Informal Institute for National Security Thinkers and Practitioners
Quotes of the Day:
Gen. Cornwallis after Yorktown:
"I wouldn't call this a defeat. Our mission was to punish the Americans for dumping our tea in Boston Harbor. We accomplished that so now we're leaving. We'll still maintain a robust 'over the horizon' capability to burn down the White House.”
- Mike Glenn channelling Cornwallis' ghost
If you don’t give people information, they make up something to fill the void”
- Carla O’Dell
“One of the most effective ways to learn about yourself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you”
- Edward T. Hall
1. The CIA Is Better Than the U.S. Military at Creating Foreign Armies
2. Report: Army official’s secret texts said, ‘We're f-ing abandoning Americans,' as US withdrew from Afghanistan
3. Fighting Breaks Out Between Taliban, Panjshiri Resistance After Failed Talks
4. Resistance fighters in Afghanistan say they've 'caused the Taliban heavy losses... but need help'
5. Anti-Taliban resistance fighters rely on grit, history and geography to hang onto a sliver of Afghanistan
6. Afghanistan Voice of America, Radio Free Liberty/Radio Europe Staff Left Behind
7. Americans, Afghan commandos evacuated through secret CIA base outside Kabul: report
8. From Saigon to Kabul
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