E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet In that context, the most important decision made by U.S. commanders so far, as described last week in the Times, is not to insist upon the removal of President Hamid Karzai's half-brother, Ahmed Wali Karzai, known to Afghan watchers as "A.W.K.," as head of the Kandahar Provincial Council.
Moreover, PMU leaders and military commanders have so far shown little interest in taking that path.
In such a crucial fight for supposed AQAP militants, a top commander moving so far away from the battle lines would seem preposterous.
"We think weapons supplies are imminent," one FSA commander said, "but so far nothing has come through".
While the colonel is thought to be delusional, he and his commanders have proved capable so far of using their forces with some care, Mr. Joshi said.
9 P.M. (7) COMMANDER IN CHIEF -- So far, the administration of President Mackenzie Allen Geena Daviss) is an unlikely blend of the critical and the ridiculous.
An expert politician, Farnese succeeded, however, in keeping himself in the Netherlands as commander and regent, going so far as to enter into conflict with his mother, whom the king had initially appointed to the position in order to attain his purpose.
He made an entirely defensible military choice, clearly with the endorsement of his main commanders, and (again the mantra, so far) it has worked.
If our political system can't bring itself to choose one alternative or the other -- and so far the commander in chief refuses even to admit that we have a problem -- we will eventually face a nasty financial crisis.
A senior Afghan commander, Gen. Sher Mohammed Zazai, said that so far, there had been no deaths of Afghan troops, who make up the bulk of the combined force.
"The Taliban's operational directive at the start of the fighting season was to press the Afghan security forces and try to break their will," said Col. David Lapan, a spokesman for the American military commander, Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. "It's so far been our assessment they have not succeeded in any of their stated goals".
