&host=www.rt.com&uri=/news/blogs/friendly-fire/&via=1.1 199.93.58.135:80 (Footprint 4.8/FPMCP)&ua=CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html))
Friendly Fire
Evgeny Khrushchev
Colonel Evgeny Khrushchev, navy brat & army lifer, is the military analyst at RT.
Contrary to the family tradition, he didn’t apply to Vladivostok Navy Academy to join the Pacific Fleet but enrolled in the Red Banner Institute special faculty Persian Team.
The dream to become a military attaché in Tehran has yet to materialize – the first foreign mission started in Afghanistan as a psyops officer of the 56th Airborne Assault Brigade in Gardez, Paktia, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the last one was as the First Secretary of the Russian Embassy in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
Other tours of duty:
21 May, 2012, 19:21
NATO vulture culture: Aliens in the windy city
The Russian Aurora has discharged a preemptive salvo against the Atlantic freedom vultures in America, which have camped out at sweet home Chicago. No, it wasn’t another Bolshevik mutiny on the legendary cruiser in St. Petersburg; it was an audacious Russian think-tank, the Institute for Foreign Policy Research & Initiatives, www.invissin.ru that boarded the ritzy Marriott Aurora in Moscow to...
24 January, 2012, 23:06
US foreign policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Washington's policy of “managed chaos” has backfired in Afghanistan and Pakistan. RT’s military contributor Colonel Eugene Khrushchev says the US excelled at chaos building but has yet to succeed at managing it. The sleep of reason brings forth monsters El sueño de la razon produce monstruos Francisco José de Goya Afghanistan is in dire straits due to the United Kingdom’s ‘divide & rule’...
19 February, 2011, 10:52
Smart power sophistry
US foreign policy mavens have plucked from obscurity and put a new spin on the Smart Power concept as the cornerstone of the US National Security Strategy. In theory and on paper, this paradigm shift is picture perfect. In practice, if seeing is believing, don’t be surprised if the much touted Smart Power turns out to be Smarting from Power. The whole idea is not just attractive – it’s simply...
6 November, 2010, 10:29
The lord of the drugs
With great gusto Karzai used to ‘play US like a fiddle’. Unabashed, he’ll continue to treat Uncle Sam as a sugar daddy – until the White House has the guts to face this worst kept secret fairly & squarely. US Administration should face the music now and do it fast; between the midterm-election stupendous shellacking and pending AfPak strategy review come December – if it wants to avoid another...
2 October, 2010, 12:35
Peter Dolan’s interview with Col. Evgeny Khrushchev on US policy in Afghanistan
Peter Dolan of Veteran’s Today recently held an interview with RT’s own military contributor, Col. Evgeny Khrushchev, concerning the United States’ activities in Afghanistan. RT reprints the interview in full. Veteran’s Today: In a 2001 BBC interview, just after 9/11, you stated that to be effective in Afghanistan, America’s military must exclusively use Special...
29 August, 2010, 13:40
UNAMA HR devil’s advocate: part two. Afghan WMD collateral damage
The Methodology section offers contradicting disclaimers that effectively negate the veracity of the 2010 mid-year report: • “The non-combatant status of the reported victims…cannot be conclusively established or is disputed” • “UNAMA HR …does not presume fighting-age males are civilians” • “UNAMA HR is under-reporting civilian...
23 August, 2010, 11:19
UNAMA devil’s advocate: part one
UNAMA HR’s 2010 mid-year Report, “Protection of civilians in armed conflict” is an important milestone of the UN’s lofty endeavor in Afghanistan. Also, it’s deeply disturbing – due to what is claims, and what it doesn’t. Devil’s advocate review questions UNAMA HR Report’s vision & veracity and offers specific recommendations to make it...
26 July, 2010, 09:01
The aftermath of Afghanfest
The latest international conference in Kabul didn’t have any suspense or surprise, but it came up with different outcomes for different stakeholders in Afghanistan. The cold snow job in the simmering summer For the international community represented by the UN as a whole, and by NATO-led ISAF in particular, the conference was just a traditional feel-good TV matinee, highlighted by a...
14 June, 2010, 09:21
Afghan drug deep divide
Moscow International Forum “Drug Production in Afghanistan: A Challenge to the International Community” has been the latest public litmus test to check the validity & veracity of various approaches advocated by the main stakeholders in the Afghan Opium War. To put the diplomatic niceties aside, it was a tacit showdown between the Russian counter-narcotics strategy & American...
18 May, 2010, 09:02
The histrionics of US drug-controlled policy
From plight to blight The US has launched a surreptitious germ warfare against the hard-working drug-farmers – or so claimed the narco-jihadist propaganda when a “mysterious” blight had suddenly struck the “good” part of the opium poppy fields on the eve of the harvest. A shot in the foot It doesn’t matter whether it was true or false – the claim opened up a unique opportunity for USACAPOC(A),...
