Free Range International

Just in time to put a damper on your holiday spending comes this helpful article from the White House I mean McClatchy news service designed to prepare Americans for the impending raid on our hard earned money.   Questions arise over how to pay for Afghanistan war is the name of the article and as [...]

More interesting news is coming out of Kabul as the drive-by media continues its impressive efforts at covering for or trying to explain our Commander in Chief’s continuing dithering on what to do about Afghanistan.   His ham-fisted attempt at moving President Karzai out of the way has ended in abject failure straining relations with [...]

I have been on the road for the past fortnight sorting things out for a prolonged leave back in the U.S.   In this post our good friend Chim Chim gets a load off his chest about the military and our various intelligence agencies.   Chim Chim knows what he is talking about having embedded [...]

While enjoying a morning cup of coffee and checking email up on the Baba Deck with a group of friends who are in from the States we saw what was clearly the signature of a tanker attack just up the road.   That has never happened this close to Jalalabad before so we conducted a [...]

The last post generated quite a few interesting comments about the Steven Pressfield Blog, Chief Ajmal Khan Zazai, and the prospect of using specialized troops to embed with the tribes and possible be used for cross border sanctuary denial work. With the election now decided this is an excellent time to talk about the tribes [...]

The best way to view the current state of play in Afghanistan is to start at the top of food chain and work down to what is important.   The presidential election remains undecided and now Abdullah Abdullah has pulled out of the run-off election.   Our Secretary of State says that means nothing.   [...]