"Posts worth reading"

BruceR.'s list of some of his pieces at Flit:

In response to a request, here's some posts on this blog since I returned I think sum up some of my recent thinking on Afghanistan:

First thoughts
Indigenous armies as firebreaks
Lawrence of Arabia, girl's basketball, and Afghanistan
Of giant alien vending machines, and a really amazing quantity of weed
On the limited power of positive thinking
On the Kandahar terrain, and the closing of a strongpoint
On the real reason there's no ANA with the Marines in Helmand
On the limits of hope
On that Afghan winter thing
On ANA driver training
On preconditions for military action
First thoughts on the Kunduz strike
On Malevich's basterds
On the history of ANA mentoring
On the McChrystal plan
On the Kagans, and what partnering really means
On ANA illiteracy
Seven reasons why Afghan army building is slow
What I really think

More if I think of them.