A recent Washington Post article suggests that the Taliban has endured the recent offensive by NATO and U.S. forces with its numerical strength intact (Slobodan Lekic, “Taliban Strength Unaffected by Allied Surge,” Washington Post, 6 January 2011). “A NATO official said this week that the alliance estimates current number of insurgent fighters at up to […]
Tag Archives: Afghanistan
Coach's Corner faces heat for using platform to promote military stance
Hockey Fans for Peace, a newly created Vancouver-based group, plans on challenging Don Cherry’s provocative pro-war comments on Coach’s Corner, stating that his program is not the place to promote Cherry’s military beliefs (Jack Keating, “Hockey Fan group challenge Cherry’s ‘pro war’ stance,” Postmedia News, 5 January 2011): Hockey Fans for Peace plans to rally […]
Canada on the international stage: Looking back at 2010
In this CTV News article, Steven Staples and other foreign policy analysts look back on an eventful 2010, identifying two major Canadian foreign policy failures and blaming poor diplomacy and a lack of Canadian leadership on international issues (Josh Visser, “Did Canada punch above its weight on the world stage?” CTV.ca news, 25 December 2010): […]
How NATO came to Afghanistan
Historian and journalist Gareth Porter on the process that led to NATO being in Afghanistan (Gareth Porter, “How Afghanistan became a war for NATO,” Inter Press Service, 3 January 2011): The official line of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the NATO command in Afghanistan, is that the war against Afghan insurgents is vital to […]
Trainers will be mostly away from Kabul?
CTV News reports that the trainers that the Harper government has promised to keep in Afghanistan following the end of Canada’s combat mission are not likely to be mainly in Kabul, despite the government’s earlier promises (“Canadian trainers likely to be sent across Afghanistan,” CTV News, 31 December 2010): The Canadian Forces is rushing to […]
Canadians split on Afghan extension
Canadians are split on the Harper government’s plan to extend Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan reports an Angus Reid Poll released on Monday (Jill Mahoney, “Canadians divided on Afghan training mission: poll,” Globe and Mail, 13 December 2010). According to the poll, 48% of Canadians support the extension of the mission, while 44% oppose the […]