Afghan War Blog

VSO, Gant, Water, Crops, and COIN. One writer, Doyle Quiggle, manages to combine a variety of topics (although related) into an essay on ...

From 2010 to 2013 the special operations forces in Afghanistan dedicated a significant part of their manpower and resources to the Villag...

The concept of Village Stability Operations or VSO has been around for a year or two. VSO is a very successful program run by the Special Op...

The Afghan Local Police or ALP program in Afghanistan may expand in the future. The U.S. military is looking for additional funding that wi...

The Afghan Hands program has proven itself to be one of the most successful endeavors in Afghanistan. Selected members of the U.S. military...

In 2010 1st Battalion 16th Infantry was assigned the mission of deploying to Afghanistan to augment the Combined Joint Special Operations Ta...

The Small Wars Journal has posted a detailed paper about the Village Stability Operations (VSO) and Afghan Local Police (ALP) programs th...

In a reaction to the Panjwai massacre President Karzai wants all NATO troops to withdraw from Afghan villages to large bases. He has stated...

Carmen Gentile has wrote a piece about the Village Stability Operations program in Afghanistan . In this program, called VSO for short, spec...

One of the unfortunate (among many) effects of the Panjwai massacre is the high-lighting of the Village Stability Operations or VSO program...

The Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, stated on Wednesday (February 1, 2012) that the U.S. forces will move from a combat role to an ...