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...

Preparing for the Future: First Afghans Graduate NATO Course,   Resolute Support, February 20, 2018. Members of the ANDSF graduate from ...

Camp Commando, Afghanistan.  A Slovakian Special Forces soldier talks about his job training Afghan SOF in Afghanistan. (2-min, Resolute...

Afghan Police Women Driving School,  Resolute Support, YouTube.com, February 6, 2018. An Afghan policewoman talks about attending a driv...

Operation Afghanistan: The Role of JBER's Spartan Brigade,   KTUU 2, February 1, 2018. A 4-minute long video that explains the role ...

Afghan Air Force A-29 Take-off and Landing ,  DVIDS, December 4, 2017, (3 mins). www.dvidshub.net/video/570408/afghan-air-force-29 Ai...

Mentoring at the Afghan Officers Academy ,  Resolute Support YouTube.com, November 24, 2017. A British Army officer describes his job A...

First Afghan Black Hawk Pilots soon to Graduate,   Resolute Support Hqs, posted on YouTube.com, on November 16, 2017. (2-min video expl...

"A Game Changer". In this 30-second video posted by Resolute Support on their YouTube.com account General Nicholson, the com...

"The Breadwinner".  US movie star Angelina Jolie is the producer of "The Breadwinner" - which premiered at the TCL...

One of America's favorite movie stars may be featured in a war drama about Afghanistan called Shoot Like a Girl.  The film is based on a...

Paper - The Afghan National Army After ISAF. The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) has published an 18-page paper (March ...

Borders Closing to Afghan Migrants. The country of Macedonia has closed its southern border with Greece to Afghan migrants but will all...

I recently had the opportunity to watch the movie entitled - A War .  This Danish film about the troops of Denmark deployed to the vol...

CRS Report on Afghanistan.  Kenneth Katzman of the Congressional Research Service (CRS) writes a periodic report on the situation in Afg...

Paper on NTM-A. Nick Barley has penned an informative history about the training of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). He trac...

Hollywood's latest attempt to portray Afghanistan in the movies is called "Rock the Kasbah". A comedy starring Bill Murray, Br...

Reviews of "Good Kill".  A newly released movie called  "Good Kill"  stars Ethan Hawke as a drone pilot who is trouble...