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WelcomeHomeBlog.com – Military homecoming videos, pictures & stories! Tim had been deployed in Afghanistan, but came home to surprise his family and friends. His wife recently gave birth and he was there via Skype, but he hadn’t held his son yet. Tim’s other son had a birthday party allowing for surprise after surprise as family [...]

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Australian Commando Regiment 2 CDO raid a Taliban compound and engage the enemy 3 meters away. SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR DAILY COMBAT FOOTAGE HERE – www.youtube.com PLEASE CLICK LIKE TO KEEP THIS CHANNEL GROWING! *DISCLAIMER* This footage is to be taken as a documentary on the events of the war in Afghanistan and should be viewed [...]

In an article for National Review Online, Patrick Brennan illuminates the thinking of General David McKiernan, commander of ISAF in Afghanistan from 2008 to 2009. To the extent that Brennan accurately reflects McKiernan’s thinking and, more importantly, that McKiernan is at all representative of widely-held views in the U.S. military,  it goes a long way [...]

From The Washington Times: Afghanistan’s harsh and isolated Korengal Valley two years ago this month served as the setting for an unlikely U.S. military maneuver — a retreat. The Army evacuated a network of hilltop platoon outposts, left them to the Taliban and started a war strategy devised by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top [...]

We continue our discussion with veteran Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, whose new book details clandestine talks between the U.S. and the Taliban, the Obama administration’s expanded use of drones and the accompanying rise in civilian deaths, and how more "physical harm is now coming to journalists" who are detained by Pakistan’s intelligence agency. Rashid’s latest [...]

From MSNBC: In an unusual move, around 200 U.S. Marines were asked to leave their weapons outside the tent where U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was set to speak during his trip to Afghanistan on Wednesday. Although the military said the order was not given in response to the Sunday’s shooting of 16 Afghan civilians [...]

From NYT: For the past few months, possibly the most intriguing poker game in Kabul has been taking place in the sprawling pink sitting room of the man at the center of one of the most public corruption scandals in the world, the near collapse of Kabul Bank. The players include people tied to President [...]

In the Armed Forces Journal, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis drops a bombshell on the community. I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course [...]