Commentary on Afghanistan

Stay in Afghanistan . . . David Petraeus and Michael O'Hanlon have penned an opinion piece urging President Obama to continue an American troop presence in Afghanistan (The Washington Post, July 7, 2015).

"Forgetting Afghanistan". Dominic Tierney writes on how the 'Good War' has been forgotten by America in The Atlantic (Jun 24, 2015).

"What I Saw in Afghanistan". Barnett Rubin provides us a glimpse of the high-level politics of aid to Afghanistan, corruption, and offers insight on the future (The New Yorker, Jul 1, 2015).

"Afghanistan After the Drawdown". Two RAND Corporation writers and former advisors to U.S. SOF in Afghanistan see the future of Afghanistan as 'half full". (Lawfare, Jul 5, 2015).

The Bureaucracy of ISAF. A writer provides insight into the immense and disparate organization that was ISAF in "Organizational Friction and the Team of Teams Approach in Afghanistan", War on the Rocks, July 3, 2015.