{"id":292578,"date":"2010-02-08T09:44:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76027"},"modified":"2010-02-08T09:44:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:44:21","slug":"mcchrystal-wants-unified-civilian-military-effort-in-new-helmand-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/292578","title":{"rendered":"McChrystal Wants Unified Civilian-Military Effort in New Helmand Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With U.S. and Afghan forces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-afghan-army7-2010feb07,0,7967956.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+latimes\/news\/nationworld\/world+(L.A.+Times+-+World+News)\">about to attempt to take the Afghan village of Marja in Helmand province away from the Taliban<\/a>, Gen. Stanley McChrystal records this message about how &#8212; speaking mostly generically &#8212; he wants to show the Afghan people that the Afghan government is about to come into the area and offer them a better alternative. That requires a fully integrated civilian\/military effort, he says:<span id=\"more-76027\"><\/span><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JaAV_Lg7Pno&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JaAV_Lg7Pno&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nThe Marine campaign in Helmand, waged for much of last year, has been of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.registan.net\/index.php\/2010\/02\/04\/ill-have-what-hes-smoking\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+registan+(Registan.net)\">questionable significance for a broader counterinsurgency strategy of population protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With U.S. and Afghan forces about to attempt to take the Afghan village of Marja in Helmand province away from the Taliban, Gen. Stanley McChrystal records this message about how &#8212; speaking mostly generically &#8212; he wants to show the Afghan people that the Afghan government is about to come into the area and offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}