Afghan War Blog

A breakaway Taliban faction is being helped by the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS). The NDS is Afghanistan's version...

Photo by Resolute Support Headquarters At one time in Afghanistan - when there were over 800 large bases and small outposts spread acro...

MARSOC - Ten Years.  MARSOC is celebrating its ten year anniversary. Read an article about the Marine Special Operations Command in  ...

Paper on Network Analysis Techniques in Future Environments. The U.S. Army's recently published National Military Strategy (NMS) - Ju...

Intel Reports on Bombing ISIS.  New intelligence reports indicate that despite one full year of bombing the Islamic State fighters in Iraq...

The Defense Clandestine Service is still building up according to Michael Vickers (a former head intel guy). Vickers, until recently the un...

One of the best success stories to come out of the many training endeavors in Afghanistan is the result of a United Kingdom firm - New C...

Intelligence reformers pushed Congress for years to establish a centralized director for intelligence that would link all the various inte...

Headquarters, Department of the Army has released Police Intelligence Operations , ATP 3-39.20, April 2015. This manual could be valuable to...

The U.S. Army was not ideally trained at the company level for the conduct of a counterinsurgency in the beginning years of the Afghan con...

The Army's  Distributed Common Ground System  (DCGS) continues to attract the attention of members of Congress. DCGS has a long history ...

One of the biggest problems confronting Intelligence Advisors of Security Force Assistance Advisory Teams (SFAATs) working in Afghanistan ...

German lawmakers called for an investigation into reports that German military and intelligence agencies contributed to a NATO list of Tal...

Shuja Nawaz , a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center, writes an opinion about the CIA and the help it provid...

The U.S. Army's Distributed Common Ground System - Army (DCGS-A) is a failed intelligence system that is slowly coming around as a res...

The head of the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) says that with the departure of Coalition forces there is now a vacuum in the ...

Retired LTG Michael Flynn , former director of the U.S. Defense Department Intelligence Agency, speaks about intelligence gathering in Afgh...

The former head of the Pakistan Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) , General Hamid Gul, has stated that the Taliban-led insurgency will contin...

A recent news article provides some insight into the covert operations that the Afghans are running into Pakistan. Of course, it may not b...

The U.S. Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoDIG) conducted an assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of the DoD...