Reuters - LTC John Nagl comments on the situation in Afghanistan.

New York Times Magazine - The counterinsurgency in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley is one day after another of difficult decisions and bloody consequences. Hearts and minds are hardening.

New York Times - Defense Secretary Robert Gates is the anti-Rumsfeld: cautious, courteous and conciliatory. But will that be enough to bring Washington together on Iraq and Iran?

Air Force - Once again, as in 1938, the bombers show they can find ships at sea.

Army Times - Sean Naylor writes that the American Enterprise Institute, the think tank that came up with the “surge” strategy for Iraq, has just completed a re-evaluation of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan and concluded that another surge of U.S. forces is required, this time into southern Afghanistan.