NYT: Oct. 22, 2017 A Newly Assertive C.I.A. Expands Its Taliban Hunt in Afghanistan ( https://goodtimesweb.org/covert-operations/2019/nyt-cia-taliban-hunt-afghanistan-oct-22-2017.html )
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eric Schmitt and Adam Goldman WASHINGTON -- The C.I.A. is expanding its covert operations in Afghanistan, sending small teams of highly experienced officers and contractors alongside Afghan forces to hunt and kill Taliban militants across the country, according to two senior American officials, the latest sign of the agency's increasingly integral role in President Trump's counterterrorism strategy. ... *The expansion reflects the C.I.A.'s assertive role under its new director, Mike Pompeo* , [1] to combat insurgents around the world. The agency is already poised to broaden its program of covert drone strikes [2] into Afghanistan; it had largely been centered on the tribal regions of Pakistan, with occasional strikes in Syria and Yemen. "We can't perform our mission if we're not aggressive," Mr. Pompeo said at a security conference this month at the University of Texas. "This is unforgiving, relentless. You pick the word. Every minute, we have to be focused on crushing our enemies." See also Armed governance: the case of the CIA-supported Afghan militias ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09592318.2020.1777618 ) , Antonio De Lauri & Astri Suhrke -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39521): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39521 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116504988/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
