The Battle for Afghanistan and Pakistan

• ptown_trojans_1

  

  One of the nice perks about working in a DC think tanks is access to some interesting and great reports.
  
  The New America Foundation's Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative has released reports on "The Battle of Pakistan" and earlier this week, "The Battle for Afghanistan". Both sites have really interesting, nitty-gritty reports on Pakistan's SWAT and TAT valleys, and Afghanistan's Helmand and Zabul provinces.
  
  The reports use military, local reporting, and various other on the ground policy makers and military members.
  They are really interesting and give the reader way more information than can be found on the news or on cable TV. If you want to get informed on what is going on, here is one area to look.
  
  Also, you can sign up for the daily Afgh/ Pak briefing, which is daily morning briefing on news items from the area.
  
  Note: I do work for New America, and work with some of the authors, so full disclosure. But ,the stuff is realyl good in my view.
  
  The Battle for Afghanistan:
  http://counterterrorism.newamerica.net/the_battle_for_afghanistan_militancy_and_conflict
  
  The Battle for Pakistan:
  http://counterterrorism.newamerica.net/the_battle_for_pakistan
  
  Counterterrorism Strategy:
  http://counterterrorism.newamerica.net/home
  
  Afgh/Pak briefing:
  http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/
• isadore

  has the New America Foundation moved to answer any of these questions posed about it a year and a half ago?
  http://www.prwatch.org/node/8238/
  do you really know fareed zakaria?
  is he ever right on any issue?
  http://www.newamerica.net/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  isadore;485666 wrote:has the New America Foundation moved to answer any of these questions posed about it a year and a half ago?
  http://www.prwatch.org/node/8238/

  Yeah, as far as I know. That stuff is listed on the site, and we all just signed out yearly ethics statements.
  

  do you really know fareed zakaria?
  is he ever right on any issue?
  http://www.newamerica.net/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fareed_Zakaria

  I know he is a board member, but he is not employed here, nor does he work on the Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, that is more Steve Coll and Peter Bergen. Also, Fukayama and Mead are also board members. I haven't seen Fareed once at NAF. But, I respect Fareed and think his latest book on what a multipolar would would look like is very interesting. But, he is not working on this issue with New America at all. It's a non-issue to me on the reports.
  
  
  Oh, and here is the link to the event on Tuesday, which had Michael Waltz, Former advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney on South Asia and Counterterrorism, Major, U.S. Army (reserve component) and was really, really interesting.
  
  http://www.newamerica.net/events/2010/afghanistan_and_pakistan