I’ve posted my notions inre Afghanistan at the Club…

The more things evolve, the impracticality of prior strategy is exposed.

LOTM…

I find it most interesting that Holbrooke is bringing India into the Afghani calculus… which is so much of my own thinking.

Again, we need a route into Afghanistan that is unpopulated and unsuitable for small unit ambushes…

A treaty corridor through Baluchistan towards Kandahar that avoids fertile land is the solution.

A path at least as effective as the Burma Road would be a game changer.

I sense that Holbrooke is trying to chill the Pakistanis into accepting the inevitable: Indian mountain troops romping the Kush… putting the hurt on ISI’s shadow army.