A decade of war suggests that the only feasible option to end the war in Afghanistan is to engage the insurgents in a political negotiation. What has gone wrong? In 2001, when the US-led forces and their local allies, the warlords of the Northern Alliance, brought down the Taliban regime, the Western coalition enjoyed an overwhelming Western and international support. The number of US-led forces at that time was barely 9000. This staunch support, however, has declined
America’s longest war will end in defeat, but it is still possible to achieve a tolerable outcome to...
After months of speculation, the dice is cast: the US will withdraw its remaining combat troops from...
The aim of this article is to evaluate prolonged American intervention in Afghanistan. In this regar...
In the context of the recently opened Taliban office in Doha (Qatar), and the start of talks between...
The end of the US troops surge, the increasing insider attacks on Western forces and the ongoing dow...
Initiating the conflict in Afghanistan may have been unavoidable, but there is a similar necessity t...
Now is not the time to abandon Afghanistan argue Anthony Bubalo and Michael Fullilove. The de...
Afghanistan since the Soviet Invasion in 1979 and later by the USA in 2001 on the pretext of Global ...
Guerillas win as long as they do not lose, and government forces lose as long as they do not win. In...
Intensified military activity has failed, argue John Braithwaite and Ali Wardak in Inside Story. It’...
‘We try to help them … but it just seems pointless’ one British solider says, referring to the battl...
Every textbook about war suggests that a road to peace runs through the ravages of conflict. The war...
A quarter of a century of wars ending in military triumphs - by the Mujahideen against the Red Army ...
As the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan continues into its ninth year, it is clear that the ...
It has now been about five months since President Obama announced his strategy of increasing troops ...
America’s longest war will end in defeat, but it is still possible to achieve a tolerable outcome to...
After months of speculation, the dice is cast: the US will withdraw its remaining combat troops from...
The aim of this article is to evaluate prolonged American intervention in Afghanistan. In this regar...
In the context of the recently opened Taliban office in Doha (Qatar), and the start of talks between...
The end of the US troops surge, the increasing insider attacks on Western forces and the ongoing dow...
Initiating the conflict in Afghanistan may have been unavoidable, but there is a similar necessity t...
Now is not the time to abandon Afghanistan argue Anthony Bubalo and Michael Fullilove. The de...
Afghanistan since the Soviet Invasion in 1979 and later by the USA in 2001 on the pretext of Global ...
Guerillas win as long as they do not lose, and government forces lose as long as they do not win. In...
Intensified military activity has failed, argue John Braithwaite and Ali Wardak in Inside Story. It’...
‘We try to help them … but it just seems pointless’ one British solider says, referring to the battl...
Every textbook about war suggests that a road to peace runs through the ravages of conflict. The war...
A quarter of a century of wars ending in military triumphs - by the Mujahideen against the Red Army ...
As the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan continues into its ninth year, it is clear that the ...
It has now been about five months since President Obama announced his strategy of increasing troops ...
America’s longest war will end in defeat, but it is still possible to achieve a tolerable outcome to...
After months of speculation, the dice is cast: the US will withdraw its remaining combat troops from...
The aim of this article is to evaluate prolonged American intervention in Afghanistan. In this regar...
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