List of Afghanistan articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Step Forward for Afghan Women?
Afghanistan’s about to launch a plan that will promote the role of women in peacemaking. It took a lot of hard work to convince men that women should play an equal role, and the battle isn’t over yet.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Afghanistan’s “Transformation Decade” Depends on the Taliban’s Foot Soldiers
The Transformation Decade in Afghanistan won’t transform much if the motivations for the Taliban’s foot soldiers aren’t understood, or curtailed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 It’s Complicated: The Relationship Between Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Taliban
How will these complex relations impact peace negotiations and a lasting solution?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why We Failed to Win a Decisive Victory in Afghanistan
Shifting political allegiances, not smashing enemies, should have been the goal. And that holds true for the campaign against the Islamic State as well.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Heroes & Monsters: War’s moral injury
Best Defense guest author Sebastian Bae addresses the moral injury today's soldiers face post-deployment.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Future of War: What the Army chief of staff thinks he learned from Iraq
That the “whole of government” must participate in a war is one of the tired myths that the Army needs to stop singing to itself.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The United States Is Mostly Out of Afghanistan, but Torture of Detainees There Continues
A new report finds that 35 percent of detainees in Afghan-run detention facilities interviewed by the U.N. had been tortured or mistreated.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Great Wall of AfPak
China is pushing into Afghanistan while ensuring Pakistani cooperation, for the time being.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why did we lose in Afghanistan?: ‘Afghan good enough’ wasn’t the problem; ‘American good enough’ was—and still is
A special post by Best Defense debater on Afghan war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 More from Lt. Gen. McMaster
General H.R. McMaster has been making the rounds lately, emphasizing the enduring difficulty of war and the fallacy of technological fixes.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 If You Love Something, Set It Free
If it’s meant to be, it will come back to you. It seems that’s been Hamid Karzai’s approach to political power in Afghanistan -- and it’s working.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How ISIS Could Become a Potent Force in South Asia
Despite skepticism that ISIS won’t make inroads in South Asia, here are three ways it could.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 An enlisted view: No boots allowed?
This column inaugurates a new Best Defense feature, “Council of the Former Enlisted,” which seeks to give more voice to the great majority of military personnel and vets who are not or were not officers.
