Training the Afghan Army

Still on Afghanistan, an article by Mark Moyar on new approaches that are being used in order to train the Afghan Army. Basically, it's about assigning a large number of Nato troops to partner with the Afghans. The key issue is leadership at the mid level: 10 well trained soldiers are better than 100 corrupt ones.

Holbrooke at the CFR

The Council on Foreign Relations interviewed Richard Holbrooke
Video of the interview here
Mainly focused on the civilian side of the Af-Pak issues. Underlines the changes that have occured with the new US administration.

An interesting article you might want to check is this one on Foreign Policy. It describes a training facility in the US for civilians who are to be sent to Afghanistan