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A guest post from Double X writer Vanessa M. Gezari:
The announcement that Gen. David McKiernan is being removed from command of NATO forces in Afghanistan—apparently the first firing of a U.S. commander in a theater of war since Korea—is
a very big deal. But what does it actually mean? One thing it means is
that the dust has yet to settle in the transition to a new U.S.
strategy in Afghanistan, which suggests that any fruits of that
strategy remain distant. Laid out in a white paper this spring,
the new strategy stems from a wholesale rethinking of our approach that
has been underway at least since Gen. David Petraeus took the helm at
CentCom last fall. It includes, but isn’t limited to... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)