via PBS http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/… Need to Know’s resident editorial cartoonist Steve Brodner looks at Afghanistan’s future through the eyes of all the power players envisioning a favorable outcome — for themselves. Need to Know airs Fridays on PBS. Watch full-length episodes of Need to Know athttp://video.pbs.org/program/1458405365/
via themontrealgazette Exclusive footage of Quebec soldiers engaged in a firefight in Afghanistan, as Montreal soldiers describe the life-and-death risks of mentoring Afghan forces.
via itnnews Britain’s top civil servant, Sir Gus O’Donnell, says Tony Blair was “reluctant” to hold Cabinet talks about the invasion of Iraq.
via NATOCOMMUNITY NATO and Russia cooperate on the training of Central Asian law enforcement officers at a Moscow training centre, fighting the movement of Afghan opium.
THIS WEEK ON WAR NEWS RADIO: VOICES OF INFLUENCE First, we hear about Muqtada al-Sadr’s return to Iraq. Then we talk to an author about moral panic before the US invasion of Iraq. Finally we listen stories of Iraqi refugees in Syria. All this, and the week’s news. (mp3)
It’s easy to talk about war in terms of numbers – casualties, years of conflict, or money spent. But art expresses what numbers can not. Last Fall, Amandine Lee went to the Windows and Mirrors exhibit in Philadelphia, and spoke to artists and visitors. (mp3)
via AlJazeeraEnglish It has been two years since Barack Obama took over the US presidency. In that time the war in Afghanistan has stayed at the top of his foreign policy agenda. But is his strategy of transferring power to Afghan policy and the army working? Al Jazeera’s Sue Turton went out…
President Obama declared the end of combat missions in Iraq during an Oval Office address in August, saying the the U.S. had met it’s obligation in that country. But one American soldier remains missing in action, and his family is still waiting for answers. War News Radio’s Jeremy Rapaport-Stein spoke…
via NATOCOMMUNITY No strangers to conflict, a small contingent of Bosnians have deployed to Helmand province to assist their Danish colleagues in Gereshk.
War News Radio’s Aaron Moser talks about the latest wave of bombings in Iraq with John Leland of the New York Times in Baghdad. (mp3)