Report - Losing the "Forgotten War"

Anthony H. Cordesman has penned a report entitled Losing the "Forgotten War": The Need to Reshape US Strategy in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.  The report, published on October 1, 2014, is available here on the website of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). (It  is an Adobe Acrobat PDF, 76 pages long, and 3 MBs big). The report says that " . . . Afghanistan is still the forgotten war at a time when the Taliban is making steady gains, civilian casualties are rising, the Afghan economy is in crisis, and there still are no clear plans for any post-2014 aspect of transition". Aspects of the report include the developing strategic vacuum in Afghanistan and Central and South Asia; uncertainty of Afghan leadership, military failure in Afghanistan, rising tide of internal violence, real US strategic interests, and relationships with Pakistan, India, Iran, and China.