Coalition forces in Afghanistan are being trained to avoid civilian casualties even if that means sometimes refusing to respond to direct attacks, a senior officer said.
The careful approach is part of a broad counterinsurgency program, which U.S. commanders said has begun to yield information from a fearful population about the locations of Taliban forces and improvised explosive devices.
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Government and foreign troops are concerned ...
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This piece suffers from not putting the new US policy in context. What spurred on the change in tactics? Does the data show it has worked?
This is a highly dubious piece. It's not at all clear why the "senior officer" is unnamed, suggesting, together with the alarming paucity of content here for such an important topic, that it's just one person's opinion. More evidence that this Newspaper run by the Reverend Sun Yun Moon (i.e. the Moonies) is not to be trusted.
This is a factual article from the Times' correspondent in Afghanistan. The reporter balances the positive points with negatives, as indicated in the quotes.
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