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If you believe the headlines, Afghanistan is "the graveyard of empires," a "quagmire" and a "fiasco," the place where President Barack Obama will meet his "Vietnam."
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?
Military progress is being made in Afghanistan. There's no reason to alienate moderate Pashtuns.
by LTG James M. Dubik, U.S. Army, (Ret.) ARMY Magazine, June 2010
The parliament has learned how to use the power of the purse.
The delay in White House decision-making is protracting and complicating the campaign in Afghanistan
Negotiating with the Haqqani network, a terrorist organization in Afghanistana nd Pakistan, is not an option.
The most recent Washington Post article written by ISW's Dr. Kimberly Kagan, LTG James M. Dubik, and AEI's Frederick W. Kagan, on the state of Afghanistan's security forces.
As future colonels, generals and senior sergeants major, you will be responsible not only for figuring out what should be reformed and what conserved, but also for directing and supervising necessary changes.
