Afghanistan

'Don't Try to Convince Yourself That You're in Control'

Afghan lessons for arming the Syrian rebels from the CIA's mujahideen point man.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JUNE 14, 2013

How to Negotiate Like a Pashtun

A field guide to dealing with the Taliban.

BY JONAH BLANK | JUNE 3, 2013

Karzai's India Gamble

Pakistan isn't helping the Afghan government end its standoff with the Taliban -- so Karzai is looking to India instead. 

BY MUJIB MASHAL | MAY 31, 2013

A Shameful Neglect

It's time to stop pretending that America's in Afghanistan to help women.

BY ANNA BADKHEN | MAY 31, 2013

Flexible Spending Account

How the Pentagon is wriggling its way through sequestration.

BY GORDON ADAMS | MAY 23, 2013

Curing America's Fear of Commitment

Karzai is an ingrate, but the Afghans need us.

BY MARC CHRETIEN | MAY 20, 2013

Getting to Yes with the Taliban

The case for negotiating with terrorists.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | MAY 20, 2013

The Afghan Bag Man

The foiled arrest that explains America’s failure in Afghanistan.

BY SARAH CHAYES | MAY 4, 2013

Kabul's Unlikely New Ally

Has Pakistan decided it's finally time to embrace Afghanistan?

BY DANIEL SAGALYN | MAY 1, 2013

Springtime in Kabul

While the media obsessed over the missteps, Afghans were building a better future.

MAY/JUNE 2013

An Inconvenient Truth

Finally, proof that the United States has lied in the drone wars.

BY MICAH ZENKO | APRIL 10, 2013

Why Sticks and Stones Will Beat Our Drones

The persistent dangers of low-tech warfare.

BY ROSA BROOKS | APRIL 4, 2013

Let Them Go

Why John Brennan should give a passport and $10K to every Gitmo prisoner.

BY ROSA BROOKS | MARCH 28, 2013

Leaning Out

How the United States is abandoning Afghanistan's women.

BY AMIE FERRIS-ROTMAN | MARCH 20, 2013

This Is Not the Drone Debate We're Looking For

How Rand Paul and company are totally missing the point.

BY MICAH ZENKO | MARCH 19, 2013

What Vali Nasr Gets Wrong

A former State Department insider has written a blistering account of the Obama administration’s missteps in Afghanistan. But is he right?

BY SARAH CHAYES | MARCH 12, 2013

Wanted: Ph.D.s Who Can Win a Bar Fight

How to reform the Pentagon for "light footprint" interventions.

BY FERNANDO M. LUJÁN | MARCH 8, 2013

Good News from the Hindu Kush

How Afghanistan has changed for the better after more than a decade of war.

BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH | MARCH 4, 2013

The Inside Story of How the White House Let Diplomacy Fail in Afghanistan

"My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience."

BY VALI NASR | MARCH 4, 2013

Battle-Tested

Insiders debate America's misfires in Iraq and Afghanistan.

MARCH 4, 2013

What Went Wrong in Afghanistan?

We asked everyone from an ex-president of Pakistan to a former Afghan spy chief to weigh in.

MARCH 4, 2013

What Went Right?

Critics of the war are missing the big picture: Afghanistan is much better off today.

BY PETER BERGEN | MARCH 4, 2013

Lessons Learned (and Not)

Seven things we've learned after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MARCH 4, 2013

How Not to Withdraw from Afghanistan

Lessons from America's other war.

BY JIM MCDERMOTT, LAWRENCE WILKERSON | FEBRUARY 26, 2013