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Now that President Obama has authorized Gen. David Petraeus to continue to execute the current strategy in Afghanistan, the question is: Can the U.S. strategy succeed?
This map originally appeared in Afghanistan Report #7: Counterinsurgency in Kandahar - Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign.
This map originally appeared in Afghanistan Report #7: Counterinsurgency in Kandahar - Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign.
This map originally appeared in Afghanistan Report #7: Counterinsurgency in Kandahar - Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign.
This map originally appeared in Afghanistan Report #7: Counterinsurgency in Kandahar - Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign.
This map originally appeared in Afghanistan Report #7: Counterinsurgency in Kandahar - Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign.
Report #7 details the ISAF & Afghan counteroffensive in Kandahar province during summer & fall 2010; part of Hamkari, the term given to the combined civil-military campaign to weaken the insurgency.
In his December 2009 speech at West Point, President Obama set July 2011 as the beginning of a process of transition in Afghanistan...
In his December 2009 speech at West Point, President Obama set July 2011 as the beginning of a process of transition in Afghanistan, where geographic or functional responsibilities are to be handed over from the international coalition to the host nation. As policymakers in NATO capitals and practitioners in Afghanistan think about transition, they can take a lesson from the Iraq experience.
Negotiating with the Haqqani network, a terrorist organization in Afghanistana nd Pakistan, is not an option.