Afghan War Blog

The two-year anniversary of the formation of the National Unity Government (NUG) is approaching and many of the expected actions (politic...

India & China: Key Partners.  Raffaello Pantucci writes on the importance of India and China in developing stability for Afghanistan...

RAND Corporation has published a paper entitled Task Force for Business and Stability Operations: Lessons from Afghanistan ,  2016. The TF...

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

Carl Forsling , in an article about his time spent with a battalion of the Afghan Border Police (ABP), writes about what he learned from th...

With the conclusion of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, the end of U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan, and a "responsible end to the Af...

Lt. Col. Remi Hajjar of the U.S. Army has published an article entitled "What Lessons Did We Learn (or Re-Learn) about Military Advisin...

Jeff Schogol, a staff writer for the Military Times,  offers us his review of the book by retired Army Lt. Gen. Daniel Bolger, entitled Why ...

A recent article in Army Magazine   by Lt. Gen James M. Dubik (U.S. Army retired) points out that while the U.S. military is tactically prof...

The author, military commentator, and RAND senior international policy analyst Linda Robinson recently addressed the annual Army USA C...

The United States spent some 13 years in Afghanistan. Units deployed to and from Afghanistan on one-year rotations. Many personnel in those ...

Two Captains who recently completed a tour of duty in Regional Command East have wrote a paper about their time on their respective Securi...

RAND Corporation has released a new report entitled Improving Strategic Competence: Lessons from 13 Years of War .  The report was release...

The news programs, print media and Internet is just bursting with analysis and recommendations about how to "degrade, defeat, and destr...

An instructor at the Peace Support Operations Training Centre (PSOTC) in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina provides us with an essay that str...

Jason Fritz, a senior editor at War on the Rocks blog has published online an article about the difference between "lessons observed...