MountainRunner (Free subscription) | yesterday
... calls to reporters, are also gaining ground in the information war, analysts say. U.S. General David McKiernan, the commander of 50,000 troops from more than 40 nations in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), ordered the combination of the Public Affairs Office (PAO), Information Operations and Psy Ops (Psychological Operations) from Dec. 1, said a NATO official...
Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
... calls to reporters, are also gaining ground in the information war, analysts say. U.S. General David McKiernan, the commander of 50,000 troops from more than 40 nations in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), ordered the combination of the Public Affairs Office (PAO), Information Operations and Psy Ops (Psychological Operations) from December 1, said a NATO official...
Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | yesterday
U.S. General David McKiernan, the commander of 50,000 troops from more than 40 nations in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), ordered the combination of the Public Affairs Office (PAO), Information Operations and Psy Ops (Psychological Operations) from December 1, said a NATO official with detailed knowledge of the move.
SWJ Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and forbidding terrain... Quoted are many COIN practitioners familiar to SWJ readers: Dr. David Kilcullen - Afghanistan may be the ‘good war,’ but it is also the harder war, Ali A. Jalali - Afghanistan is not Iraq... It is the theme park of problems, General David McKiernan - ... trying to develop a “bottom up” approach in which tribal elders, religious figures and other community...
Corrente (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... said it could undermine the credibility of information released to the public....U.S. General David McKiernan, the commander of 50,000 troops from more than 40 nations in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), ordered the combination of the Public Affairs Office (PAO), Information Operations and Psy Ops (Psychological Operations) from December 1, said a NATO official...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... carrying out cross border attacks from Pakistan. Nato’s commander in the country, the US General David McKiernan, charged that there was “ a level of ISI complicity” between the organisation and the insurgents. ISI was accused of having a direct role in a suicide bomb attack at the Indian embassy in Kabul after US electronics interception revealed contact between the intelligence...
America's North Shore Journal (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Tribal elders from Bala Murghab, officers from the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police, and International Security Assistance Force representatives – including Commander, International Security Assistance Force, General David McKiernan and Italian Army Brigadier General Paolo Serra – recognized the completion of a key bridge in the local area during a shura near Forward Operating...
qwstnevrythg.com (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
U.S. General David McKiernan, the commander of 50,000 troops from more than 40 nations in NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), ordered the combination of the Public Affairs Office (PAO), Information Operations and Psy Ops (Psychological Operations) from December 1, said a NATO official with detailed knowledge of the move.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
U.S. General David McKiernan, the commander of 50,000 troops from more than 40 nations in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), ordered the combination of the Public Affairs Office (PAO), Information Operations and Psy Ops (Psychological Operations) from December 1, said a NATO official with detailed knowledge of the move.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
U.S. General David McKiernan, the commander of 50,000 troops from more than 40 nations in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), ordered the combination of the Public Affairs Office (PAO), Information Operations and Psy Ops (Psychological Operations) from December 1, said a NATO official with detailed knowledge of the move.
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... for almost 30 years, since the Soviet invasion of 1980. “People here are used to violence, Gen. David McKiernan, the U.S. Commander in Afghanistan, says. “But they also have been traumatized by violence.”? ?By 1989, the Afghans had defeated the Soviet invaders — a great and consequential victory, achieved with assistance from the U.S. But once the Russians were gone, Americans and...
