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In Pakistan, the United States must ensure that policies, actions and resources focus on population-centric security and a community-based approach to policing.
The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...
Lionel Beehner | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Let's turn to Afghanistan. There is a weak and corrupt government, little to no standing armed forces, and parts of the country entirely controlled by the Taliban.
Malou Innocent | Posted 11.10.2009 | World
Obama's decision on Afghanistan could define his presidency. If an escalating military strategy leads only to thousands of more deaths, then that is a bitter legacy indeed.
William Astore | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Can one truly be both Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, both cunning and courteous Jedi Knight and Dark Lord of imperial power projection?
Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...
AP | ELENA BECATOROS and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
KABUL — The killing of five British troops by a rogue Afghan policeman underlines concerns about training and discipline within the ranks and po...
AP | ROBERT H. REID and KATHY GANNON | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
KABUL — President Hamid Karzai promised to stamp out corruption. The image suggested otherwise. Standing at Karzai's side on Tuesday were his tw...
David Quigg | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
The basic grim truths that Matthew Hoh wrote about in his much-quoted resignation letter were all basically true when he took his job a few months ago.
Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
We are partnering with a symbol of government corruption, which undermines any trust we might receive from the population. We are funding the insurgency we are attempting to counter.
Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
If you're looking for the man who once asked, "how do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" you better keep looking. The senator seems to have left him behind.
Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
We can now stand back in awe as the unpunished perpetrators of massive election fraud vie for control of the criminal enterprise called the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.15.2009 | World
A lengthy and focused counterinsurgency effort might eventually produce results, but its chances of success are greatly diminished by the political climate in Afghanistan.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.14.2009 | Entertainment
The second part of my interview with Daniel Ellsberg, the true American hero who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.
David Quigg | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Afghanistan represents the opportunity for Obama to serve the American people brilliantly and, along the way, demonstrate that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
Does the United States want to rid Afghanistan of the Taliban, or does it want to eliminate Al-Qaeda as a terrorist organization and find some modus operendi with the Taliban?
Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.29.2009 | Entertainment
I was enthralled by The Most Dangerous Man in America, and when I was told that Ellsberg would be in Los Angeles for a week in late September and would be available for an interview, I jumped at the chance.
Jeff Stein | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
McChrystal is in for a rude awakening if he thinks he's a latter-day MacArthur, with a vast conservative following ready to rally to his side.
The Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson and Scott Wilson | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates stressed Monday that military and civilian leaders should keep their advice to President Obama on Afghanistan privat...
AP | ROBERT H. REID and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 10.05.2009 | World
KABUL — Hundreds of insurgents armed with automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenades stormed a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan bor...
AP | LORI HINNANT | Posted 10.04.2009 | World
KABUL — An Afghan policeman on patrol with U.S. soldiers opened fire on the Americans, killing two of them before fleeing, officials said Saturd...
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
If we want to see this president succeed, a vocabulary shift is vital. The more we use leftover framing and messaging rhetoric from the Iraq War, the easier we make it for the right wing to do the same.
Colin Thomas-Jensen | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
The sad truth is that a much-needed debate over what an effective counterinsurgency strategy would look like in eastern Congo -- similar to what is going on regarding Afghanistan -- is virtually non-existent.
Derrick Crowe | Posted 09.23.2009 | World
If the president was looking for a signal that the situation had progressed to a stage in which the military could not offer a credible plan to deal with it, this is it.
Newsweek | Mark Hosenball | Posted 09.21.2009 | World
Some U.S. special forces in Afghanistan and Pakistan may be at higher risk than usual of injury and death because the Pentagon has not equipped their ...
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Lisa Schirch | Posted 11.12.2009 | World