From Foreign Policy:  On Friday, the White House parted ways with a very publicly unhappy national security advisor and many blamed his hasty pre-election exit on the account in journalist Bob Woodward's new book, Obama's Wars.

Just when it seemed that things could not get worse, they do. One would have thought that given the ongoing catastrophic floods, conditions in Pakistan were at a nadir. But last week, several incidents lowered even that bar regarding U.S.-Pakistani ties.

From Jackson Diehl, the Washington Post:  One of the most remarkable aspects of Bob Woodward's new book, "Obama's Wars," is its portrait of a White House that has all but resigned itself to failure in Afghanistan.

Bob Woodward's latest insider book, Obama's Wars, reveals that the White House team has outsized egos, sharp disagreements over policy, petty bickering, and bureaucratic infighting.   It also tells us some things we didn't know.

From Peter Baker, the New York Times:  The book, “Obama’s Wars,” by the journalist Bob Woodward, depicts an administration deeply torn over the war in Afghanistan even as the president agreed to triple troop levels there amid suspicion that he was being boxed in by the military.

A January 2008 Atlantic Council report began, "Make no mistake, the international community is not winning in Afghanistan." General Jim Jones, who was chairman of both the Council and that report, tells WaPo's Bob Woodward that, "We are doing the same things well and the same things poorly."