Afghan War Blog

Four U.S. Air Force airmen were disciplined through administrative means for their role in a friendly fire incident last June in Afghanis...

In order for the United States to provide financial aid to Pakistan the State Department has to certify that Pakistan is doing what is ma...

The retrograde of U.S. personnel, vehicles, and equipment has been ongoing for the last few years. Hundreds of small and large Forward Opera...

EUPOL has posted an explanation of their Line of Operation 3 (LO3) for training up the Afghan National Police. LO3 is the Rule of Law Compo...

Franz-Stefan Gady , an Associate Editor with The Diplomat,  provides us with his assessment of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). ...

Participating in a war has a great effect on people and some have trouble recovering. Many suffer from varying degrees of Post Traumatic Str...

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

A-T Solutions  has won the NATO Resolute Support Mission contract to provide advisory and assistance services to support the Resolute Suppor...

The Wall Street Journal  reports (Jan 6, 2015) that China is creating a new avenue for Afghan peace talks. The Chinese are hosting a ...

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The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded contracts for about $40 million for the continuing of contract rotary-wing support in Afghanist...

A USFOR-A graphic published in early January 2015 depicts how much personnel, vehicles and cargo containers have been moved out of Afghanis...

Joseph J. Collins, a retired Army Colonel, former Deputy Asst. Secretary of Defense, and now employed at the National Defense University (ND...

Peter Bergen, a CNN National Security Analyst, has penned an opinion piece entitled "Why U.S. needs to stay in Afghanistan" , CNN,...

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

A few weeks back retired General John Scales wrote an  article  in the January issue of  The Atlantic  on why the M-4 is a bad rifle for th...

Jan Agha Iqbal, a former diplomat, writes about the role of moderate Islam through Sufism could provide stability in Afghanistan. He believe...

A Taliban delegation visited Beijing recently for peace talks with Chinese officials . The delegation was led by Qari Din Mohammad - a membe...

The inability of the Afghan government to appoint a cabinet has been the topic of online humor. Read more in "Taliban 'joke...

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Lara Logan interviews General John Campbell  and President Ghani  for a "60 Minutes" segment. The interview (about 14 mins long...

According to senior military leaders the U.S. drone fleet is at the breaking point.  Too many missions and too few drone pilots are threate...

General John Campbell, ISAF Commander, was interviewed by ABC News. He addressed the purpose of the mission under Resolute Support - which i...

Afghanistan's judicial system is a farce . We are once again confronted with another example of how corrupt the Afghan police and judici...

Karl Eikenberry, a retired 3-star general and former ambassador to Afghanistan, is interviewed about the military-civilian compact, the elim...

A news article describes the C-17 Globemastter III that is a 'flying hospital'. It is used for MEDEVACs from the war zone to a hospi...

President Ghani of Afghanistan believes the end of 2016 may be too soon for the complete withdrawal of international troops. 2014 was the de...

Some Balochs from Pakistan are seeking refuge in Afghanistan. There is a small insurgency in the Balochistan province of Pakistan that has...

A ceremony was held in Kabul by French troops to mark the end of their deployment and the end of the NATO ISAF mission. Part of the French ...

A "SEAL Breacher Study" will explore the way that Navy SEAL brains are affected by repeated blasts. Two researchers will conduct t...

The United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has published its "Tip of the Spear 2014 in Photos" issue. You can view o...

Afghan news outlets report that a EUPOL vehicle was attacked by a suicide bomber on Monday afternoon in east Kabul in PD9 on Pul-e-Ch...

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The Annotated Bibliography for Resolute Support - has been updated and posted. The ISAF mission ended on 31 December 2014 and the NATO Res...

The U.S. Army Special Forces Combat Dive School located at Key West, Florida has quietly changed its school motto. The motto - "I Ca...

With the conclusion of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, the end of U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan, and a "responsible end to the Af...

Zhao Minghao writes about how China and the United States are interacting in relation to Afghanistan. With the withdrawal of American tro...

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has many programs to assist development throughout the world. One of these ...

Carter Malkasian has penned a book review of retired LTG Daniel Bolger's book entitled "Why We Lost" . LTG Bolger has been ...

A news article by Shakti Sinha, a former civil servant who worked in Afghanistan for the UN for three years, examines India - Afghanistan ...

A recent post online discusses how trainers and advisors conducting Foreign Internal Defense or FID can build rapport with their counterpar...

A recently published news video explains ISAF's new mission in Afghanistan - Resolute Support. There is a massive change in the size o...

Azam Ahmed  writes  about how  unruly factions hurt the Taliban's  bid to capture Afghan hearts and territory. ( New York Times,  Jan 2,...

Afghanistan's orphans live a very vulnerable life. Funding of orphanages is limited and hampered by the corruption of the Afghan...

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Flying students in the Afghan Air Force (AAF) attend their training at Shindand Airbase in western Afghanistan. The aircraft they learn ...