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All Stories published by War Is Boring on September 30, 2015

Sep 30, 2015

India Doubles Down on Crappy Homemade Jets

by JOSEPH TREVITHICK

India is buying up more troubled, domestically-produced Tejas Mark 1A fighter jet. In a neighborhood where China is cooking up numerous stealthy designs and Pakistan is buying more capable JF-17 Thunder…

Texas Did the Bare Minimum to ‘Monitor’ Jade Helm

by JOSEPH TREVITHICK

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Sep 30, 2015

How We Lost Kunduz

The Taliban’s capture of Kunduz is turning into the biggest disaster for the United States and NATO in the entire 14-year-long war for Afghanistan.

Right now, the NATO force in the northern region is too small on its own to retake the city of 300,000, while it failed to…

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Sep 30, 2015

Shia Militias Diss U.S. Air Strikes, Want American Weapons

Earlier this year, the Iraqi army defeated Islamic State in Tikrit. Optimists thought that the battle might foreshadow the rollback of Sunni militants in Iraq. But it wouldn’t have happened without Iranian-sponsored paramilitary…

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Sep 30, 2015

Russia Starts Bombing Syria, Tells Pentagon to Step Aside

September 29, 2015

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