A Case For Nation Building In Afghanistan

U.S. soldiers provide security around an Afghan border police check point for traffic control on a major highway in the Spin Boldak district...

Is Afghanistan 'Facing Civil War When US Troops Leave'?

A U.S. service member assigned to Provincial Reconstruction Team Farah shares a laugh with villagers while conducting interviews during a ci...

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials On The War In Afghanistan -- March 27, 2012

Another Side Of Afghanistan -- Larry Towell, Time Back in 2008, photographer Larry Towell’s agency, Magnum Photos, had contacted him about a...

Ignoring The Real Strategic Issue On Afghanistan

Members of the Nagarhar Agribusiness Development Team, which includes U.S. troops, and members of the U.S. Agency for International Developm...

Former Soldiers Comment On Staff Sgt. Robert Bales' Alleged Massacre Of Afghan Civilians

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales checking identity papers during a training exercise at a mockup of an Afghan village at the National Training Center...

Repeating History In Afghanistan

Repeating Iraq’s Mistakes In Afghanistan -- Michael Kamber, The Good Men Project War correspondent Michael Kamber paints a grim picture of t...

Afghanistan: How The 'Hell' Did We Get Here?

U.S. troops from the 101st Airborne Division survey the Afghan-Pakistan frontier from Paktika province, Afghanistan. Army photo/Spc. George ...

Is Alcohol A Problem On U.S. Bases In Afghanistan?

Photo from Adelaide Now In Afghan Killings Case, Questions Over Alcohol -- Bloomberg Businessweek/AP The U.S. military bans alcohol for its ...

Can U.S. And Afghan Special Forces Salvage The Afghan War?

A coalition special operations forces service member defends his position from insurgent small arms fire during a firefight in the Sar Kani ...

Is The Fragile Relationship Between Washington And Kabul Unraveling?

The Divide Between Occupier And Occupied -- Al Jazeera After a week of bloodshed in Afghanistan, we ask if the fragile relationship between ...

A Prescription For More War In Afghanistan

Soldiers from the 8th Commando Kandak clear a room during a training exercise in Tarin Kowt district, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, Feb. 14...

Afghanistan War: A Decade Of Failure

(Click on Image to Enlarge) A Decade Of Failure -- Frank Ledwidge, Daily Mail After a decade of military operations in Afghanistan — the ann...

Can We Still Win In Afghanistan?

U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Gary Volesky, left, talks to troops as they take a short break while on patrol near Wanat Village in the Waygul Valley,...

Is U.S. War Strategy Working In Iraq And Afghanistan?

A U.S. Army soldier walks through a valley during a patrol through Malajat, Afghanistan, June 4, 2011. The soldiers are assigned to the 4th ...

Will President Obama's Afghan Withdrawal Decision Become A Disaster?

REMOVING TROOPS - President Barack Obama addresses the nation about the way forward in Afghanistan and his plan to remove 10,000 American tr...

Why Afghans Don't Take The Taliban To Task For The Harm That They Do

An Afghan policeman inspects the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Khost province February 18, 2011. A suicide car bomb attack on a polic...

What Is Success In Afghanistan

Defining Success ...

Decoding Obama's Comments On War In Afghanistan

Decoding Obama's Comments On War In Afghanistan: What Did He Really Mean? -- Christian Science Monitor Obama’s citing of ‘fragile but re...

Why The Taliban Are The Greatest Enemy Force We Have Faced Since World War II

Photo: Different soldiers play by different rules. Does this make one better than the other? Possibly Beards, Rags And Madmen - And The Art...

Why Is President Obama Doubling Down On Afghanistan? (A Commentary)

SUNSET SCAN - U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Naoto Nakamura scans a village on the other side of a canal near Parghee Bagat in southern Afghan...