Afghan War Blog

NATO's Resolute Support Headquarters wants you to know that it has " a path to a win " in Afghanistan. The increase of th...

Failure of SFA. Mara Karlin writes that the concept of training and equipping foreign militaries is not the big ticket item that many sen...

Scaling Back as an Option? The White House is unable to come to grips with developing a strategy for the Afghan conflict. The Resolute...

Trump Administration Still Working on Strategy. The U.S. is once again conducting a review of the strategy needed to fight and end Ame...

President Trump provided the authority to Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to determine the troop levels for the U.S. presence in Afghanist...

Over the past several months the Afghan security institutions have developed a strategic plan to enhance the capacity and capability of ...

Russia has been identified by our military leaders as our number threat today and for the years to come. The reemergence of Russia as a thre...

Michael E. O'Hanlon predicts that President Obama will rethink his plan to have all operational U.S. combat forces out of Afghanistan b...

David Kilcullen , a renowned expert on counterinsurgency and no stranger to Afghanistan has published a paper (6 pages) about the future of ...

The folks at the War Council Blog  are contending that they can educate a person in strategy in one hour or 300 words. See "Zero to Cl...

National Review Online has come out with an online article praising President Obama's recent decision to extend combat operations in A...

A recent article in Army Magazine   by Lt. Gen James M. Dubik (U.S. Army retired) points out that while the U.S. military is tactically prof...

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is on the way out. He resigned on Monday; although it isn't clear if he was pushed out or if he wan...

A classified order was signed by President Obama in recent weeks authorizing a more expansive role for the military in Afghanistan in 2015....

A commentator provides his thoughts on what the U.S. has accomplished in Afghanistan (and Iraq) after years of fighting. Read "The Amer...

A commentator, Edward Corcoran, provides us with the rationale for staying in Afghanistan. He provides strategic and practical reasons. Read...

The United Kingdom has completed its 13 year-long war in Afghanistan. It will keep some military officers and NCOs on the NATO staff that...

As the commitment to Afghanistan subsides, U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, and our focus changes from Afghanistan to the Pacific, eastern Eur...

The  Danish Government  has published a new strategy for the combined Danish efforts in Afghanistan for the years 2015-2017. The strategy ...

LTG (Ret) Daniel Bolger, an infantry officer, has penned an article that provides an account of the U.S. military's mistakes in the Af...