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General: ‘Inside threat’ from Afghan troops takes courage to face

By Dan Lamothe on March 1, 2012 Afghanistan, General officers, Leadership

In next week’s Marine Corps Times, we’ll have a package of stories highlighting what’s coming this summer for Marines in Afghanistan. Much of it comes from an interview I did Friday with Maj. Gen. John Toolan, the top commander in Helmand and Nimroz provinces, where 17,000 Marines are deployed. We covered a lot of ground, some of which appeared in this breaking news story last week. Then I asked the general if there was anything else he wanted to touch on. Not surprisingly, he said he was proud of the troops under his command. But he also added a candid…

Three years of Afghan troops attacking ISAF forces

By Dan Lamothe on June 1, 2011 Afghanistan, Infantry

An email today from retired Marine 1st Sgt. John Bernard prompted me to think that it’d be a good idea to share on Battle Rattle the recent history of Afghan forces attacking the NATO troops training them. It’s an uneasy partnership that I covered in Afghanistan, and have continued to take an interest in as the attacks mount. The most recent attack occurred Monday in Uruzgan province. A member of the Afghan National Army allegedly shot an Australian military trainer three times, killing him. It’s at least the 17th time that coalition troops have been killed by Afghans in uniform…

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