Afghan War Blog

Video - Progress on Peace and Stability in Afghanistan.  The United States Institute for Peace (USIP) held a panel discussion with A...

Book Review - Blindsided by the Taliban.  Steve Leonard, a former senior military strategist and now a writer on national security, ...

Conversation on Afghanistan and Counterterrorism.   General (ret) Stan McChrystal and former Secretary of State John Kerry discuss A...

Tobias Marschall reviews a new book entitled "Wakhan Quadrangle: Exploration and Espionage During and After the Great Game"...

Panel Discussion.  On Monday, October 3, 2016 the Brookings Institution will host a panel of 'experts' on Afghanistan who will d...

Video - Mercy Corps. Learn how Mercy Corps provides economic opportunity for Afghan women in this short 5-min long video.  www.youtub...

U.S. Defense Spending Woes.  A recent news story by Matthew Gault examines the national defense stance of the presidential candidates ...

Video - ISIS and Money.  Watch a four-minute long video explaining how the Islamic State funds itself and how government and private-secto...

Afghan Nation-Building A Bust. Doug Bandow thinks its time for a departure from Afghanistan. "Afghanistan is a bust. The Taliban i...

Afghan Intelligence Chief Resigns. The chief of the Afghan spy agency - National Directorate of Security or NDS - has resigned amid polic...

CT - Rhetoric vs. Reality. Anthony H. Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), provides us his thoughts...

New Book on Lessons Learned. Richard D. Hooker, Jr. and Joseph J. Collins have edited a book entitled Lessons Encountered: Learning From ...

James Rosen on "The Foxhole" of Fox News  interviews Michael G. Waltz - a Special Forces officer with multiple tours in Afghani...

A new book about Afghanistan has been published. The Arabs at War in Afghanistan is about the history of the jihadist movement in Afghani...

Military Times  has provided short book reviews of some novels and nonfiction about the war in Afghanistan as well as some books on life i...

Rajiv Chandrasekaran and Howard Schultz have penned a book entitled For Love of Country . Chandrasekaran is a reporter and editor for The Wa...

George Vlachonikolis reviews a newly published book entitled "Code Black " by Mark Evans. It is the story of a British Army Office...

Sarah Chayes, a true-life subject matter expert (SME) on Afghanistan, has written a book entitled Thieves of State. The book is about corr...

Retired CIA operative Robert L. Grenier has wrote a book entitled 88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary . Alissa J. Rubin provides us a book re...

A new book is coming out about Afghanistan . It is a work of fiction that takes place on a small outpost in the Korengal Valley in Kunar p...