Wow.  What a catch, and I certainly hope they are able to get all the information they can out of this guy in order for us to get closer to Usama Bin Laden or Mullah Omar.  We can only hope, and this is some outstanding war news. -Matt
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Afghan Taliban Military Chief Captured, Aides Confirm 
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     Low pay, long-hour duty and no training negatively influence the morale of the guards who fail to satisfy the clients.
    ”I am continuously paying private security companies and changing guards, but now I feel obliged to arrange personal employees instead of hiring from a company as it failed me,” said a business man. 
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   This is a good one for you guys and gals across the pond.  I am sure those contractors with a SIA will get the first shot on something like this. I am not the point of contact, nor am I recruiting for these folks, and just follow the directions and link below.  Good luck. […]

   This is a good briefing on where we are at politically and strategically with the use of drones. -Matt
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The Drone Wars
January 9, 2010
Weapons like the Predator kill far fewer civilians.
The Obama Administration has with good reason taken flak for its approach to terrorism since the Christmas Day near-bombing over Detroit. So permit us to […]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who has written about the efficacy of samizdat in undermining the Soviet Union, sees a similar dynamic at work here. “The freedom of communication and the nature of it,” he has said, “is a huge strategic asset for the United States.” 
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    These three stories are all inter-related and based on this […]

   This is interesting.  I have always thought that AQ and the Taliban were behind the new media assault against PMC’s and PSC’s in Pakistan, and this is just more indication of such.  If you ever follow the Pakistani blogosphere, in regards to companies like BW or DynCorp, you would think those companies were Satan […]

     Thanks to Doug for sending me this one.  Although I am pretty sure the Pakistanis are only seeking to offer this deal to their own people.  Although you never know.  Bill Roggio of the Long War Journal might actually get a tip from a reader, that Bill could use to inform the Pakistanis with.  I […]

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“Within just months of arriving in the Afghan war theater in 2005, Kashmiri redefined the Taliban-led insurgency based on legendary Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap’s three-pronged guerrilla warfare strategy. For the Taliban, the main emphasis was to be placed on cutting NATO’s supply lines from all four sides of Afghanistan, and carrying out special operations similar […]

   I wanted to post Bill’s running commentary on the whole thing, because he ‘builds the snowmobiles’ out of all of this information.  He is also a war maven, and I highly recommend following the Long War Journal with Google Reader or similar.
   Now on to this operation.  This could be bloody for the Pakistanis. […]