their own bombs in Afghan mosque
McChrystal’s Afghan rules of engagement won’t change despite shakeup, U.S. tells Karzai
Alpha Company Provides Medical Care to Now Zad Residents
Shadow Over Afghanistan
Afghan-international Force Precision Airstrike Targets Insurgents in Kunduz
Panetta says Afghan insurgents show no real interest in reconciliation talks
Panetta says Afghan progress slower than expected
U.S. officials say Karzai aides are derailing corruption cases involving elite
Obama Cites ‘Obsession’ on Afghanistan Timeline
NATO says increased military ops behind death toll
Hamid Karzai given timetable by G8 to tackle corruption in Afghanistan
NATO, civilians give 2 accounts of fatal operation
The Thunder Run’s From the Front is a daily series that highlights news and personal dispatches from the front and the home front.
