Since when is this an "Insider Attack?"
Since, Hagel took control as Secretary?
I thought the attacks on NATO troops, including Americans, was called a Green - on - Blue attack.
According to the Pentagon's December 2012 (click here) Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan, "green on blue" attacks -- incidents in which members of the Afghan security forces attack NATO coalition soldiers -- "increased sharply" last year. At least 52 coalition soldiers died as a result of at least 37 green-on-blue attacks in 2012. A recently declassified set of slides produced by U.S. Central Command, published below and made public here for the first time, illustrates some of the steps that the U.S. military has taken to defeat "insider threats" -- and why "green on blues" are so difficult to prevent....
Secretary Hagel needs to review the information in the 2012 report for greater protections for our troops. I don't think the USA was counting on Karzai taking on Chinese citizenship.
March 11, 2013
...Monday's violence (click here) came as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel left Afghanistan following a first visit that was marred by a contentious speech by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a series of security threats that forced the cancellation of a scheduled news conference with the president Sunday....
Insider attack could be a better verbiage, but, the dual identity provides for confusion and wedge issues politically.
Either it is an 'insider attack' different from a Green-on-Blue attack or it isn't.
Since, Hagel took control as Secretary?
I thought the attacks on NATO troops, including Americans, was called a Green - on - Blue attack.
BY NATE JONES
JANUARY 3, 2013
According to the Pentagon's December 2012 (click here) Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan, "green on blue" attacks -- incidents in which members of the Afghan security forces attack NATO coalition soldiers -- "increased sharply" last year. At least 52 coalition soldiers died as a result of at least 37 green-on-blue attacks in 2012. A recently declassified set of slides produced by U.S. Central Command, published below and made public here for the first time, illustrates some of the steps that the U.S. military has taken to defeat "insider threats" -- and why "green on blues" are so difficult to prevent....
Secretary Hagel needs to review the information in the 2012 report for greater protections for our troops. I don't think the USA was counting on Karzai taking on Chinese citizenship.
March 11, 2013
...Monday's violence (click here) came as U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel left Afghanistan following a first visit that was marred by a contentious speech by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a series of security threats that forced the cancellation of a scheduled news conference with the president Sunday....
Insider attack could be a better verbiage, but, the dual identity provides for confusion and wedge issues politically.
Either it is an 'insider attack' different from a Green-on-Blue attack or it isn't.
