The Meaning of Marjah
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010from STRATFOR.COM
by Kamran Bokhari, Peter Zeihan and Nathan Hughes
“This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR“
On Feb. 13, some 6,000 U.S. Marines, soldiers and Afghan National Army (ANA) troops launched a sustained assault on the town of Marjah in Helmand province. Until this latest offensive, the U.S. and NATO effort in Afghanistan had been constrained [...]