Afghan War Blog

1st SFAB HQs company after uncasing colors ceremony at Advisor Platform Lightning. (photo by Maj Matthew Fontaine, 1st SFAB, Mar 18, 201...

Advisors using translation kits (photo by Afghan GMIC July 13, 2017) Reporting on the 'Train, Advise, and Assist' Mission.  ...

207th Corps - Afghan National Army Reporting on the 'Train, Advise, and Assist' Mission.  The renewed emphasis and modest i...

The JCISFA Quarterly is now posted online. This February 2018 issue by the Joint Center for International Security Force Assistance ...

Members of the TAAC-West Police Advisor Team (PAT) train female police in Herat province. (photo by RS HQs, 10 July 2017). Reporting o...

A U.S. medical advisors discusses medical evacuation procedures with Afghan counterpart in OCC-R South (RS photo) Reporting on the ...

An Intel Advisor Mentoring ANDSF Reporting on the 'Train, Advise, and Assist' Mission.  The renewed emphasis and modest increas...

A Marine advisor with Task Force Southwest (TFSW) battle tracks with a soldier from the 215th Corps at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan. (p...

The Annotated Bibliography for Resolute Support has been updated and posted. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) missio...

Photo: ANA Soldiers from the 215th Corps conduct CASEVAC training at the Helmand Regional Military Training Center (RMTC) on Camp Shorab...

Members of 1st SFAB conducting a meeting with 'Afghan counterparts' during advisor training at Fort Benning, Georgia. (Photo fro...

Marine Advisors at Kandak Level. The U.S. Marines in Task Force Southwest are pushing their advisors down to brigade and kandak level....

Soldiers of 1st SFAB fire 9 mm pistols during training (photo credit below) In 2012 the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)...

The Blue Areas are where TAACs are Located Expeditionary Advising the 215th ANA Corps - Not so Much! A couple of years ago the United...

Reasons Not to Use Local Proxies.  Joshua Foust argues against the use of local proxies by the United States in advancing U.S. national ...

The Pentagon's foreign military aid budget will rise for yet another year with the Senate's vote on the new version of the Nationa...

RAND Paper on Security Cooperation. Christopher Paul (of RAND) has published a transcript entitled What Works Best When Conducting Sec...

Training the ANA - Not so Much.  A recent visitor to Afghanistan provides us his views on how well the training program in Afghanistan ...

The Army has released an updated version of Army Techniques Publication (ATP) 3-05.2, Foreign Internal Defense , August 2015. This version s...

James F. Jeffrey explains in the March/April 2015 issue of  Foreign Policy   "Why Counterinsurgency Doesn't Work" . He says ...