Afghanistan
The Cult of Massoud
How Afghanistan’s Che Guevara still haunts Hamid Karzai.
BY JAMES VERINI | NOVEMBER 23, 2012
Turkey for the Troops
Sixty years of Thanksgivings for American soldiers abroad.
BY KEVIN BARON, J. DANA STUSTER | NOVEMBER 21, 2012
Trouble on the Home Front
The Petraeuses aren’t the military family we should be worried about.
BY KATHY ROTH-DOUQUET | NOVEMBER 21, 2012
Broken Record
David Petraeus had critics before scandal struck -- they just tended to fly under the radar.
BY URI FRIEDMAN, ELIAS GROLL, TY MCCORMICK | NOVEMBER 14, 2012
New documents from Benghazi show pointed concern
Marines are so littoral, The Navy tries its hand at motorboat drones, The “red herring” of the military vote, What would make Stan McChrystal cringe, and more.
BY GORDON LUBOLD | NOVEMBER 2, 2012
Watchdog SIGAR blasts the ANSF
What Karzai’s election announcement means, Did the F-35 father a new Chinese baby? and more.
NOVEMBER 1, 2012
Fight Night
How Barack Obama and Mitt Romney measure up on the seven foreign policy issues that really matter.
BY JOHN ARQUILLA | OCTOBER 22, 2012
Afghanistan's Gray Future
It's Hamid Karzai's country now, and not everything is black and white.
BY HASEEB HUMAYOON | OCTOBER 18, 2012
Rewarding Impunity
Why is President Obama's attorney general handing out prizes for sweeping torture under the rug?
BY DAVID COLE | OCTOBER 18, 2012
Afghanistan's Fiscal Cliff
Kabul-watchers are rightly worried about what the withdrawal of Western aid money will mean for one of the most impoverished countries on the planet. But everyone's asking the wrong questions.
BY MATTHIEU AIKINS | OCTOBER 17, 2012
Inside and Upside Down
Why the Pentagon's ad hoc plans to prevent green-on-blue attacks could backfire.
BY SIMON KLINGERT | OCTOBER 16, 2012
Talking Our Way Out Of Afghanistan
NATO needs to negotiate with the Taliban NOW, before all the troops -- and our leverage -- are gone.
BY MATT WALDMAN | OCTOBER 9, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
Romney takes on Obama at the first presidential debate, Syria shells Turkey, and Georgia's opposition celebrates a surprise victory.
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Trust Fall
What's behind the inside attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan? The 2014 timeline for withdrawal.
BY FELISA DYRUD, DAVOOD MORADIAN | OCTOBER 2, 2012
Tribal Warfare
Why did the Pentagon award a $7 million Afghanistan security contract to this group of Native Americans in Oklahoma?
BY JOHN REED | SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
Golden Buddha, Hidden Copper
Twelve years after the Taliban blew up the world-famous Bamiyan Buddhas, a Chinese mining firm -- developing one of the world's largest copper deposits -- threatens to destroy another of Afghanistan's archeological treasures.
BY LOIS PARSHLEY | SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
What Happens When the Lights Go Out in Karachi?
Three scary questions that keep Pakistanis up at night.
BY SHAMILA N. CHAUDHARY | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012
So Much for the Good War
It's time to admit that Obama's Afghanistan strategy is a total failure.
BY ARIF RAFIQ | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
'Our Strategic Compass Is Unmoored'
Notes from a general to his active-duty sons on the lessons of Afghanistan.
BY DAVID BARNO | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Are We Winning in Afghanistan?
An exclusive interview with Gen. John Allen, commander of America's forgotten war.
INTERVIEW BY GORDON LUBOLD | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Sound and Sensible
Mitt Romney’s foreign policy would echo the best of America’s bipartisan traditions. But the desperate Obama caricature of it is just a sad indication of how much the president has failed.
BY PETER D. FEAVER | AUGUST 30, 2012
A Dangerous Mind
Mitt Romney’s foreign policy isn’t an afterthought, it’s a frightening return to a bullying neoconservative ideology -- and Americans should be worried.
BY BRUCE W. JENTLESON, CHARLES A. KUPCHAN | AUGUST 30, 2012
Chicago street gang and Lyndon LaRouche appear in Qaddafi's FBI file
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
No, the Spanish can’t be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
Obama scolds military over sexual assaults
BY KEVIN BARON
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
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