Afghanistan is the only country in modern history that has been at war for almost half a century; it has been haunted with violence, bloodshed, and displacement since 1979. How did it all start? Are those wars really ending? Read more: Could Afghanistan finally be on the...
Clifford May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, called Afghanistan “one battle in a long, world war to defend the West against the resurgent and dynamic forces of jihadism,” However, before 2001 the Taliban focused on mis-ruling their nation, not attacking anyone else. ...
Gen. Mark Milley said in a new interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz that he has "lots of regrets" about how the United States' 20-year war in Afghanistan ended 1 year ago Gen. Mark Milley reflects on US withdrawal from Afghanistan, 2 years later Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the...
there is neither the cause nor the outrage needed to generate a significant anti-war movement. The lack of a strong anti-war movement serves to prolong Pentagon folly, which is fine with the Pentagon, as long as budgets for war
The current tension over how long the war will last -- from 40 years, according to one general, to five from another, to some optimistic lesser time from the Secretary of State demonstrate how schizophrenic our policy-makers are. This schizophrenia afflicts every aspect of our strategy, be ...
s Afghan surge, we gazed upon this weird way station of America’s war effort with exhausted eyes. Fatigue breeds a certain stripped-down simplicity —“Just show me to my damn cot, already!”— so it took until morning to truly spy the strangeness. It was a place of curious co...
how their stories will be recorded and remembered. Glass boxes hold personal mementos from civilians killed over 40 years of conflict: a father disappeared by the Soviet-backed government, a husband killed during civil-war shelling, a teenage boy executed by the Taliban, a sc...
How do we define win? “As long as it takes” is not a viable option, it’s just a recipe for another Vietnam, another Afghanistan. 3) What role if any will diplomacy with Russia play in achieving this end game, whatever it is? Have the Russians sought to meet and discuss the war...
The doctor described how, in his home district of Shinwar and neighboring Achin, few plants have grown on the land in the five years since the MOAB was dropped. “People thought that the Americans had sprayed chemicals in the air or added something to the source of water,” Shinwari ...
This book examines the transformation of the discourse and praxis of peace, from its early beginnings in the literature on war and power, to the development of intellectual and theoretical discourses of peace. This is contrasted with the... OP Richmond,OP Richmond - 《Rethinking Peace & Conflict...