Pat Dollard

(Reuters) — Fifteen Pakistani soldiers stood blindfolded, handcuffed to each other on a barren hilltop as one of their bearded Taliban captors held an AK-47 rifle and spoke with fury about revenge. He left no doubt what would come at any second. Pakistan’s Taliban abducted the paramilitary troops on December 23 from near the country’s [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged Tuesday that the United States may release several Afghan Taliban prisoners from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as an incentive to bring the Taliban to peace talks. Director of National Intelligence Jim Clapper told Congress Tuesday that no decision had been made on whether to trade [...]

CNN: Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Pakistan continues to support the Taliban in Afghanistan, a secret NATO report says, according to a journalist who has read it, despite years of Pakistani denials and American pressure to stop backing the insurgency The Taliban depend on Pakistan for support, even though they do not necessarily welcome it, Times [...]

KABUL (Reuters) – The U.S. military said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control of Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw, raising the prospect of a major failure of Western policy after a costly war. Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, [...]

Carpenean.com Wyoming National Guard Capt. Bruce E. Hays was killed in Gerdia Seria, Afghanistan by an IED. Before he was deployed he gave his wife a 1959 Chevy Apache truck as an anniversary gift. He and his wife Terry were planning on restoring the truck, but Hays was soon again deployed. Hays gave a mechanic [...]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Talks between the Afghan Taliban and the United States in Qatar almost failed as the Taliban leadership reportedly refused to accept the U.S. demand of a ceasefire before swapping prisoners. Sources in the Afghan Taliban said the Taliban had set up an office in Qatar hoping that it would help in a [...]

I am personally torn on this issue. I am one of those peace through superior firepower we need a KICK ASS military types. But I have said for years Afghanistan should have stayed a Special Ops war. However I also see that Iraq needed to be a boots on the ground war. We need to [...]

Heritage Foundation: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta today laid out details of a plan to cut a half a trillion dollars from defense spending. That’s in addition to the half-trillion in cuts required under the Budget Control Act. The Wall Street Journal reports that, as part of the plan to cope with funding cuts and reduced [...]

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Miami Herald: Inspired by Monday night’s Republican presidential debate over immigration, Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, filed a bill that would give young people who serve in the military — not college students — a path to U.S. citizenship. “If somebody is willing to die for America, then certainly they deserve a chance at life in [...]