The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) - Painting It White

The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) / Paint It Pink: The US redefining ANA success: "In the DoD’s reporting on the ANA, it consistently changes the standards: in what is typical of nearly every other measurable metric when it relates to progress in the 1230 reports, the DoD keeps changing how it defines success. (On this subject, also see a CCN blog here.) In addition, due to the regular change in commanders at multiple levels, ISAF is able to regularly claim that the previous report’s statements of poor progress (when they have been made) were due to some procedural or reporting issue".