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Afghanistan

Biden Can Redeem His Mistake

April 13, 2021

Left: Vietnamese refugees during the evacuation of Da Nang; Right: Joe Biden.

Counterinsurgency Isn’t the Answer

February 5, 2021

Insurrectionists at the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Trump Makes a Bad Situation Worse in Afghanistan

November 30, 2020

Our Complacent Commander in Chief

July 3, 2020

A Marine General’s Next Battle: Grocery-Store Logistics

March 25, 2020

Lieutenant General Larry Nicholson pictured next to blue and yellow boxes.

The U.S. Once Wanted Peace in Afghanistan

February 29, 2020

A U.S. soldier stands at a post in Nangarhar province alongside an Afghan civilian.

The Lessons of the Afghanistan Papers

Tamara Cofman Wittes and Kevin Huggard

December 17, 2019

Members of the U.S. military walk through an opium poppy field in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in 2011. Nearly a decade into the war in Afghanistan, opium poppies are still the major crop for many farmers and a big source of income for the Taliban despite expensive efforts to stamp out cultivation.

If Ukraine Is Impeachable, What’s Afghanistan?

Andrew Bacevich

December 10, 2019

An American soldier points his rifle at a doorway after coming under fire by the Taliban while on patrol in Kandahar province in April 2012.

Everyone Knew We Were Losing in Afghanistan

David A. Graham

December 9, 2019

George W. Bush in Afghanistan

Democrats Are Hypocrites for Condemning Trump Over Syria

October 18, 2019

Democratic candidates

Trump Might Make a Big Mistake in Afghanistan

Richard Fontaine

August 2, 2019

U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan

The Promise Presidential Candidates Never Make Good On

July 31, 2019