Afghan War Blog

Preserving COIN as a Capability.  As the military moves away from the Iraq and Afghan conflicts (although the move is slower than we thoug...

The Afghan Air Force (AAF) is sending out small medical teams to teach MEDEVAC procedures to medics of the Afghan National Army (ANA). ...

A news article describes the C-17 Globemastter III that is a 'flying hospital'. It is used for MEDEVACs from the war zone to a hospi...

A "SEAL Breacher Study" will explore the way that Navy SEAL brains are affected by repeated blasts. Two researchers will conduct t...

The Afghanistan Country Office of the United Nations Population Fund has published a report entitled State of Afghanistan's Midwifery 20...

The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) has published an online article entitled "Between Rhetoric and Reality: Access to health care a...

A recent news article about Mefloquine (Lariam) calls into question the medication used to fight malarial. According to UK studies Soldiers...

Japan and the World Health Organization (WHO) are engaging in a partnership to combat tuberculosis (TB) in Afghanistan. The agreement provi...

A new medical study has determined that Iraq and Afghan war veterans from the Army had the highest rate of chronic insomnia among the armed...

Starting in mid-2013 and going into 2014 ISAF started to refuse to fly almost all requests for MEDEVACs from the Afghan National Security...

The land of Afghanistan is scattered with mines from past conflicts - although many have been policed up there are still thousands lying ben...

A recent news article states that Australian veterans of the Afghan conflict have yet to show the effects of PTSD and that the " . . ...

Reports of over 40 cases of Anthrax have surfaced in Badakhshan province. Anthrax is a disease affecting both humans and animals. Read more ...

A team of medical professionals in Washington spent six months reviewing the autopsies of thousands of casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan ...

The humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has published a report on Afghanistan entitled "Between Rhetoric and Rea...

According to a recently published medical report by the Institute of Medicine a large proportion of veterans who served in Afghanistan and ...

For most of Operation Enduring Freedom casualties were treated with morphine and fentanyl to ease pain. However, in the past few years a new...

A recent study provides evidence that there is a tie between a military members mental health and the amount of exposure to combat. As the ...

Members of the NATO Role 3 Combat Hospital at Kandahar Airfield recently provided advanced medical trainin g to staff of the Kandahar Region...

The growth of medical services and clinics in Afghanistan has made remarkable strides in the decrease of child deaths. In 2001 one in four c...