Don't Fear the Reaper (Unless You're in Waziristan)

These charts on US air strikes in Pakistan, courtesy of The Long War Journal, really show you where the action is happening in our remote-control air campaign against al Qaeda and the several Taliban factions in Pakistan. Of the 144 strikes conducted since 2004, 62% have hit targets in North Waziristan, and 32% have hit targets in South Waziristan.

The rest of Pakistan is almost entirely uninvolved. We should just call it the Waziristan War.

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Af/Pak: They Don't Call It "The Long War" For Nothing

We seem to have had a tactical success in Waziristan yesterday, but let's not forget that one of our coalition partners was conducting punitive actions in those same hills more than 100 years ago to no lasting effect. The firepower gets better over time, but does anything else change?