Saturday, February 26, 2011

Rolling Stone puts another top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan in the pillory

As if it were a curse, the magazine 'Rolling Stone', which in June published an article which led to General Stanley McChrystal to resign as chief commander of international troops in Afghanistan, is once again on the cusp of a military command American in China, with the publication of other information in scandal.

In its latest issue, the magazine says that Lieutenant General William Caldwell, chief of training of Afghan security forces is, the second most important military command in Afghanistan after Gen. David Petraeus, who took the witness McChrystal - would have forced a U.S. military unit specializing in psychological warfare and intimidation tactics to intimidate and manipulate enemy psychologically to U.S.

senators and other dignitaries who visited Afghanistan in 2010 with the aim of achieving political support for the war and sending more funds. According to the U.S. Defense Department, psychological operations is to say, the use of propaganda and psychological tactics to influence emotions and behavior can only be used with "foreign hostile groups." U.S.

federal law prohibits the military use these tactics to citizens of their own country. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF) sent Thursday night to report a brief statement that the chief commander of international troops in Afghanistan, General Petraeus, will open an investigation into the facts alleged by Rolling Stone.

The magazine, however, and assumes that your information will roll head Lt. Gen. Caldwell, as entitled as follows: "Another general to be." And is that publication, it seems, has evidence to show that it denounces. Responsible for psychological operations unit was forced to use their manipulative tactics with friends and not with the enemy, Lt.

Col. Michael Holmes, and other members of the unit, have chapter and verse to review everything happened. The publication also has emails showing that Lt. Col. Holmes tried to resist to comply with the orders of his superior, and even a report that shows that Holmes's superiors tried to accuse, without foundation, inappropriate behavior, such as alcohol and having sex with a subordinate.

Enter the leaders who were psychologically manipulated include Senator John McCain's own chief of U.S. armed forces, Admiral Mike Mullen, and most members of the military affairs committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, critical in approving budgets for the war. All visited the base at Camp Eggers, located in downtown Kabul.

A possible departure of General Caldwell further complicate the war in Afghanistan, taking into account currently missing and some 750 foreign instructors to train Afghan security forces, the tactics of General Petraeus expeditious bombings, and operations Special forces are becoming less adept in Afghanistan, and this week another country, Denmark, has joined the list of countries this year to begin withdrawing their troops from Afghanistan.

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