April 2010 - A.L.L. = Afghanistan Lessons Learned for Soldiers

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  • The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan

    It is not something a lot of people like to talk about or acknowledge, but it is a factual way of life in many cultures, especially Afghanistan. I have talked about it before on my main blog ( www.bouhammer.com ), why Thursday nights are so popular over there, why they are called Man-Love Thursdays and I even have talked about "Chai boys" or the young soldiers in the Afghan Army and police who become R&R tools for older, senior members. Well this Tuesday, PBS is airing a "in your...
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  • How to use this blog

    There has been (rightly) some confusion about how to use this blog and why it is organized the way that it is. In trying to keep things in a logical order, we've had to monkey with the posting dates. Blogger will automatically put the last post first, and this will cause information to be jumbled together in a way that makes it difficult to keep it organized by topic, etc. We changed the dates to trick Blogger into posting the information in the order that we want it to stay in, more like a book...

  • Afghanistan Politics

    Here is another blog post that is part of the Afghanistan Lessons Learned series. With the recent postings about Karzai's statements and the arguing back and forth between our country's government I figured it would be good to provide some background on how the Afghanistan Government works. Afghanistan’s 34 Provinces are divided into districts. The number of districts has changed with the division or merging into other districts. The 325 districts that existed prior to 1979 changed with a...

  • The Flag of Afghanistan

    The Flag of Afghanistan • Black stands for the time period of 1839-1919 when the Afghan people fought three wars of independence against the British Empire • Red represents blood, sacrifice, and the continuous challenge of the people to overcome hardship • Green is the color of Islam and symbolizes peace The writing on the flag emphasizes the importance of Islam by stating: “There is no God but God and Mohammad is his prophet” The mosque with the mihrab, is from seal of Abdur Rahman Khan, added by...
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