Flightline II: Parting Shots
The flightline at Kandahar Airfield loses another flag as flight crews disassemble and ship out Canada's last combat helicopter from Afghanistan.
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Asia
Combat Close-Out
For all the ink, here and elsewhere, given to its Operation Attention training mission in Kabul, Canada's largest operation in Afghanistan remains the comparatively unheralded Mission Transition Task Force (MTTF).
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Flightline I: Afghan Air Power
The newly reactivated Afghan Air Force has a long way to go before it catches up with its brother and sister divisions in the country's domestic security forces.
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Scenes from a Funeral
One week to the hour after insurgents were engaged with coalition and Afghan forces in a fierce nineteen-hour siege that had Kabul and the world on edge, a suicide bomber entered the home of ex-Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani and detonated…
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Coordinated Taliban attacks test Afghan troops
A fresh spate of attacks since we entered the country on Friday have contributed to making the past thirty days among the most vicious since the Taliban regime was toppled in late 2001.
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The Paleoglobalist: The Media Blackout That Wasn’t
Little has changed in Ürümqi since riots grabbed the the international media's attention for a brief moment two years ago.
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In Full View: Japan Quake Sparks Human Behaviour
The Japanese earthquake demonstrates the extent to which our contemporary states have become irrevocably interconnected on a global scale.
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