It’s hard to see how the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan can keep his job, given his admitted “poor judgment” in publicly airing his misgivings about his dealings with President Obama and members of his administration, while fostering a command climate in which his “profane, irreverent aides” as the Washington Post described them, mocked Vice President Joe Biden.

Here’s what the president said last night: “We will fight this … with everything we’ve got for as long as it takes.” That’s a lot different from the stated strategy for Afghanistan which is more like: “We will fight this with as much as we can spare, for a least another year.”

A U.S. military investigation delivered a scathingly critical assessment: showing not only how screw-ups can get innocent people killed, but also how the U.S. military really does take seriously the investigation of unintended civilian casualties. It does not simply write off the deaths of women, children, and other non-combatants as “collateral damage” –a term that has increasingly taken on an unwarranted pejorative tone, implying that U.S. forces are uncaring and unfeeling about the loss of innocent life.

The more I hear about how much progress is being made in Afghanistan, the more concerned I become about the long-term prospects for success. So I’m looking forward to getting some firsthand insights from my partners at military​.com, who are heading to Afghanistan for a clear-eyed assessment of what’s really happening.

Maj. Gen. David Hogg answers this question live from Afghanistan at the 5th annual milblog conference, sponsored by Military​.com

President Barack Obama’s six-hour foray into Kabul — arriving at dusk and leaving before dawn — makes one wonder if he’s still in the dark about Afghanistan.

But what Yemen underscores is that al Qaida no longer needs Afghanistan as a base of operations. It can, and does, operate from any number of countries. In this Internet age, it can be anywhere. So the massive investment in rebuilding Afghanistan provide only the same false sense of security and accomplishment, as did the Maginot line after WW1.

Paying off the enemy to switch sides worked in Iraq, why not Afghanistan?

Bob Woodard says the sources (more than one) who leaked him the McChrystal report had “pretty pure” motives and were not trying to “box in” President Obama. He also insists that after the initial anger some in the White House told him the publication “did them a favor.” And that the scoop was in some respects as significant as the landmark Pentagon Papers case in 1971.

A compilation of three clips showing a UH60 Black Hawk landing on a mountaintop in Zabul, Afghanistan, to insert coalition ground forces Nov. 6. Lt. Col. Carey Wagen and co-pilot Chief Warrant Officer Jesse Ashhurst, both members of 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, or Task Force Pegasus.