1. The Afghan Army: Taking a Beating

    In public, U.S .military officials have chosen to focus on their success in training and advising an Afghan national security [...]

  2. America’s Post-2014 Afghanistan Game Plan

    After months of debate in the U.S. defense community and anxious waiting from Afghan watchers, General John R. Allen—the senior [...]

  3. China Eyes Afghan Goldmine

    Not everyone is leaving Afghanistan. Zhou Yongkang, China’s security supremo, became the first member of the country’s top leadership to [...]

  4. Another Blow to Afghan Stability

    (The following is a guest editor's entry by Daniel R. Depetris)  With thousands of troops scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan [...]

  5. Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth – Fact or Fiction?

    (The following is a guest post from Eli Sugarman of the Truman National Security Project) On July 17, the Afghan [...]

  6. Will NATO Look East?

    All eyes will be on Chicago this weekend, as the city hosts NATO’s annual summit – a meeting that will [...]

  7. More on Afghanistan

    Just following up on the news I mentioned earlier today that the Taliban is suspending preliminary talks with the U.S. [...]

  8. Taliban Suspends Talks

    Yesterday it was reports of Pakistan making demands of U.S. forces fighting militants, today it’s Afghanistan. In a further blow [...]

  9. Obama’s Iran Headache

    Iran is undoubtedly Barack Obama’s biggest foreign policy headache for this year’s presidential election. Having officially ended the campaign in [...]

  10. Outspoken on Afghanistan

    Newt Gingrich may effectively be skipping tomorrow’s key contests in the Republican primary, but he still managed to stay in [...]