Afghan War Blog

RS HQs and Social Media. Read the story on how one Public Affairs Officer (PAO) assigned to Resolute Support HQs in Kabul spent her ti...

Video - ISIS and Money.  Watch a four-minute long video explaining how the Islamic State funds itself and how government and private-secto...

Bureau of Counterterrorism Renamed.  The new name is the "Bureau of Counterterrorism and Countering Violent Extremism". This nam...

State Dept, IO, and ISIS. West Point students are now part of the information operations campaign against ISIS. Cadets are now ". . ...

Taliban Attacks on Media. The Taliban attack on the employees of the Tolo TV network in Afghanistan is a shocker to Afghan journalists th...

"Once again the Obama administration is revising its programs to counter and defeat the self-styled Islamic State, particularly on th...

MISO Training. The 1st Special Warfare Training Group at Fort Bragg, North Carolina is responsible for training up the personnel who staf...

War on the Web. There is growing concern about the radicalization of the world's youth via social media. The Islamic State is proven ve...

"Social media is another component of unconventional strategies, and the security environment in general, that is playing a central ro...

Do you ever wonder about what the President of Afghanistan is thinking about? Well, one way to know is to follow Ashraf Ghani's Twitte...

Afghan culture is sometimes confusing to westerners. In our open western societies interaction with the opposite sex is very easy; but in Af...

The use of technology and telecommunications in Afghanistan is one of the bright shining stars that holds great potential for the country. S...

In a counterinsurgency environment information operations (IO) is key. IO can sway public perception to support the government or it can ge...

Don't you wish you could sit in the ISAF commander's office for a day to find out what is really going on? Well, you can . . . sor...

Sam Schneider, who at one time was the online editor for Tolo News , has posted an article on the South Asian Channel (Foreign Policy)  on...

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) will be running a social media campaign they are calling "Nations, Impacts, and C...