Afghan War Blog

Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) has penned a report entitled "Afghanistan at Tran...

Thomas Ruttig , a long-term observer of all things Afghanistan and co-founder of the Afghan Analysts Network (AAN), provides his comments on...

Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Afghanistan's National Security Advisor , made some remarks at the ISAF / Resolute Support transition ceremony in ...

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) held a ceremony concluding operations in Afghanistan and transitioning to the new NATO...

Anderson, LTG Joseph and MAJ Matthew McCreary. “International Security Assistance Force Joint Command 2014: The Year of Change” , Military ...

Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic & International Studies has conducted a study entitled  "Afghan Forces on the Edg...

The Afghan 215th ANA Corps inherited a sprawling base in southwest Afghanistan with the departure of the Marines from Camp Leatherneck . The...

A journalist who spent time with British forces in Afghanistan remembers his impressions of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). Read...

A noted author and correspondent with a great deal of expertise in Afghanistan has commented on the current situation in Afghanistan. The au...

Transition, when referring to Afghanistan, is used to describe " . . . the process by which the lead responsibility for security in Afg...

The United States and Coalition partners are quickly reducing their footprint. In most all provinces there is no Coalition presence. In a ...

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

M. Farshid Hakinyar, the Founding Director of the Afghanistan Organization for Strategic Studies in Kabul has wrote a piece that looks at th...

2013 was a year that the ISAF Coalition stepped away from the fighting on the ground. ISAF did conduct some combat related operations such a...

A recent article by Karl Inderfurth and Theodore Eliot on The AFPAK Channel  of Foreign Policy indicates that some Afghans have a positive o...

The World Bank has published a comprehensive document entitled "Afghanistan in Transition" . The book explores the ramifications...

Village Elders in Khak-e-Sayfed district attend Shura on security transition (photo Sgt Chadwick de Bree) Across Afghanistan districts...

In July 2011 NATO and the Afghan government started the security transition process which entailed the handover of security responsibilities...

With the year 2014 slowly getting closer those Afghans who can afford to leave are planning their departure - just in case. Many are hedging...

In a very short but concise piece Andrew Exum , a fellow at the Center for a New American Security , writes about what our endgame in Afghan...