The Fog of War / By: Bruce G. Richardson Monday, 04.01.2013, 10:25pm |
There
is little that can be construed as rational when a nation is in a state of war.
But there exist events that often defy the most nefarious and or
conspiracy-bound theories |
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Pipeline Politics…A Mercantile War / By: Bruce G. Richardson Saturday, 03.30.2013, 12:38pm |
At
the end of December 1979, the world’s greatest land army claiming falsely that
they “had been invited by the Afghan Government” invaded Afghanistan |
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Operation Kaskad / By: Bruce G. Richardson Tuesday, 03.26.2013, 11:26pm |
Covert Soviet Contingency Plans and
Preparations for the dismemberment of Afghanistan along ethnic and linguistic
lines re-surface as a post-Cold War Stratagem with profound implications for
modern-day Afghanistan |
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The untouchable: a new breed of warlord Monday, 03.25.2013, 11:44am |
Preaching his
anti-Taliban credentials, Hakim Shujoyi has enlisted the protection of US
forces. But locals say he is a brutal killer whose men rape and rob their way
through parts of Oruzgan. |
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Stealing a Nation’s Cultural Property and History: Trafficking in (stolen) Antiquities during a Time of War By: Bruce G. Richardson Saturday, 03.23.2013, 10:53pm |
When
Russian archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi excavated Tilya Tepe in 1978, 21,000
bejeweled, gold artifacts created during the Greco-Bactrian era and known as The Golden Hoard of Bactria were
reported as inventoried, photographed, and catalogued |
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Afghanistan, in the year 2014 and beyond / By: Faheem Nazimi Friday, 03.22.2013, 01:03pm |
The international
engagement to stabilize and help rebuild war-torn Afghanistan after the
U.S.-led military intervention in 2001, in response to al-Qaeda’s September 11
attacks, has had a transformative effect in helping Afghanistan re emerge from
two decades of conflict. |
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