Afghan War Blog

A news article explains the complexities of the Afghanistan mission and ultimate endgame. During his 2012 re-election campaign President Ob...

In a recent interview (Friday, March 23, 2012) with Public Broadcast System's Charlie Rose program - General Allen, the ISAF Commander, ...

Juan Williams, a Fox News commentator, has published an opinion piece about General John Allen's recent testimony before Congress. Willi...

President Obama, in years past, has described Afghanistan as a 'war of necessity' - which, he was quick to point out, the Iraq War w...

The plan for the US withdrawal is slowly taking shape. The goal is for the US and NATO to turn over all security responsilities to the Afgha...

One noted observer of the Afghan War, Stephen Biddle - a Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, believes tha...

Over the past month - since the Koran burnings , shootings of NATO troops by Afghan security personnel, and the Panjwai massacre - there ha...

The print media and Internet is full of commentators writing opinion pieces about whether we should stay in Afghanistan, keep our current st...

While many commentators have been stating that our mission in Afghanistan has failed and it is time to bring the troops home - other comment...

David Ignatius, an opinion writer, has commented on the reaction to the Panjwai massacre by a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant and the current Afgh...

Things are going to get tougher for the Special Operations Forces (SOF) that will inherit the mess that is now Afghanistan in 2014. The rec...

An editorial looks at what we have accomplished in Afghanistan and what the future will likely bring us. It's conclusion is that the rig...

Many leading officials in government, the military, and in Congress are conducting a reassessment of what we have accomplished in ten years ...

The recent events of the Quran burning and killing spree in Panjwai have caused many observers to comment on the current strategy we have fo...

Many have commented on the new shift in strategy in Afghanistan - pulling out conventional troops and relying more on special forces units t...

The chief correspondent of The Sydney Morning Herald has wrote an opinion piece on the war in Afghanistan.  Although he recognizes that the...

Louis Arbor - a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - is currently ...

With the end of the year approaching many are grading the US involvement in Afghanistan in terms of progress made.  See "For Obama, A M...

The New World Strategies Coalition, Inc. offers 24 non-military solutions for the Afghan War.  Some interesting reading.  The coaliton is a...

It appears there is a shift in the strategic communications about U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan.  The withdrawal date of summer 20...