Afghan War Blog

An excerpt of the book "The Good War" by Jack Fairweather is provided at the link below. In this excerpt he addresses the U.S. wi...

A new report has been published that examines United States policy in Afghanistan after 2014. The report poses (and answers six key quest...

An expat who teaches school in Kabul provides his perspective on the future of Afghanistan. Read "Afghanistan: Reaching In and Reaching...

President Obama has ordered the Pentagon to start developing plans for the "zero option". Read more in "Obama orders Pentagon...

The Council on Foreign Relations Center for Preventive Action has released a Council Special Report entitled " Afghanistan After the ...

The White House is considering several options for a continued US military presence in Afghanistan. One option (sometimes referred to as the...

Retired General Stan McChrystal says that Afghanistan needs a continued United States military presence to provide a degree of confidence th...

A pessimistic editorial on the future of Afghanistan is provided in a February 18, 2014 opinion provided by The Post and Courier entitled ...

There is a lot of speculation on the what Afghanistan looks like after the year 2014. Much is riding on the outcome of the Afghan presidenti...

Many observers are contemplating the Afghanistan that will be left behind in the post-2014 era. The observations are mixed - from downright ...

A contributor to the Geopolitical Monitor , Marc Simms, provides his comments on what he thinks post-2014 Afghanistan looks like in a recent...

The Taliban have been confidently proclaiming that they will be resurgent in the post-2014 era in Afghanistan. Their information operations ...

As we ease into 2014 observers of the Afghan conflict are looking at the post-2014 era in Afghanistan when ISAF will remove most of its troo...

In a Council of Foreign Affairs event the chief of staff for the Army, General Odierno, said it is important to keep a U.S. presence in Afg...

The commandant of the United States Marine Corps spends a lot of time in Helmand and Nimroz provinces which make up Regional Command Southwe...

A commentator, Scott Taylor, for a Canadian newspaper provides us his outlook on possible outcomes of the Afghan War. He looks at the eleven...

Most observers look at the outcome in Afghanistan as a failure. The government is ineffective and corrupt, the Taliban remain strong and ent...

A recent report states that the Taliban will increase its influence in rural areas of Afghanistan and regain territory in the east and sout...

Sharif Azami, a Program Officer for the Fetzer Institute, writes " Afghanistan Can Use a Strong Dose of Morale Optimism" , on The ...

The residual force to remain in Afghanistan post-2014 (if the Bilateral Security Agreement is signed) will be very special operations heavy...