From ARES/Aviation Week:
The debate over the increasingly contentious American drone strikes in Pakistan and the climbing civilian casualty rates in Afghanistan moved front and center this week with the publication of an op-ed by counterinsurgency think tankers David Kilcullen and Andrew Exum, who called for an end to the Predator strikes in Pakistan, and an incident in Afghanistan where at least 30 civilians were killed during a firefight turned airstrike in which Taliban fighters used civilians as human shields—until an American B-1 bomber dropped a pair of two-ton bombs on the problem.
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My Comment: Another must read post on the war in Afghanistan/Pakistan. The author reiterates the concerns of counterinsurgency think tankers David Kilcullen and Andrew Exum on the effects that U.S. Predator and Air Strikes are having on the civilians in the area.
I believe that his concerns are justified .... but the White House has made it very clear that the surge in Afghanistan and a ramping up of air strikes in Pakistan is now on the agenda in this war.
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