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[Ya-ta Boy]

The Army is preparing a report on the first years of the war in Afghanistan. The NYT got a copy and has published the whole thing online: http://documents.nytimes.com/a-different-kind-of-war#p=1

James Dao, the New York Times reporter who obtained the document, lays this out very starkly in his opening grafs:"...a new unpublished Army history of the war concludes. Because the Pentagon insisted on maintaining a �small footprint� in Afghanistan and because Iraq was drawing away resources, General Barno commanded fewer than 20,000 troops [...]

�Coalition forces remained thinly spread across Afghanistan,� the historians write. �Much of the country remained vulnerable to enemy forces increasingly willing to reassert their power.�

That early and undermanned effort to employ counterinsurgency is one of several examples of how American forces, hamstrung by inadequate resources, missed opportunities to stabilize Afghanistan during the early years of the war, according to the history, �A Different Kind of War.�

All 422 pages of the report are online at the link above. It's bound to be a bombshell: the Army itself criticizing the political decisions of the war.