Afghan War Blog

DoD,  Report on Enhancing Security and Stability in Afghanistan ,  June 2015. The '1225 report' is replacing the '1230 report...

RAND Corporation has published a report that could be useful to air advisors of TAAC Air who are training, advising, and assisting the ...

The Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) has published an extensive study of the deaths caused by the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and...

The Center for Irregular Warfare and Armed Groups of the United States Naval War College in Newport, Rhodes Island has published a new pap...

Harry R. Yarger of the Joint Special Operations University has wrote a paper entitled "Building Partner Capacity" , JSOU Report...

It is estimated that the Department of Defense (DoD), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Department of State (...

A paper recently published (Dec 2014) entitled "Russian Organizational Learning in the Context of Afghanistan and Chechnya Counterins...

A paper just published examines NATO's new mission - Resolute Support - and provides some concerns and recommendations. The paper sug...

The Center for a New American Security, an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit organization, has released a recently published (January 8...

An extensive paper has been posted on the Small Wars Journal  entitled "Countering 21st Center Threats: The Need for an Increased Joint...

A new paper by Michael Semple on the Taliban has been published. Semple is a peace practitioner and scholar who focuses on Afghanistan and ...

Afghanistan has a long history of the use of locally-based militias to keep areas secure and loyal to the Afghan central government. The p...

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has published a CRS report entitled "A Guide to U.S. Military Casualty Statistics" dated ...

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...

Aarya Nijat of the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) has published a report (policy note) about women and leadership in Afgh...

The United States Army Combined Arms Center (CAC) has recently published The Human Dimension White Paper: A Framework for Optimizing Human...

The United States is not the first nation that has attempted to wage a counterinsurgency campaign, train up a host nation army, and conduc...

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

If you are on your way to Afghanistan (or Iraq . . . or anywhere) to be a military advisor then a paper wrote by LTC Joshua Potter (US Arm...

The Small Wars Journal has posted another paper about counterinsurgency. "How Counterinsurgency Has Changed Across the 20th and Into ...