Counterinsurgency in Helmand: Progress and Remaining Challenges
January 5, 2011
Coalition and Afghan forces have made remarkable progress clearing and holding critical districts in central and southern Helmand province.
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Publications
"Why we must stick with Obama's Afghan strategy" (Washington Post)
December 17, 2010 - Kimberly Kagan
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?
ISAF Operations in Zhari & Panjwai - September & October 2010
December 15, 2010 -
This map originally appeared in Afghanistan Report #7: Counterinsurgency in Kandahar - Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign.
Disposition of ISAF & Afghan Forces - November 2010
December 15, 2010 -
This map originally appeared in Afghanistan Report #7: Counterinsurgency in Kandahar - Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign.
Disposition of ISAF & Afghan Forces - May 2010
December 15, 2010 -
This map originally appeared in Afghanistan Report #7: Counterinsurgency in Kandahar - Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign.
Zhari & Panjwai
December 15, 2010 -
This map originally appeared in Afghanistan Report #7: Counterinsurgency in Kandahar - Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign.
Arghandab District
December 15, 2010 -
This map originally appeared in Afghanistan Report #7: Counterinsurgency in Kandahar - Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign.
Counterinsurgency in Kandahar: Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign
December 15, 2010
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.
Iraq's Lessons For Transition In Afghanistan
November 15, 2010 - LTG James M. Dubik (U.S. Army, Ret.)
In his December 2009 speech at West Point, President Obama set July 2011 as the beginning of a process of transition in Afghanistan...
Iraq’s Lessons for Transition in Afghanistan
November 15, 2010 - ISW Press
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.