Monthly Archives: December 2011

PAUL L. YINGLING: An Absence of Strategic Thinking – On the Multitude of Lessons Not Learned in Afghanistan

This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. The withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from Afghanistan cannot properly … Continue reading

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IVAN ARREGUIN-TOFT: Washington’s Colonial Conundrum in Afghanistan – Why the United States Cannot Stay Forever

This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. The future of Afghanistan is crucial for three reasons. First, after a Marxist … Continue reading

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JASON LYALL: Afghanistan’s Lost Decade – What Went Wrong Between the Two Bonn Conferences

This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. In late 2001, flush with an unexpectedly easy victory over the Taliban, the … Continue reading

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FREDERICK W. KAGAN and KIMBERLY KAGAN: The Case for Continuing the Counterinsurgency Campaign In Afghanistan – The South May Be Under Control But the East Is Not

This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. U.S. and allied forces have made great progress in Afghanistan since the start … Continue reading

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ZALMAY KHALILZAD: The Three Futures for Afghanistan – Why the Country Needs a Long-Term Commitment From the United States

This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. Ten years after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the gains that the international … Continue reading

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STEPHEN BIDDLE: Leaving Afghanistan to the Warlords – An Unpalatable Prospect, But the Least Worst Option

This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. The range of achievable outcomes in Afghanistan is narrowing as Western effort wanes. … Continue reading

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Lt. Col. JOHN NAGL: A Shift in the Afghanistan Strategy-Put the National Army in Front Now

This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. A recent trip through Kabul and Regional Command East, an area the size … Continue reading

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