-ISI protects bin Laden while U.S. continues to send aid to Pakistan.

Whatever happened to bin Laden? CNN | Mar 3, 2010 Osama bin Laden – remember him? Where is he, and is the U.S. getting closer to killing or capturing him? Those are the questions hovering over several recent developments in the Afghanistan war: the capture of Afghan Taliban military leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar,  the [...]

-Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.

NYTimes: Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials. … The relationship between Mr. Karzai and the C.I.A. is [...]

*Obama’s missile defense rhetoric.

To some, Obama appears to be anti missile “defense” at the moment …putting new people in charge of that program in the military …out-going general seemingly confrontational. Etc. Obama says he supports missile defense, but not if “unproven”. So some interpret that as if he doesn’t support it, that’s his way of taking a soft [...]

-Pentagon ready to brief Obama immediately.

RAWSTORY: The Pentagon said it was prepared to begin briefing the president-elect’s team immediately, stressing the importance of a smooth wartime transition, as the US voted for a new president Tuesday. “If somebody were to show up here tomorrow, we would start working with them tomorrow,” said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. Changes of US [...]

-Report: Time for a New Arms Race With China.

Read the report by the ISAB Task Force on China’s Strategic Modernization (downloads PDF) Danger Room (snippet): A new report about U.S. military relations with China has just emerged from a State Department Advisory Board. And not only is it all kinds of hawkish. But the paper comes at the same time that we’re loading [...]