Each of them involves a different mix of tools, including combat troops, trainers, Special Operations forces, conventional bombing, drone strikes, and the arming of surrogate forces ― but conflicts they already are.
The Qaeda affiliate's nascent resurgence has helped fuel a debate between some Pentagon officials on one side, who are seeking a way to permit small numbers of American military trainers and Special Operations forces to operate in Iraq, and some White House officials on the other, who are eager to close the final chapter on a divisive eight-year war that cost the lives of more than 4,400 troops.
O'Brien saddled five of the 12 runners in the contest and paid tribute to the winning rider, who has been an integral part of the trainer's operation for nearly two decades.
The combat role for the American-led coalition is not set to conclude until the end of 2014, and Western officials say they expect trainers and special operations to remain in Afghanistan for years afterward.
A third of all American forces left by this month, and more of the 68,000 remaining may leave next year, with the goal that only a residual force of trainers and special operations troops will remain by the end of 2014.
SABMiller, a South African brewer, has introduced 120 master trainers in its operations in India, who are in turn training peer educators.Brian Brink, the group medical consultant for Anglo American (and engineer of the free antiretrovirals policy) argues that the next challenge is to extend HIV policies beyond the confines of company staff.
U.S. trainers and Special Operations troops that remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014 will live on bases, sending "a signal to the Taliban that they cannot 'wait out' the international presence, which is supporting a fragile Afghan government".
Two of them, Bagram and Kandahar, are veritable monsters, and so offer some indication of Washington's possible plans -- evidently still in flux -- for keeping U.S. troops, trainers, advisors, special operations forces, CIA types, private security contractors, assorted allied Afghan militias, and whatnot in place once the war is officially "over" and "withdrawal" complete.
State investigators discovered evidence of serious problems in the owner's operation: trainers and other employees injecting horses with illegal drugs and administering other illicit treatments at an off-track training center.
Jill Kelley's status as an honorary consul of the Republic of Korea, or the news that she persuaded someone to let her take part in a parachute jump with special-operations trainers, is not half so interesting.
