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Army to Field MultiCam in Afghanistan - Maybe

According to numerous sources the Chief of Staff of the Army approved a plan today to field MultiCam to all Army forces in Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) beginning as soon as possible. This is implementation of the decision brief’s Course of Action 1 which called for the fielding of MultiCam to all Army personnel engaged [...]

Taliban's Secondary Commander Captured

From the WJS:

One of the Taliban’s top leaders has been captured in Pakistan in a joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence operatives, U.S. officials said Monday.

The man, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s military chief, is the highest-ranking Taliban figure to be caught since the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. He effectively functions as the Afghan [...]

Troops in Marjah Offensive

From the Wall Street Journal:

MARJAH, Afghanistan—U.S. Marines sent reinforcements to a beleaguered outpost where insurgent fighters were using women and children to carry weapons and shield their attacks on coalition forces.
Bryan Denton for the Wall Street Journal

Marines filed through a field toward Marjah. In the first 24 hours of the assault, which began before dawn [...]

Danish Special Forces in Afghanistan

ISAF Begins Major Offensive in Afghan

From The New York Times

MARJA, Afghanistan — Thousands of American, Afghan and British troops attacked the watery Taliban fortress of Marja early Saturday, moving on foot, in trucks and through the air to destroy the insurgency’s largest haven and begin a campaign to reassert the dominance of the Afghan government in a large [...]

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