List of Afghanistan articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Burning Trash and Money in Afghanistan
U.S. troops in Afghanistan burned waste in hazardous open pits -- against Pentagon regulations -- while safer (but defective) incinerators sat idle.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Gourley Challenge, Round 2: Here is what I think he misses on the Afghan war
Thomas Donnelly: I write again mostly to point out the near-contradictions in Jim Gourley’s thought.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Gourley challenge: We used the wrong tools for the Afghan problem
Our military has so far failed to achieve success in Afghanistan because the U.S. sent an army, which is a tool of diplomacy, to solve a non-diplomatic problem.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why did we fail in the Afghan war? Because we didn’t understand the place
Our problem was we quickly lost sight of the purpose of war: to force your enemy to submit to your will.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is There an Islamic State of AfPak?
Will an IS branch in AfPak take hold, even after the death of its deputy chief Abdul Rauf Khadim?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Looming Specter of Daesh in Afghanistan
Is Daesh a threat to Afghanistan, or do they just have a good public relations strategy?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Save Afghanistan’s Democracy
Afghanistan’s last election almost tore the country apart. The next one has to be different.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Taking the Gourley challenge: I’ll tell you in one word why we lost in Afghanistan
That one word: Pakistan.