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MiPAL: AfghanistanCompiled By The National Defense University Library
Recently Added Documents General Information U.S. Policy White House Department of Defense Department of State Other Policy Sources U.S. Congress Current News Drug Trade Human Rights & Refugees NATO Politics & Government Rebuilding Afghanistan The Taliban Terrorism & Insurgency United Nations Research & Analysis News Sources & Online Journals Web Gateways
Afghanistan Archive
Military Policy Awareness Links
Recently Added Documents This section contains the ten most-recently added documents to this MiPAL. All recently included items can also be found by subject division below.
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General Information
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U.S. Policy
White House
- [11 Jan 13] Joint Press Conference by President Obama and President Karzai
- [11 Jan 13] Joint Statement by President Obama and President Karzai
- [21 May 12] Remarks by the President at NATO Press Conference
- [21 May 12] Remarks by the President at ISAF Meeting on Afghanistan
- [21 May 12] Fact Sheet: Chicago Summit - NATO's Enduring Presence after 2014
- [21 May 12] Fact Sheet: Chicago Summit - Sufficient and Sustainable ANSF
- [21 May 12] Fact Sheet: Chicago Summit - Afghanistan Transition Interim Milestone
- [20 May 12] Remarks by President Obama and President Karzai of Afghanistan after Bilateral Meeting
- [13 May 12] Statement by the President on Afghan Transition
- [2 May 12] Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement between the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- [1 May 12] Remarks by President Obama in Address to the Nation from Afghanistan
- [1 May 12] Remarks by President Obama and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at Signing of Strategic Partnership Agreement
- [1 May 12] Fact Sheet: The U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement
- [1 May 12] Press Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on Strategic Partnership Agreement between the United States and Afghanistan
- [1 May 12] Background Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on President Obama's Trip to Afghanistan
- [11 March 12] Statement by the President on Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan
- [7 Oct 11] Statement by the President on Ten Years of American Service in Afghanistan
- [20 Sep 11] Remarks by President Obama and President Karzai of Afghanistan before Bilateral Meeting
- [22 June 11] Remarks by the President on the Way Forward in Afghanistan
- [22 June 11] Background Conference Call with Senior Administration Officials to Preview the President's Plan for Implementing His Strategy to Draw Down Troops in Afghanistan
- [3 March 11] Press Release: Readout of President Obama's Video Teleconference with President Karzai and National Security Council Meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [26 Jan 11] Statement by NSC Spokesman Mike Hammer on the Inauguration of the Afghan Parliament
- [14 Jan 11] Background Briefing by Senior Administration Official on the Vice President's Trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
- [11 Jan 11] Remarks by Vice President Biden and President Karzai of Afghanistan after Meeting
- [10 Jan 11] Background Briefing by Senior Administration Official on Air Force Two en Route Kabul
- [16 Dec 10] Press Release: Overview of the Afghanistan and Pakistan Annual Review
- [16 Dec 10] Statement by the President on the Afghanistan-Pakistan Annual Review
- [3 Dec 10] Remarks by the President to the Troops at Bagram Air Base
- [3 Dec 10] Press Briefing by General Lute and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Rhodes on the President's Visit to Afghanistan
- [20 Nov 10] Declaration by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on an Enduring Partnership
- [20 Nov 10] Declaration by the Heads of State and Government of the Nations contributing to the UN-mandated, NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan
- [16 Nov 10] White House Press Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the Upcoming NATO and EU Summits in Lisbon, Portugal
Ivo Daalder, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Doug Lute, Special Assistant to the President for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Liz Sherwood-Randall, Senior Director for European Affairs, and Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications
- [16 Sep 10] Press Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on Upcoming Afghan Parliamentary Elections
- [31 Aug 10] Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the End of Combat Operations in Iraq
NOTE: Paragraphs 17 and 18 concern the transition of combat operations in Afghanistan
- [23 Aug 10] Remarks by Vice President Joe Biden at the Veterans of Foreign Wars 111th National Convention
- [18 Aug 10] Executive Order - Establishment of Pakistan and Afghanistan Support Office
- [25 July 10] Statement of National Security Advisor General James Jones on Wikileaks
- [20 July 10] Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom in Joint Press Availability
- [30 June 10] Statement by the President on the Confirmation of General Petraeus
- [24 June 10] Joint Statement by the Presidents of the United States of America and the Russian Federation Concerning Afghanistan
- [23 June 10] Readout of President Obama's Call with President Karzai
- [23 June 10] Statement by the President in the Rose Garden
- [12 May 10] Remarks by President Obama and President Karzai of Afghanistan in Joint Press Availability
- [10 May 10] Press Briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, General McChrystal, and Ambassador Eikenberry
- [7 May 10] Briefing on Upcoming Visit of President Karzai
Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, and LTG Douglas Lute, Special Advisor to the President for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [28 March 10] Remarks by the President to the Troops
- [28 March 10] Remarks by President Obama and President Karzai after Meeting
- [4 Dec 09] The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Foreign Press Center briefing by Gen James Jones, National Security Advisor
- [1 Dec 09] Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [1 Dec 09] Fact Sheet: The Way Forward in Afghanistan
- [1 Dec 09] Press Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the President's West Point Speech
- [1 Dec 09] Readout of President Obama's Video Teleconference with President Karzai
- [2 Nov 09] Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Reinfeldt of Sweden after Meeting
- [20 Oct 09] Statement by President Barack Obama on Afghan Elections
- [20 Oct 09] Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Maliki of Iraq after Meeting
NOTE: First half of the transcript concerns the electoral process in Afghanistan
- [18 Oct 09] State of the Union with John King
Remarks by Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff, and Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee NOTE: Full-text made available by CNN. This is not an official U.S. Government transcript.
- [30 Sep 09] Readout from the Press Secretary on the President's National Security Meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [16 Sep 09] Remarks by President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper during Joint Press Availability
NOTE: Contains remarks on Canada's transition to a civilian humanitarian development role in Afghanistan after 2011
- [21 Aug 09] Remarks by the President on the Recent Elections in Afghanistan
- [6 July 09] Joint Statement by President of the United States of America Barack Obama and President of the Russian Federation D. A. Medvedev Concerning Afghanistan
- [16 June 09] Statement by President Barack Obama on the Start of the Afghan Election Campaign
- [6 May 09] Press Briefing by National Security Advisor General James Jones on the President's Meetings with President Karzai of Afghanistan and President Zardari of Pakistan
- [6 May 09] Remarks by the President after the Trilateral Meeting with President Karzai of Afghanistan and President Zardari of Pakistan
- [9 April 09] White House: Fiscal Year 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Request
- [4 April 09] Background Information: President Obama's Participation in the 60th Anniversary NATO Summit Celebration in Strasbourg-Kehl
- [27 March 09] Remarks by the President on a New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [27 March 09] White Paper of the Interagency Policy Group's Report on U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [27 March 09] Press Briefing by Bruce Riedel, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, and Michelle Flournoy on the New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [27 March 09] President Obama's Afghanistan-Pakistan (AFPAK) Strategy
Foreign Press Center Briefing by General James Jones, National Security Advisor
- [27 March 09] White House Press Office: What's New in the Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [10 March 09] Remarks by Vice President Biden at Press Conference with NATO Secretary General
- [10 March 09] Remarks by Vice President Biden and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in Joint Press Conference
- [10 March 09] Opening Remarks by the Vice President to the North Atlantic Council
- [27 Feb 09] Interview of President Obama by Armed Forces TV
- [17 Feb 09] Statement by the President on Afghanistan
- [18 Dec 08] President and Mrs. Bush Host Reception in Honor of the United States-Afghan Women's Council
- [15 Dec 08] President Bush Participates in Press Availability with Afghanistan President Karzai in Afghanistan
- [15 Dec 08] President Bush Visits with Troops in Afghanistan
- [20 Oct 08] Statement by Press Secretary Dana Perino
NOTE: Condemnation of an attack by the Taliban in Kandahar province
- [1 Oct 08] President Bush Meets with General David McKiernan, Commander for NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan
- [26 Sep 08] President Bush Participates in Video Teleconference with President Karzai of Afghanistan, United States Provincial Reconstruction Team Leaders, National Guard Agriculture Development Team Representatives, and Afghan Governors
- [26 Sep 08] Fact Sheet: Making Afghanistan More Secure with Economic and Reconstruction Assistance
- [9 Sep 08] President Bush Visits National Defense University's Distinguished Lecture Program, Discusses Global War on Terror
NOTE: Discussion of Afghanistan begins in the second half of the transcript
- [29 July 08] Interview of the First Lady by Wendell, Goler, Fox News
- [12 June 08] Mrs. Bush's Remarks at International Conference in Support of Afghanistan
- [12 June 08] What I Saw in Afghanistan
Op-ed by Laura Bush
- [12 June 08] Fact Sheet: The Afghanistan Support Conference: Renewed U.S. and International Commitment
- [11 June 08] Mrs. Bush's Remarks at a Reception with U.S.-Afghan Donors Conference Participants
- [8 June 08] Mrs. Bush's Remarks at the Kabul Presidential Palace
- [8 June 08] Mrs. Bush's Remarks and President Karzai of Afghanistan in Press Availability
- [17 May 08] President Bush Meets with President Karzai of Afghanistan
- [29 April 08] Press Conference by the President
Note: Discusses the attempted assassination of President Karzai half way through
- [2 April 08] President Bush Visits Bucharest, Romania, Discusses NATO
- [2 April 08] President Bush Meets with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
- [20 March 08] Remarks by Vice President Cheney and President Karzai of Afghanistan in Press Availability
- [13 March 08] President Bush Participates in Video Teleconference with Afghanistan Provincial Reconstruction Team Leaders and Brigade Combat Commanders
- [13 March 08] Fact Sheet: Helping Afghanistan Achieve Sustainable Progress
- [26 Sep 07] President Bush Meets with President Karzai of Afghanistan
- [6 Aug 07] President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with President Karzai of Afghanistan
- [23 July 07] President and Mrs. Bush Saddened by Death of Mohammad Zahir Shah
- [21 May 07] President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with NATO Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer
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- [1 March 06] President and Mrs. Bush Dedicate U.S. Embassy Building in Afghanistan
- [1 March 06] President Bush Thanks U.S. and Coalition Troops in Afghanistan
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Department of Defense
- [current] Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan
- [current] Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [30 Jan 13] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [30 Jan 13] Afghan National Security Forces: Limited Visibility Over Fuel Imports Increases the Risk that U.S.-Funded Fuel Purchases Could Violate U.S. Economic Sanctions Against Iran
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [29 Jan 13] Imam Sahib Border Police Company Headquarters in Kunduz Province: $7.3 Million Facility Sits Largely Unused
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [24 Jan 13] Afghan National Army: Controls Over Fuel for Vehicles, Generators, and Power Plants Need Strengthening to Prevent Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [24 Jan 13] Kunduz Afghan National Police Provincial Headquarters: After Construction Delays and Cost Increases, Concerns Remain About the Facility's Usability and Sustainability
Special Inspector General For Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [23 Jan 13] News Briefing with Army Lieutenant General James L. Terry, Commander, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command and Deputy Commander, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, from the Pentagon
- [17 Jan 13] Afghan Police Vehicle Maintenance Contract: Actions Needed to Prevent Millions of Dollars from Being Wasted
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [15 Jan 13] Press Conference by Secretary Leon E. Panetta in Madrid, Spain
- [Jan 13] Afghan Police Vehicle Maintenance Contract: Actions Needed to Prevent Millions of Dollars from Being Wasted
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [31 Dec 12] Statement by Secretary Panetta on the Government of Afghanistan's Security Transition Announcement
- [18 Dec 12] Afghanistan's National Power Utility: $12.8 Million in DOD-Purchased Equipment Sits Unused, and USAID Paid a Contractor for Work Not Done
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [13 Dec 12] Joint Press Conference by Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan
- [11 Dec 12] Anti-Corruption Measures: Persistent Problems Exist in Monitoring Bulk Cash Flows at Kabul International Airport
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [10 Dec 12] Background Briefing on Section 1230 Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan, Pentagon Briefing Room
Senior Defense Official and Senior State Department Official
- [9 Dec 12] Secretary Panetta's Statement on Operations in Afghanistan
- [Dec 12] Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
NOTE: Also know as the "1230 Report"
- [30 Nov 12] Press Release: 4th US-Afghanistan Security Consultations Forum Held in Kabul
- [30 Oct 12] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [30 Oct 12] Afghan National Security Forces Facilities: Concerns with Funding, Oversight, and Sustainability for Operation and Maintenance
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [25 Oct 12] Kunduz Ana Garrison: Army Corps of Engineers Released Dyncorp of All Contractual Obligations Despite Poor Performance and Structural Failures
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [10 Oct 12] Statement to NATO Defense Ministers
Leon E. Panetta, Secretary of Defense
- [10 Oct 12] Remarks by Secretary Panetta at the NATO Ministers of Defense Meeting, Brussels, Belgium
Leon E. Panetta, Secretary of Defense, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, George Little, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, and ADM James G. Stavridis, USN, Commander, European Command, and Supreme Allied Command
- [3 Oct 12] DOD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. Adrian Bradshaw (British Army), Deputy Commander, ISAF, from the Pentagon
- [27 Sep 12] DOD News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey from the Pentagon
- [20 Sep 12] Statement from Secretary of Defense Panetta on Recovery of Surge Forces in Afghanistan
- [19 Sep 12] DOD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Roger Noble, ISAF Deputy Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Australian Army, from the Pentagon
- [10 Sep 12] Interim Report on Afghan National Army Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants
- [5 Sep 12] DOD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. James L. Terry, Commander, ISAF Joint Command/Deputy Commanding General, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, and Commanding General, U.S. Army V Corps, from the Pentagon
- [23 Aug 12] DOD News Briefing with Gen. John R. Allen, Commander, International Security Assistance Force, from the Pentagon
- [19 Aug 12] Press Release: Secretary Panetta and President Karzai Talked by Phone Earlier Today to Discuss the War in Afghanistan
- [14 Aug 12] DOD News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey from the Pentagon
- [1 Aug 12] DOD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Putt, Deputy Commanding General of the V U.S. Corps, Director, Afghan National Security Forces Development, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, from the Pentagon
- [30 July 12] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [30 July 12] Fiscal Year 2011 Afghanistan Infrastructure Fund Projects Are behind Schedule and Lack Adequate Sustainment Plans
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [30 July 12] Selected Public Diplomacy Awards Mostly Achieved Objectives, but Embassy Can Take Steps to Enhance Grant Management and Oversight
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [11 July 12] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Charles "Mark" Gurganus, Commanding General, ISAF Regional Command-Southwest, and Mohammad Gulab Mangal, Helmand Provincial Governor, from the Pentagon
- [9 July 12] Assessment of U.S. Government and Coalition Efforts to Develop the Afghan Local Police
Inspector General
- [29 June 12] Progress Made Toward Increased Stability under USAID's Afghanistan Stabilization Initiative-East Program but Transition to Long Term Development Efforts Not Yet Achieved
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [29 June 12] Increases in Security Costs Are Likely under the Afghan Public Protection Force; USAID Needs to Monitor Costs and Ensure Unlicensed Security Providers Are Not Used
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [20 June 12] DOD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Richard Cripwell, Director of Strategic Transition Group, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [11 June 12] DOD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command; Deputy Commander, U.S. Forces - Afghanistan, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [7 June 12] Joint Press Conference with Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak
- [7 June 12] Remarks by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta to International Security Assistance Force Joint Command (IJC) Troops in Afghanistan
- [6 June 12] Media Availability with Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta in New Delhi, India
- [23 May 12] DOD News Briefing with Gen. John R. Allen, Commander, International Security Assistance Force, from the Pentagon
- [17 May 12] Better Contract Oversight Could Have Prevented Deficiencies in the Detention Facility in Parwan, Afghanistan
Inspector General
- [13 May 12] Statement by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta on Transition in Afghanistan
- [9 May 12] DOD News Briefing with British Army Lt. Gen. Adrian Bradshaw, Deputy Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [1 May 12] Statement on U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement
Leon E. Panetta, Secretary of Defense
- [1 May 12] Section 1230 Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
Senior Defense Department Official and Senior State Department Official
- [30 April 12] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [30 April 12] USAID Has Disbursed $9.5 Billion for Reconstruction and Funded Some Financial Audits as Required, but Many Audits Face Significant Delays, Accountability Limitations, and Lack of Resources
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [25 April 12] USAID Spent Almost $400 Million on an Afghan Stabilization Project despite Uncertain Results, but Has Taken Steps to Better Assess Similar Efforts
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [18 April 12] Media Availability with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta at the NATO Ministerial
- [18 April 12] Press Release: Statement by the Press Secretary on the Los Angeles Times Story
- [10 April 12] Remarks by Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, and Afghan Interior Minister General Bismellah Khan Mohammadi, at U.S.-Afghanistan Security Consultations Forum
- [April 12] Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan - United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces
- [16 March 12] Press Gaggle with Secretary Leon E. Panetta at Kabul, Afghanistan
- [15 March 12] Tolo TV Interview with Secretary Leon E. Panetta
- [14 March 12] Town Hall Meeting with Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Camp Leatherneck, Helmand, Afghanistan
- [12 March 12] Media Availability with Secretary Leon E. Panetta en route to Manas Transit Facility, Kyrgyzstan
- [11 March 12] Statement by Secretary Leon E. Panetta on the Tragic Incident in Kandahar Province
- [27 Feb 12] DOD News Briefing with George Little, Pentagon Press Secretary, and Capt. John Kirby, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Media Operations, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [22 Feb 12] DOD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Carsten Jacobson, German Army, ISAF Spokesman, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [22 Feb 12] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. David Hook, Royal Marines, Director of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Force Integration Cell, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [21 Feb 12] Statement by Secretary Leon E. Panetta on the Treatment of Religious Materials at Bagram Airbase
- [8 Feb 12] DOD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander, International Security Assistance Force, from the Pentagon
- [2 Feb 12] Defense Secretary Leon Panetta Press Gaggle
- [31 Jan 12] Afghan First Initiative Has Placed Work with Afghan Companies, but Is Affected by Inconsistent Contract Solicitation and Vetting, and Employment Data Is Limited
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [30 Jan 12] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [19 Jan 12] DOD News Briefing with Janan Mosazai, Spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Brig. Gen. H. R. McMaster, Commander, Task Force Shafafiyat (Transparency)
- [12 Jan 12] DOD Improved its Accountability for Vehicles Provided to the Afghan National Security Forces, but Should Follow Up on End-Use Monitoring Findings
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [26 Dec 11] Pakistan/Afghanistan Cross-Border Fire Investigation Report
U.S. Central Command
- [14 Dec 11] Press Conference with Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan
- [8 Dec 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. David Hook (Royal Marines), Director of the International Security Assistance Force's Force Reintegration Cell, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [6 Dec 11] Memorandum for Record: Findings and Recommendations (AR 15-6 Investigation - Credibility Assessment of Allegations of Human Rights Violations Appearing in a Human Rights Watch Report)
Headquarters, U.S. Forces - Afghanistan
- [1 Dec 11] DOD News Briefing with Paul Reid, Senior Civilian Representative, Regional Platform South West, and Michael O'Neill, U.K. Senior Representative in Southern Afghanistan and Head of the Civil-Military Mission and Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), Helmand, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [29 Nov 11] Press Release: Airborne Geophysical Exploration Program Launched in Afghanistan
- [22 Nov 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Daniel B. Allyn, ISAF Regional Commander-East/Commanding General, U.S. Army 1st Cavalry Division, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [2 Nov 11] Progress and State of the Afghan Air Force as it Relates to Stability in Afghanistan
Foreign Press Center briefing by Brig. Gen. Timothy Ray, USAF, Commanding General, NATO Air Training Command - Afghanistan, NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan, and Commander, 438th Air Expeditionary Wing, Kabul, Afghanistan
- [30 Oct 11] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [27 Oct 11] DOD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command/Deputy Commander, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [26 Oct 11] Afghan National Security University Has Experienced Cost Growth and Schedule Delays, and Contract Administration Needs Improvement
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [26 Oct 11] Better Planning and Oversight Could Have Reduced Construction Delays and Costs at the Kabul Military Training Center
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [20 Oct 11] Actions Needed to Better Assess and Coordinate Capacity-Building Efforts at Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [11 Oct 11] DOD News Briefing with Australian Army Maj. Gen. Michael Krause, Deputy Chief of Staff, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command
- [7 Oct 11] Secretary Leon E. Panetta Statement on Operation Enduring Freedom
- [6 Oct 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. John Tooland, Jr., Commander, Regional Command Southwest, and Michael O'Neill, Head of the Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team and UK Senior Civilian Representative in Southern Afghanistan, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [Oct 11] Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
- [26 Sep 11] DOD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell, IV, Commander, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan and Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [15 Sep 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Tim Evans, ISAF Joint Command Chief of Staff, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [8 Sep 11] The U.S. Civilian Uplift in Afghanistan Has Cost Nearly $2 Billion, and State Should Continue to Strengthen Its Management and Oversight of the Funds Transferred to Other Agencies
Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction and the Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of State
- [8 Sep 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Phil Jones, Director, ISAF Force Reintegration Cell, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [25 Aug 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Daniel Allyn, Commander, Regional Command East, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [18 Aug 11] DOD News Briefing with Alisa Stack, Deputy Chief of Staff for Stability Operations, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [10 Aug 11] DOD News Briefing with Gen. John R. Allen, Commander, International Security Assistance Force, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [4 Aug 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. James Terry, Commander, Regional Command South, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [31 July 11] Press Availability, Kabul, Afghanistan
ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [30 July 11] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [22 July 11] The World Bank and the Afghan Government Have Established Mechanisms to Monitor and Account for Funds Contributed to the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, but Some Limitations and Challenges Should Be Addressed
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [20 July 11] Limited Interagency Coordination and Insufficient Controls over U.S. Funds in Afghanistan Hamper U.S. Efforts to Develop the Afghan Financial Sector and Safeguard U.S. Cash
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [20 July 11] Procurement of High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles and Troop Enclosures for the Afghan National Security Forces
Inspector General
- [19 July 11] U.S. Agencies Have Provided Training and Support to Afghanistan's Major Crimes Task Force, but Reporting and Reimbursement Issues Need to be Addressed
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [13 July 11] DOD News Briefing with German Army Maj. Gen. Richard Rossmanith, Deputy Chief of Staff for Stability, International Security Assistance Force, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [11 July 11] NBC Interview with Secretary Leon Panetta
- [10 July 11] Media Availability with Secretary Panetta at Forward Operating Base Dwyer, Afghanistan
- [9 July 11] Media Availability with Secretary Leon E. Panetta at Camp Eggers, Afghanistan
- [7 July 11] DoD and DOS Need Better Procedures to Monitor and Expend DoD Funds for the Afghan National Police Training Program
Joint Audit by the Inspectors General of Department of State and Department of Defense
- [6 July 11] DOD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, Commander, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [29 June 11] USAID’s Kabul Community Development Program Largely Met the Agreement’s Terms, But Progress Toward Long-Term Goals Needs to be Better Tracked
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [22 June 11] Analysis of Recommendations Concerning Contracting in Afghanistan, as Mandated by Section 1219 of the Fiscal Year 2011 NDAA
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [16 June 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. John Tooland, Jr., Commander, Regional Command Southwest, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [14 June 11] Assessment of the U.S. Department of Defense Efforts to Develop an Effective Medical Logistics System within the Afghan National Security Forces
Inspector General
- [10 June 11] The Security and Defense Agenda (Future of NATO)
Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
- [4 June 11] Joint Press Conference with Secretary Robert M. Gates and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, from Kabul, Afghanistan
- [1 June 11] DOD News Briefing with Australian Maj. Gen. Michael Krause, Deputy Chief of Staff, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [23 May 11] DOD News Briefing with Jack Kem, Deputy to the Commander, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan and Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, from the Pentagon
- [19 May 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Jones, Director, Force Reintegration Cell, International Security Assistance Force Headquarters, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [10 May 11] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. John Campbell, Commander, Regional Command East, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [30 April 11] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [29 April 11] Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan and the United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces
[29 April 11] DOD Background Briefing with Senior Defense Official from the Pentagon on the Afghanistan 1230/1231 Report
- [27 April 11] Civil-Military Efforts in Afghanistan
Foreign Press Center briefing by Gen. Richard Mills, former Commander, Regional Command (Southwest) and I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), and Dereck Hogan, Senior Advisor to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [21 April 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Markus Kneip, Commander, Regional Command-North, and Brig. Gen. Sean Mulholland, Deputy Commander, Regional Command-North, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [14 April 11] DOD News Briefing with Col. Arthur Kandarian, Commander, Regional Command South's Task Force Strike and 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, and Afghan Col. Murtaza Sarwari, Commander, 3rd Brigade, 205th Corps, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [24 March 11] DOD News Briefing with Lt. Col. John Walker, Commander, Mehtar Lam Provincial Reconstruction Team, and Mohammad Iqbal Azizi, Governor of Laghman Province, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [11 March 11] Statement to NATO Defense Ministers
Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
- [8 March 11] Media Availability with Secretary Robert M. Gates from COP Kowall, Afghanistan
- [7 March 11] Joint Press Conference with Secretary Robert Gates and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan from Kabul, Afghanistan
- [3 March 11] Special Plans and Operations: Assessment of U.S. Government Efforts to Train, Equip, and Mentor the Expanded Afghan National Police
Inspector General
- [3 March 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Richard Mills, Commander, Regional Command Southwest, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [2 March 11] Improvements Needed in Contract Administration of the Subsistence Prime Vendor Contract for Afghanistan
Inspector General
- [24 Feb 11] DOD News Briefing with Sgt. Maj. Marvin Hill, Senior Enlisted Leader of International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, and Sgt. Maj. Roshan Safi, Sergeant Major of the Afghan National Army, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [10 Feb 11] DOD News Briefing with Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, Commander of Rule of Law Field Force-Afghanistan, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [8 Feb 11] DOD News Briefing with Col. Willard Burleson, Commander, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, and Col. Daniel Williams, Commander of Combat Aviation Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [1 Feb 11] DOD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, Commander, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, from the Pentagon
- [29 Jan 11] Mineral Resource Team 2010 Activities Summary
Task Force for Business and Stability Operations
- [27 Jan 11] Commander's Emergency Response Program in Laghman Province Provided Some Benefits, but Oversight Weaknesses and Sustainment Concerns Led to Questionable Outcomes and Potential Waste
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [27 Jan 11] DoD News Briefing with Cmdr. Benson and Cmdr. Stuessi via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [27 Jan 11] Comments at NATO MCCS Session
ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [26 Jan 11] Inadequate Planning for ANSF Facilities Increases Risks for $11.4 Billion Program
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [25 Jan 11] DOD News Briefing with Michael O'Neill, Britain's Senior Representative in Southern Afghanistan and Head of Provincial Reconstruction Team in Helmand Province, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [13 Jan 11] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. James Terry, Commander, Regional Command South, and Henry Ensher, Senior Civilian Representative, from Afghanistan
- [12 Jan 11] National Security Strategy Update
Foreign Press Center briefing by ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [5 Jan 11] DOD News Briefing with Col. Andrew Poppas, Commander, Task Force Bastogne and 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [4 Jan 11] DOD News Briefing with German Maj. Gen. Hans-Werner Fritz, Commander, Regional Command North, and Col. Sean Mulholland, Deputy Commander, Regional Command North, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [28 Dec 10] DOD News Briefing with Col. Viet Luong, Commander, Task Force Rakkasan and 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [21 Dec 10] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Allvin via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [17 Dec 10] Press Availability with Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry
ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [16 Dec 10] DOD News Briefing with Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright from the Pentagon
- [15 Dec 10] DOD News Briefing with Col. Jeffrey Martindale, Commander, Task Force Raider and 1st Brigade Combat Team, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [8 Dec 10] Joint Press Conference with Secretary Robert M. Gates and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan from Kabul, Afghanistan
- [7 Dec 10] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Richard Mills, Commander, Regional Command Southwest, and Helmand Governor Gulab Mangal via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [6 Dec 10] U.S. Government Efforts to Counter IEDs
Foreign Press Center briefing by LTG Michael L. Oates, Director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO)
- [30 Nov 10] DOD News Briefing with Vice Adm. Robert Harward, Commander, Combined Joint Interagency Task Force 435, from Afghanistan
- [23 Nov 10] DoD News Briefing with Col. Burleson via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [Nov 10] Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
- [10 Nov 10] UCLA Brodie Lecture
ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [10 Nov 10] DOD News Briefing with Col. William Roy, Commander of Task Force Wolverine and 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [4 Nov 10] DOD News Briefing with Col. Donald Galli, Commander of Task Force Falcon and 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [30 Oct 10] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [29 Oct 10] Actions Needed to Mitigate Inconsistencies in and Lack of Safeguards Over U.S. Salary Support to Afghan Government Employees and Technical Advisors
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [28 Oct 10] DOD News Briefing with British Army Maj. Gen. Nick Carter, Commanding General of Regional Command South (RC South) via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [27 Oct 10] DOD, State, and USAID Obligated Over $17.7 Billion to About 7,000 Contractors and Other Entities for Afghanistan Reconstruction During Fiscal Years 2007-2009
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [27 Oct 10] ANP District Headquarters Facilities in Helmand and Kandahar Provinces Have Significant Construction Deficiencies Due to Lack of Oversight and Poor Contractor Performance
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [26 Oct 10] U.S. Civilian Uplift in Afghanistan Is Progressing but Some Key Issues Merit Further Examination as Implementation Continues
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [26 Oct 10] Weaknesses in Reporting and Coordination of Development Assistance and Lack of Provincial Capacity Pose Risks to U.S. Strategy in Nangarhar Province
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [26 Oct 10] DOD News Briefing with Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Joseph Osterman, Commanding General of Task Force Leatherneck and First Marine Division Forward, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [21 Oct 10] DOD News Briefing with Canadian Army Maj. Gen. Stuart Beare, Deputy Commander for Police, NATO Training Mission Afghanistan, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [13 Oct 10] "The Big Interview" - Wall Street Journal
ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [13 Oct 10] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. John Campbell, Commanding General for Regional Command East, and French Army Brig. Gen. Pierre Chavancy, Commanding General for Task Force Lafayette, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [5 Oct 10] Letter from Secretary Gates to Senator Carl Levin in Response to the Senate Armed Services Committee Report on the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors Operating in Afghanistan
- [5 Oct 10] DOD News Briefing with Lindy Cameron, United Kingdom Senior Representative in Southern Afghanistan and Head of the Civil-Military Mission and Provincial Reconstruction Team, Helmand, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [30 Sep 10] DOD News Briefing with Italian Brig. Gen. Claudio Berto, Commanding General for Regional Command West (RC West), and Italian Col. Vito Cracas, Deputy Chief of Staff for Stability Operations, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [21 Sep 10] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Hans-Werner Fritz, Germany, Commanding General, Regional Command-North, and Col. Sean Mulholland, USA, Deputy Commander, Regional Command-North, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [16 Sep 10] DOD News Briefing with Secretary Robert M. Gates and French Minister of Defense Herve Morin
- [15 Sep 10] DOD News Briefing with Col. James Johnson, U.S. Army, Gov. Mohammad Halim Fidai, Wardak Province, Afghanistan, and Col. Aref Alzaben, Jordanian Army, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [15 Sep 10] DOD News Briefing with Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta and Jenny Giunta via Teleconference from Italy
- [9 Sep 10] Lessons Learned in Preparing and Conducting Elections in Afghanistan
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [8 Sep 10] COMISAF's Counterinsurgency (COIN) Contracting Guidance
GEN David Petraeus, USA, Commander, International Security Assistance Force, and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan
- [3 Sep 10] Press Availability with Secretary Robert M. Gates from COP Senjaray, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
- [2 Sep 10] Joint Press Conference with Secretary Robert M. Gates and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan from Kabul, Afghanistan
- [2 Sep 10] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Richard Mills, Commander, Regional Command Southwest, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [30 Aug 10] Observations from Oversight Organizations Impacting Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom Beginning FY 2003 Through FY 2009
Inspector General
- [28 Aug 10] Press Roundtable
Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, and GEN David H. Petraeus, USA, Commander, International Security Assistance Force, and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan
- [23 Aug 10] DoD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, Commander, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [5 Aug 10] U.S. Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan Would Benefit from a Finalized Comprehensive U.S. Anti-Corruption Strategy
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [5 Aug 10] DOD News Briefing with Vice Adm. Robert Harward, Commander, Joint Task Force 435, and Ambassador Hans Klemm, U.S. Embassy Coordinating Director of Rule of Law and Law Enforcement, from Afghanistan
- [1 Aug 10] NBC 'Meet the Press'
ADM Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [1 Aug 10] Press Release: General Petraeus Issues Updated Tactical Directive: Emphasizes "Disciplined Use of Force"
Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force - Afghanistan
- [29 July 10] DoD News Briefing with Secretary Gates and Adm. Mullen from the Pentagon
- [28 July 10] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. John Campbell, Commanding General, Regional Command East, and Mr. Thomas Gibbons, Senior Civilian Representative, at the Pentagon Briefing Room via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [25 July 10] U.S. Embassy Kabul Town Hall
ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [25 July 10] GMIC (Government Media Information Center) Press Availability
ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [22 July 10] ANP Compound at Kandahar Generally Met Contract Terms but Has Project Planning, Oversight, and Sustainability Issues
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [21 July 10] Statement by British Maj. Gen. Nick Carter, Commander, NATO-ISAF Regional Command, from Afghanistan
- [15 July 10] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Richard Mills, Commanding General, Regional Command Southwest, from Afghanistan
- [7 July 10] DOD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. David Rodriguez, Commander, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command, from Afghanistan
- [4 July 10] Letter to the Soldiers, Airmen, Marines, and Civilians of NATO's International Security Assistance Force
GEN David Petraeus, USA, Commander, International Security Assistance Force, and Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan
- [29 June 10] Actions Needed to Improve the Reliability of Afghan Security Force Assessments
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [24 June 10] DOD News Briefing with Secretary Robert M. Gates and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen from the Pentagon
- [22 June 10] Defense Secretary Gates Statement on McChrystal Profile
- [14 June 10] Special Defense Department Briefing from the Pentagon Arlington, Virginia
Paul Brinkley, Director, DoD Task Force for Business and Stability Operations in Afghanistan, Jack Medlin, Regional Specialist, U.S. Geological Survey, International Programs, Kathleen Johnson, Mineral Program Director, U.S. Geological Survey
- [11 June 10] Press Availability with Secretary Robert M. Gates from the NATO Ministerial at NATO Headquarters, Brussels, Belgium
- [10 June 10] DoD Media Roundtable with Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, USA, Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), at the NATO Headquaters in Brussels
- [3 June 10] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, USA, Commander, NATO-ISAF Regional Command East and Combined Joint Task Force-82 (CJTF-82), and Dawn Liberi, Senior Civilian Representative, CJTF-82, at the Pentagon Briefing Room via Teleconference in Afghanistan
- [26 May 10] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Nick Carter, Commander, Regional Command - South, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [24 May 10] Controls Over Funds Appropriated for Assistance to Afghanistan and Iraq Processed Through the Foreign Military Sales Network
Inspector General
- [13 May 10] DOD News Briefing with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, USA, Commander, NATO International Security Assistance Force, from the Pentagon
- [30 April 10] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [28 April 10] DOD Background Briefing with Senior Defense Officials from the Pentagon
- [20 April 10] DOD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Steven Kwast, Commander, 455th Air Expeditionary Wing, U.S. Air Force, from Afghanistan
- [13 April 10] Media Availability with Secretary Robert M. Gates en Route to Lima, Peru
NOTE: Contains the Secretary's remarks on the chain of command and the risks associated with civilian casualties in Afghanistan
- [9 April 10] Afghanistan's Control and Audit Office Requires Operational and Budgetary Independence, Enhanced Authority, and Focused International Assistance to Effectively Prevent and Detect Corruption
Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [2 April 10] DOD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. William Webster, U.S. Army, Commanding General, Third Army, Kuwait, from Kuwait
- [April 10] Report on Progress Toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan and United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces
- [31 March 10] Government Media and Information Center Press Conference
ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [17 March 10] DOD News Briefing with Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, USA, Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), and Ambassador Sedwill, NATO Representative in Afghanistan, from Afghanistan
- [10 March 10] Press Conference with Secretary Robert M. Gates and Afghanistan Minister of Defense Addul Rahim Wardak from Afghanistan
- [9 March 10] Press Availability with Secretary Robert M. Gates from Forward Operating Base Cafferata, Afghanistan
- [8 March 10] Press Conference with Secretary Robert M. Gates and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai from Afghanistan
- [4 March 10] 73rd Annual General Meeting of the Conference of Defense Associations
Remarks by GEN David Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command
- [4 March 10] DOD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, Commander, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, from Afghanistan
- [22 Feb 10] DOD News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen from the Pentagon
NOTE: Discussion of Afghanistan and the ongoing operations in Marjah begins in Admiral Mullen's opening statement
- [18 Feb 10] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Nick Patrick Carter, British Army, Commander, NATO-ISAF Regional Command South, from Afghanistan
- [9 Feb 10] DOD Obligations and Expenditures of Funds Provided to the Department of State for the Training and Mentoring of the Afghan National Police
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and Office of Inspector General, Department of Defense
- [8 Feb 10] A Two-Part Interview with Secretary Robert M. Gates by Greta Van Susteren, Fox News
- [5 Feb 10] Press Conference with Secretary Robert M. Gates from Istanbul, Turkey
- [4 Feb 10] Press Roundtable with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Commander, NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, in Istanbul, Turkey
- [4 Feb 10] DOD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. John Campbell, Commander, 101st Airborne Division, and Maj. Gen. Stephen Layfield, Commander, Joint Warfighting Center, Joint Forces Command, via Teleconference from Ft. Campbell, Ky.
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- [25 Jan 10] Remarks at the House of Commons All-Party Parliamentary Group on Transatlantic Security
William J. Lynn, III, Deputy Secretary of Defense
- [21 Jan 10] Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates Pak TV Interview
- [15 Jan 10] Afghanistan Energy Supply Has Increased but An Updated Master Plan is Needed and Delays and Sustainability Concerns Remain
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [12 Jan 10] DoD News Briefing with Col. Drinkwine from Afghanistan
- [15 Dec 09] DoD News Briefing with Gen. James T. Conway, Commandant of the Marine Corps, at the Pentagon
- [15 Dec 09] National Defense University Pakistan
Remarks by ADM Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the National Defense University, Islamabad, Pakistan
- [14 Dec 09] Press Conference with Royal Netherlands Army Maj. Gen. Mart de Kruif, Former Commander of Regional Command South, Afghanistan
- [14 Dec 09] Kabul Press Conference
ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [10 Dec 09] Press Conference
ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [8 Dec 09] Joint Press Conference with Secretary Robert M. Gates and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai from Kabul, Afghanistan
- [8 Dec 09] Media Availability with Secretary Robert M. Gates en Route to Afghanistan
- [8 Dec 09] U.S. National Security Strategy Update
Foreign Press Center briefing by ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [2 Dec 09] ISAF Commander's Statement Regarding U.S. President's Announcement
GEN Stanley A. McChrystal, Commander, NATO International Security Asssistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan
- [2 Dec 09] Message to the Troops on the Way Ahead
GEN Stanley A. McChrystal, Commander, NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan
- [2 Dec 09] Charlie Rose Show
ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [20 Nov 09] Media Availability with Secretary Gates and Canadian Minister of Defense Peter MacKay
- [4 Nov 09] Government Executives Events Group Discussion: Military Leadership
Remarks by Adm. Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with Tim Clark, Editor-in-Chief, Government Executive Magazine and James Kitfield, National Security and Foreign Affairs Correspondent, the National Journal, at the National Press Club
- [30 Oct 09] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [28 Oct 09] Barriers to Greater Participation by Women in Afghan Elections
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [23 Oct 09] Press Conference with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates During the NATO Defense Ministers Meeting
- [20 Oct 09] Press Availability with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates En Route from Hawaii to Tokyo
- [Oct 09] Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
- [30 Sep 09] Documenting Detention Procedures Will Help Ensure Counter-Narcotics Justice Center is Utilized as Intended
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [30 Sep 09] Special Plans and Operations: Report on the Assessment of U.S. and Coalition Plans to Train, Equip, and Field the Afghan National Security Forces
Inspector General
- [27 Sep 09] Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Interview on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos
- [23 Sep 09] DoD News Briefing with Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell from the DoD Briefing Room, The Pentagon, Arlington Va.
- [22 Sep 09] Strategy and Resources Needed to Sustain Afghan Electoral Capacity
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [15 Sep 09] Senate Armed Services Committee Reconfirmation Hearing
Testimony by Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Armed Services Committee
- [9 Sep 09] Increased Visibility, Monitoring, and Planning Needed for Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [4 Sep 09] Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Interview with Al Jazeera at the Pentagon
- [3 Sep 09] DoD News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen from the Pentagon
- [31 Aug 09] Media Availability with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates at Lockheed Martin Factory, Fort Worth, Texas
NOTE: Remarks on the situation in Afghanistan occur in the middle of the transcript
- [27 Aug 09] Actions Needed to Resolve Construction Delays at the Counter-Narcotics Justice Center
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [18 Aug 09] DoD News Briefing with Australian Brig. Gen. Damian Cantwell, Chief, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Election Task Force and ISAF Spokesman Canadian Brig. Gen. Eric Tremblay from Kabul, Afghanistan
- [13 Aug 09] DoD News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright from the Pentagon
- [12 Aug 09] Afghanistan Security Forces Fund Phase III - Accountability for Equipment Purchased for the Afghanistan National Army
Inspector General
- [12 Aug 09] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Walter Givhan, Commander, Combined Air Power Transition Force-Afghanistan, from Afghanistan
- [5 Aug 09] Remarks on National Public Radio's Morning Edition
Adm. Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- [4 Aug 09] DoD New Briefing with Dutch Army Brig. Gen. Tom Middendorp, Outgoing Commander, Task Force Uruzgan in Southern Afghanistan, at the Pentagon Briefing Room, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [4 Aug 09] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander, Combined Joint Task Force 82, and Commanding General, 82nd Airborne Division U.S. Army, at the Pentagon Briefing Room, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [30 July 09] A Better Management Information System is Needed to Promote Information Sharing, Effective Planning, and Coordination of Afghanistan Reconstruction Activities
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [30 July 09] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [20 July 09] DoD News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen, from the Pentagon
- [8 July 09] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, Commander, Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan, from Afghanistan
- [7 July 09] CSIS: Statesmen's Forum: "Security and Stability in the Broader Middle East: A Comprehensive Approach"
Remarks by Adm. Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies NOTE: Remarks on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan can be found in the second half of the transcript
- [6 July 09] UN Action Urged to Strengthen Afghanistan Capacity to Support Future Elections
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [6 July 09] Tactical Directive
Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force, Kabul, Afghanistan NOTE: Contains the releasable portions of a Tactical Directive issued by General McChrystal for the guidance of ISAF and U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A)
- [25 June 09] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Mart De Kruif, Commander, NATO-ISAF Regional Command South, Royal Netherlands Army, at the Pentagon Briefing Room via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [23 June 09] DoD News Briefing with Col. Spiszer, Commander, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, at the Pentagon Briefing Room via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [18 June 09] USCENTCOM's Unclassified Executive Summary: U.S. Central Command Investigation into Civilian Casualties in Farah Province, Afghanistan on 4 May 2009
U.S. Central Command
- [18 June 09] Press Conference with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen
NOTE: Concerns the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and the U.S. partnership with NATO forces in Afghanistan
- [12 June 09] Press Conference with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates following NATO Ministerial Meetings in Brussels, Belgium
- [2 June 09] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser, Commander, Combined Joint Task Force - 101 Afghanistan, from Afghanistan
- [June 09] Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
Report to Congress
- [19 May 09] Contract Oversight Capabilities of the Defense Department's Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A) Need Strengthening
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [18 May 09] The Future of Global Engagements and Defense Budget Priorities
Remarks by Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Brookings Institution
- [11 May 09] Press Conference with Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Leadership Changes in Afghanistan from the Pentagon
- [7 May 09] Press Conference with Secretary Robert Gates from Kabul, Afghanistan
- [5 May 09] Media Availability with Secretary Robert M. Gates at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- [30 April 09] Quarterly and Semiannual Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [29 April 09] Secretary Robert M. Gates Interview with CNN
- [29 April 09] DoD News Briefing with Gen. James Conway, Commandant of the Marine Corps, at the Pentagon
- [22 April 09] DoD Briefing with Maj. Gen. Michael S. Tucker, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, International Security Assistance Force, and Deputy Commander for Operations, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, from Afghanistan
- [21 April 09] U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Remarks by Michèle Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, at Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [7 April 09] Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Interview with Judy Woodruff, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
- [April 09] United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghan National Security Forces
- [31 March 09] Secretary Robert Gates Interview with Afghan TV
- [31 March 09] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Formica, Commanding General, Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan, from Kabul
- [20 March 09] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Mart de Kruif, Commander, Regional Command South Afghanistan, from Afghanistan
- [20 March 09] DoD News Briefing with Col. Thomas O'Donovan, Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan Engineer District, at the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington Va.
- [11 March 09] Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Interview with Tavis Smiley
- [10 March 09] Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Interview on All Things Considered NPR
- [6 March 09] DoD News Briefing with Colonel John P. Johnson, Commander, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, at the Pentagon Briefing Room via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [5 March 09] Media Stakeout with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Candadian Minister of Defense Peter Mackay outside the Pentagon, Arlington, Va.
- [3 March 09] Media Available with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and French Minister of Defense Herve Morin
NOTE: Discussion of international efforts in Afghanistan occurs in the middle of the transcript
- [18 Feb 09] Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates Enroute to Krakow
- [18 Feb 09] DoD News Briefing with Gen. David McKiernan, Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan and NATO's International Security Assistance Force, from the Pentagon
- [17 Feb 09] Press Release: DoD Announces Afghanistan Force Deployment
- [8 Feb 09] The Future of the Alliance and the Mission in Afghanistan
Remarks by GEN. David H. Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command, at the 45th Munich Security Conference
- [4 Feb 09] DoD News Briefing with Col. Spellmon from Afghanistan
- [30 Jan 09] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [27 Jan 09] Testimony by Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense, to the Senate Armed Services Committee
- [22 Jan 09] DoD News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen
NOTE: Discussion of need for additional troops in Afghanistan and difference in goals for Afghanistan between the Bush and Obama Administrations begins at the midpoint of the transcript
- [22 Jan 09] DoD News Briefing with Secretary of the Army Pete Geren, Director, Army National Guard, Lt. Gen. Clyde Vaughn, Cdr, Texas Agricultural Team Army Col. Stan Poe, and Sultan Hussein Abasyar, Director of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
- [Jan 09] Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
- [11 Dec 08] Media Availability with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates from Kandahar, Afghanistan
- [5 Dec 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Tucker, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations for ISAF, Deputy Commander for Operations, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, from Afghanistan at the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington VA
- [25 Nov 08] Foreign Press Center Briefing with Maj. Gen. Robert Cone, Commander, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A)
- [21 Nov 08] DoD News Briefing with Colonel John P. Johnson, Commander, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, from Afghanistan, at the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington, VA
- [18 Nov 08] DoD News Briefing with Colonel John Spiszer, Commander, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Via Teleconference from Afghanistan, at the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington, VA
- [12 Nov 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Robert Cone, Commanding General, Combined Security Transition Command, from Afghanistan
- [30 Oct 08] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- [29 Oct 08] DoD News Briefing with Press Secretary Geoff Morrell from the Pentagon
NOTE: Second half of the transcript concerns the Taliban and the situation in Afghanistan
- [24 Oct 08] Assessment of Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives Control and Accountability; Security Assistance; and Sustainment for the Afghan National Security Forces
Office of Special Plans and Operations, Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense
- [15 Oct 08] Dean Acheson Lecture - U.S. Institute of Peace
Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
- [1 Oct 08] DoD News Briefing with Gen. McKiernan from the Pentagon
- [26 Sep 08] DoD Briefing with Lt Col Allison from the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington, VA and Mr. Shawn Waddoups, Via Teleconference from Afghanistan
- [23 Sep 08] Update on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Statement by Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense, before the Senate Armed Services Committee
- [18 Sep 08] Roundtable with Defense Secretary Gates from London, United Kingdom
- [17 Sep 08] Press Availability with Afghan Press
Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
- [15 Sep 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Lindell from Afghanistan
- [5 Sep 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Schloesser from Afghanistan
- [27 Aug 08] DoD News Briefing with Gen. Conway from the Pentagon
- [18 July 08] Challenges Impacting Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom Reported by Major Oversight Organizations Beginning FY 2003 through FY 2007
Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense
- [24 June 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Schloesser from Afghanistan
- [17 June 08] DoD News Briefing with Geoff Morrell from the Pentagon, Arlington, Va.
- [13 June 08] DoD News Briefing with Gen. McNeill from the Pentagon
- [13 June 08] Press Conference with Defense Secretary Gates at NATO Headquarters, Brussels
- [June 08] Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
Report to Congress
- [June 08] United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces
Report to Congress
- [29 April 08] Media Availability with Secretary Gates in Mexico City, Mexico
- [18 April 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Cone
- [7 April 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Rodriguez from Afghanistan
- [1 April 08] Media Availability with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Danish Minister of Defense Soren Gade
- [28 March 08] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Livingston
- [26 March 08] DoD News Briefing with Col. Schweitzer and Sgt. Maj. Flowers
- [27 Feb 08] DoD News Briefing with Col. Stevens from Aghanistan
- [26 Feb 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Rodriguez from Aghanistan
- [19 Feb 08] DoD News Briefing with Col. Johnson
- [10 Feb 08] Munich Conference on Security Policy
Remarks as Delivered by Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
- [8 Feb 08] DoD News Briefing with Col. Klingaman from Kabul, Afghanistan
- [6 Feb 08] DoD News Briefing with Gen. McNeill
- [5 Feb 08] DoD Support to NATO International Security Assistance Force
Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense
- [24 Jan 08] DoD Press Briefing with Brig. Gen. Lindell
- [23 Jan 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Rodriguez
- [17 Jan 08] Media Roundtable with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James E. Cartwright
- [15 Jan 08] DoD News Briefing with Press Secretary Geoff Morrell
- [8 Jan 08] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Votel
- [2 Jan 08] DoD News Briefing with Col. Schweitzer
- [11 Dec 07] House Armed Services Committee on Afghanistan
Testimony by Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
- [30 Nov 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Daly and Maj. Gen. Ali from Afghanistan
- [9 Nov 07] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Livingston from Afghanistan
- [31 Oct 07] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Anderson
- [24 Oct 07] Media Roundtable with Secretary Gates from Noordwijk, Netherlands
- [18 Oct 07] DoD Press Briefing with Maj. Gen. Cone and Gen. Wardak
- [17 Oct 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Chip Preysler from Afghanistan
- [10 Oct 07] DoD News Briefing with Gen. Bantz Craddock, Commander, European Command
- [2 Oct 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Ives, Commander, Task Force Cincinnatus, Combined Joint Task Force 82
- [5 Sep 07] DoD News Briefing with Cdr. Adams, Commander Khowst Provinical Reconstruction Team and Governor Jamal, Governor, Khowst Province, Afghanistan Arsala Jamal
- [22 Aug 07] DoD News Briefing with Lt. Col. Phillips from Afghanistan
- [25 July 07] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Rodriguez from Afghanistan
- [July 07] Interagency Assessment of the Counternarcotics Program in Afghanistan
Inspectors General, U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Defense
- [29 June 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Bulen at the Pentagon
- [28 June 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Ives and Lt. Col. Kim
- [20 June 07] DoD Briefing with Col. Schweitzer and Maj. Gen. Khaliq from Afghanistan
- [5 June 07] DoD News Briefing with Gen. Dan McNeill via Videoconference from Afghanistan
Commanding General, NATO's International Security Assistance Force
- [5 June 07] DoD Press Briefing with Secretary Gates and President Hamid Karzai from Kabul, Afghanistan
- [8 May 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Nicholson from Afghanistan
- [30 April 07] DoD News Briefing with Royal Netherlands Army Maj. Gen. Van Loon from the Pentagon
- [24 April 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Schweitzer from Afghanistan
- [18 April 07] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel from Afghanistan
- [27 March 07] A Comprehensive Approach to Modern Insurgency: Afghanistan and Beyond
Remarks by Eric Edelman, Under Secretary for Policy, to the NATO Conference on a Comprehensive Approach to Afghanistan NOTE: This document opens in Microsoft Word
- [26 Jan 07] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Freakley from Afghanistan
- [17 Jan 07] Press Availability with Secretary Gates, General Pace, and General Eikenberry
- [16 Jan 07] Press Conference with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Following Meeting with President Karzai
- [9 Jan 07] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Robert Durbin and Minister Abdul Hadir Khalid from the Pentagon
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Department of State
- [current] U.S. Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan
- [current] Afghanistan Country Page
- [19 Dec 12] Remarks at a Security Council Debate on Afghanistan
Rosemary A. DiCarlo, U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [12 Dec 12] Recent Incidents of Violence Against Women in Afghanistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [5 Dec 12] Press Availability Following Ministerial Meetings at NATO Headquarters
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [3 Oct 12] Secretary Clinton Hosts the U.S.-Afghanistan Bilateral Commission
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, and Zalmai Rassoul, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan
- [3 Oct 12] Press Release: Joint Statement on the Inaugural Meeting of the U.S.-Afghanistan Bilateral Commission
- [9 Aug 12] Death of USAID Officer in Afghanistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [8 July 12] Intervention at the Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [8 July 12] Press Release: Joint Statement by U.S. Secretary of State Clinton, Afghanistan Foreign Minister Rassoul, and Pakistan Foreign Minister Khar at the First Ministerial-Level Core Group Trilateral Meeting
- [8 July 12] Fact Sheet: July 7-9 Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan
- [8 July 12] Background Briefing on the Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan
Senior State Department Official
- [7 July 12] Remarks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [7 July 12] Fact Sheet: Major Non-NATO Ally Status for Afghanistan
- [6 July 12] Unsung in Afghanistan
Op-ed by Ryan C. Crocker, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
- [3 July 12] Remarks on the State of Afghanistan
Alex Thier, Director of the Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, U.S. Agency for International Development
- [July 12] Fact Sheet: July 7-9 Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan
U.S. Agency for International Development
- [27 June 12] Remarks at the Security Council Open Debate on Afghanistan
Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [18 June 12] Fact Sheet: U.S.-Russia Cooperation on Afghanistan
- [14 June 12] Remarks at the "Heart of Asia" Ministerial
William J. Burns, Deputy Secretary of State
- [4 May 12] Fact Sheet: Corrections Programs in Afghanistan
- [4 May 12] Fact Sheet: Rule of Law Programs in Afghanistan
- [4 May 12] Fact Sheet: Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs' Counternarcotics Programs in Afghanistan
- [27 April 12] Trilateral Core Group Press Availability with Pakistani Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani and Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister Javed Ludin
Marc Grossman, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [18 April 12] Remarks with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [16 April 12] UN Security Council Press Statement on Afghanistan
Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [10 April 12] Prospects for Peace in Afghanistan
Remarks by Marc Grossman, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, at the United States Institute of Peace
- [3 April 12] Remarks to the World Affairs Council 2012 NATO Conference
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [26 March 12] Statement by the U.S. at the 5th Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan (RECCA)
Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [25 March 12] Opening Statement: Afghanistan-Pakistan-U.S. Core Group Press Availability
Marc Grossman, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [21 March 12] Remarks with Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Zalmai Rassoul after their Meeting
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [20 March 12] Remarks at a Security Council Debate on Afghanistan
Rosemary DiCarlo, U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [23 Feb 12] Qu'ran Desecration in Afghanistan
Foreign Press Center briefing by Haris Tarin, Director of the Washington, D.C. Office of the Muslim Public Affairs Council
- [16 Feb 12] Third Ministerial of the Paris Pact Initiative
William J. Burns, Deputy Secretary of State
- [12 Jan 12] Remarks with Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State NOTE: The Secretary's reaction to a video depicting U.S. Marines apparently desecrating the bodies of dead enemy combatants occurs in the approximate middle of the transcript
- [19 Dec 11] Remarks at a Security Council Debate on Afghanistan
Rosemary DiCarlo, U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [6 Dec 11] Ashura Holy Day Suicide Bombings in Afghanistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [5 Dec 11] Remarks at Afghanistan Conference First Working Session
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [5 Dec 11] Remarks at the Bonn Conference Center
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [5 Dec 11] Remarks at Breakfast with Afghan Civil Society Representatives
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [3 Dec 11] Press Release: U.S. and Afghanistan Announce $19.2 Million in Good Performers Initiative Awards for Provincial Counternarcotics Achievements
- [4 Nov 11] Release of the Status Report: Afghanistan and Pakistan Civilian Engagement
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [2 Nov 11] Remarks at Istanbul Conference for Afghanistan
William J. Burns, Deputy Secretary of State
- [2 Nov 11] Background Briefing: Senior State Department Official on Afghan Meeting in Istanbul
- [2 Nov 11] Press Statement: United States Welcomes Istanbul Conference for Afghanistan Declaration
- [Nov 11] Status Report: Afghanistan and Pakistan Civilian Engagement
Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [27 Oct 11] Testimony on Afghanistan and Pakistan
Statement by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- [20 Oct 11] Remarks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [19 Oct 11] Background Briefing: Senior State Department Officials on Afghanistan
- [29 Sep 11] The United States' "New Silk Road" Strategy: What Is It? Where Is It Headed?
Remarks by Robert D. Hormats, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs, at the SAIS Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and CSIS Forum
- [27 Sep 11] Press Statement: Roadside Bomb Attack in Afghanistan
- [23 Sep 11] Press Release: United States Government Allocates $268 Million for Joint Afghan Justice and Counternarcotics Programs
- [23 Sep 11] U.S. Policy Priorities in South and Central Asia
Foreign Press Center briefing by Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [22 Sep 11] Remarks at the New Silk Road Ministerial Meeting
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [22 Sep 11] Remarks at the World Bank High-Level Meeting on Afghanistan
Thomas Nides, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
- [22 Sep 11] Press Release: Joint Statement of the Co-Chairs of the Ministerial Meeting on the New Silk Road
- [8 Sep 11] The U.S. Civilian Uplift in Afghanistan Has Cost Nearly $2 Billion, and State Should Continue to Strengthen Its Management and Oversight of the Funds Transferred to Other Agencies
Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction and the Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of State
- [8 Sep 11] Press Statement: U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Discussions
- [Aug 11] DynCorp Operations and Maintenance Support at Camp Falcon in Kabul, Afghanistan
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of State and Broadcasting Board of Governors
- [12 July 11] Assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [11 July 11] Press Statement: Recent Afghanistan-Pakistan Cross-Border Incidents
- [7 July 11] DoD and DOS Need Better Procedures to Monitor and Expend DoD Funds for the Afghan National Police Training Program
Joint Audit by the Inspectors General of Department of State and Department of Defense
- [6 July 11] Remarks at a Security Council Debate on Afghanistan and UNAMA
Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [23 June 11] The Way Forward in Afghanistan
Statement by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [17 June 11] Press Statement: United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1988 and 1989
- [13 June 11] Press Statement: Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement
- [1 June 11] Letter to Senator John Kerry, Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Re: "Evaluating U.S. Foreign Assistance to Afghanistan"
Rajiv Shah, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
- [27 April 11] Civil-Military Efforts in Afghanistan
Foreign Press Center briefing by Gen. Richard Mills, former Commander, Regional Command (Southwest) and I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), and Dereck Hogan, Senior Advisor to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [22 March 11] President Karzai's Transition Announcement
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [17 March 11] Remarks at a Security Council Debate on UNAMA and Afghanistan
Rosemary DiCarlo, U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [16 March 11] Review of USAID/Afghanistan's Bank Supervision Assistance Activities and the Kabul Bank Crisis
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Agency for International Development
- [18 Feb 11] Remarks at the Launch of the Asia Society's Series of Richard C. Holbrooke Memorial Addresses
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [29 Jan 11] Administrator's Stabilization Guidance
Rajiv Shah, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
- [26 Jan 11] Press Statement: Inauguration of the Afghan Parliament
- [16 Dec 10] Remarks on the Afghanistan and Pakistan Annual Review
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, Frank Ruggiero, Acting Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Alex Thier, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Afghanistan and Pakistan, U.S. Agency for International Development
- [16 Dec 10] Press Briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [12 Nov 10] Press Release: Joint Statement on United States-Kazakhstan Air Transit Agreement
- [10 Nov 10] Press Release: U.S. and Afghanistan Announce $25.6 Million in Good Performers Initiative Awards for Provincial Counternarcotics Achievements
- [4 Nov 10] Statement on the General Assembly Resolution on the Situation in Afghanistan
Rosemary DiCarlo, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [29 Oct 10] Special Briefing on Trip to Afghanistan
Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [14 Oct 10] Remarks with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [14 Oct 10] Press Release: U.S. Pledges Additional $1 Million to Help Displaced Afghans in Pakistan and Their Host Communities
- [29 Sep 10] Remarks at Afghanistan Minerals Roadshow
Robert D. Hormats, Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs
- [29 Sep 10] Remarks at a Security Council Debate on Afghanistan and UNAMA
Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [31 Aug 10] Killing of Parliamentary Candidate and Election Workers in Afghanistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [9 Aug 10] Press Availability on Relief Workers Killed in Afghanistan
Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [8 Aug 10] Killing of Medical Aid Workers in Afghanistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [22 July 10] Debt Relief Signing Ceremony
Karl W. Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
- [22 July 10] Press Release: United States, Afghanistan Sign Debt Relief Agreement
- [20 July 10] Intervention at Kabul Conference
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [20 July 10] Gaggle with Traveling Press
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [13 July 10] Special Briefing on Upcoming Kabul Conference
Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [30 June 10] Remarks at a Security Council Debate on Afghanistan and UNAMA
Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [9 June 10] Op-Ed on U.S.-Russia Cooperation on Afghanistan
Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [4 June 10] Statement on the Conclusion of the Consultative Peace Jirga
U.S. Embassy Kabul
- [27 May 10] Statement on Combating Drug Trafficking
Ian C. Kelly, U.S. Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
- [13 May 10] Remarks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a Moderated Conversation
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [13 May 10] Remarks with Afghan Women Ministers Before their Meeting
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [11 May 10] Remarks at Reception in Honor of Afghan President Hamid Karzai
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [11 May 10] U.S.-Afghanistan Bilateral Discussions
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, and Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan
- [10 May 10] Preview of the Washington Visit of Afghanistan President Karzai
Foreign Press Center briefing by Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [23 April 10] Press Availability in Tallinn
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [19 April 10] The Rehearsal of Concept Drill in Kabul, Upcoming Visit of President Karzai, and U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue Follow-Up
Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [16 April 10] On-the-Record-Briefing on Respective Trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, and Rajiv Shah, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
- [11 April 10] Remarks to the Press at Conclusion of Rehearsal of Concept (ROC) Drill
Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, GEN David Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command, and Rajiv Shah, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
- [1 April 10] Readout on Recent Travels to India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Belgium
Foreign Press Center briefing by Robert O. Blake, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [29 March 10] Media Roundtable
Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [24 March 10] Press Release: U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy for Afghanistan
- [18 March 10] Remarks on the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [17 March 10] Press Release: U.S. Joins Other Creditors, Cancels Afghanistan Debts Owed to Paris Club Members
- [2 March 10] Briefing by Special Representative Holbrooke on his Recent Trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Georgia and Germany
Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [March 10] International Narcotics Control Strategy Report
Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
- [9 Feb 10] DOD Obligations and Expenditures of Funds Provided to the Department of State for the Training and Mentoring of the Afghan National Police
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, and Office of Inspector General, Department of Defense
- [3 Feb 10] Readout on the January 28 London Conference on Afghanistan
Foreign Press Center briefing by Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [3 Feb 10] Briefing on Recent Trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Tom Vilsack, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- [Feb 10] Report of Inspection: Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors
- [29 Jan 10] Press Release: Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls: Keys to a Better Future for Afghanistan
- [28 Jan 10] Remarks at the International Conference on Afghanistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [7 Jan 10] U.S. Government Agriculture Sector Programs in Afghanistan and Upcoming Travel to the Region
Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, Rajiv Shah, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, and Richard C. Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [7 Jan 10] Role of the International Network of SRAPs
Foreign Press Center briefing by Daniel Feldman, Deputy to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP)
- [6 Jan 10] Remarks on the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Rosemary A. DiCarlo, U.S. Alternate Representative to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs
- [Jan 10] Afghanistan and Pakistan Regional Stabilization Strategy
Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [18 Dec 09] Use of Contractors to Train Afghan National Police
Statement by David T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- [17 Dec 09] Afghanistan and the United States: A Long-Term Partnership
Remarks by Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- [17 Dec 09] In the Waves of Liberty
Remarks by Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, with Radio Azadi
- [10 Dec 09] Response to ODIHR Final Report on Elections in Afghanistan
Carol Fuller, Chargé d'Affaires of the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- [9 Dec 09] The New Afghanistan Strategy: The View from the Ground
Statement by Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- [9 Dec 09] The U.S.-Europe Partnership Under the Obama Administration
Remarks by Philip H. Gordon, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, at the Council on Foreign Relations NOTE: First half of the transcript concerns U.S.-European cooperation in Afghanistan
- [7 Dec 09] Remarks at the American Enterprise Institute
Paul Jones, Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [4 Dec 09] Remarks at Press Conference at NATO Headquarters
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [3 Dec 09] Afghanistan: Assessing the Road Ahead
Opening Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- [3 Dec 09] Briefing En Route Brussels, Belgium
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [2 Dec 09] U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Opening Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee
- [2 Dec 09] Administration's Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Opening Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, before the Senate Armed Services Committee
- [1 Dec 09] Message to the People of Afghanistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [Dec 09] Status of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Counternarcotics Programs in Afghanistan - Performance Audit
Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors
- [23 Nov 09] Special Briefing on Secretary Clinton's Recent Trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Richard Holbrooke, Sepcial Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [19 Nov 09] Press Roundtable at Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck Center for Complex Operations
Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
- [19 Nov 09] Town Hall with Students Staff and Trainers at Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck Center for Complex Operations
Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
- [19 Nov 09] Press Conference at U.S. Embassy Kabul
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [19 Nov 09] Address to U.S. and International Troops in Afghanistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [5 Nov 09] Remarks with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle after their Meeting
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [3 Nov 09] Press Roundtable
Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
- [1 Nov 09] Afghanistan Election
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [28 Oct 09] Attack on a Guest House in Kabul
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [28 Oct 09] Statement on the Attack in Kabul
Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [26 Oct 09] Briefing on Progress Made in Civilian Hiring in Afghanistan
Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
- [23 Oct 09] On-the-Record Briefing
Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [20 Oct 09] Afghan Elections
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [16 Oct 09] Secretary Clinton's Interview with Jill Dougherty of CNN
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [14 Oct 09] Statement in Response to LTG James Duttan, Deputy ISAF Commander
Carol Fuller, Chargé d'Affaires of the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- [6 Oct 09] Interview with Katie Couric of CBS Evening News
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [21 Sep 09] Interview with Margaret Warner of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [14 Sep 09] NATO in a New Era of Engagement
Remarks by Ivo H. Daalder, U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), at Chatham House
- [11 Sep 09] September 11 Commemoration Ceremony at U.S. Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan
Remarks by Karl W. Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, and Rangin Spanta, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- [11 Sep 09] Briefing on Recent Trip to South Asia
Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
- [9 Sep 09] The Obama Administration's Policy on South Asia
Remarks by Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
- [3 Sep 09] NATO in Afghanistan: A New Approach to Operations
Remarks by Ivo H. Daalder, U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), to the Netherlands Atlantic Commission at the Hague
- [17 Aug 09] Afghanistan Elections
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [1 July 09] Remarks at the Transatlantic Forum
Ivo H. Daalder, U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) NOTE: Second half of the transcript concerns NATO's role in Afghanistan
- [30 June 09] Remarks During a Security Council Debate on the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [30 June 09] Remarks on Recent Visit to Afghanistan and the U.S. Commitment to Afghan Women
Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
- [10 June 09] Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard C. Holbrooke on His Recent Travels to the Region
- [8 June 09] A Full and Urgent Agenda for NATO in the 21st Century
Ivo H. Daalder, U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) NOTE: Third section of the speech concerns NATO's role in Afghanistan
- [29 May 09] Press Release: Memorandum of Agreement Signed with Afghanistan
- [8 May 09] Press Release: U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Consultations
- [6 May 09] Remarks on Trilateral Consultaitons with Afghanistan and Pakistan
White House Briefing by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [6 May 09] U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Consultations II
Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari
- [5 May 09] Press Statement: Joint Investigation into Reported Civilian Casualties
- [30 April 09] Press Release: U.S. Department of State Delivers $5 Million in New Mine Action Aid for Afghanistan
- [31 March 09] Remarks at the International Conference on Afghanistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [31 March 09] Press Availability Following International Conference on Afghanistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [31 March 09] Remarks with Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [30 March 09] Press Statement: Afghanistan Supreme Court Ruling
- [27 March 09] Interview with BBC Regarding Afghanistan and Pakistan
Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs
- [20 March 09] The Hague Conference on Afghanistan
Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [19 March 09] Statement on the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
Rosemary DiCarlo, U.S. Alternate Representative to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs
- [18 March 09] Remarks with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Miliband
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [4 March 09] Press Statement: Decision by Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan
- [March 09] Assessment of Corruption in Afghanistan
United States Agency for International Development
- [28 Feb 09] Press Statement on President Karzai's Decree
- [26 Feb 09] Strategic Partnership with Afghanistan
Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, with Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta
- [26 Feb 09] U.S.-Pakistan-Afghanistan Trilateral Meetings To Be Held on a Regular Basis
Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, at the Trilateral Meeting with Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta and Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi
- [18 Feb 09] Special Envoy Holbrooke's Interview by Judy Woodruff of NewsHour
- [6 Feb 09] Special Representative Holbrooke's Role in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
- [23 Jan 09] Fact Sheet: U.S. Conventional Weapons Destruction Program in Afghanistan
- [22 Jan 09] Announcement of Appointment of Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell and Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke
Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, Joe Biden, Vice President, George Mitchell, Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, and Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [7 Jan 09] U.S.-Afghanistan Relations
Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [19 Nov 08] Media Note: U.S. Support to Afghan Refugees and Returnees
- [8 Nov 08] U.S. Committed to Afghanistan
Remarks by Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [30 Oct 08] Remarks with BBC World Service on Afghanistan and Pakistan
Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [27 Oct 08] Progress in Afghanistan: U.S. Releases New Poppy Cultivation Data
Foreign Press Center briefing by John Walters, Director, White House Office of Drug Control Policy, Ashraf Haidari, Political Counselor for the Embassy of Afghanistan, Michele Leonhart, Acting DEA Administrator, Bill McGlynn, State Department International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau, and Brigadier General Joseph Callahan, Joint Staff
- [14 Oct 08] Statement by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Permanent Representative, on UNAMA (United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan), in the Security Council
- [9 Oct 08] Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations with the U.S.
Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [25 Sep 08] Remarks with Afghanistan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta after their Meeting
John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State
- [25 Sep 08] Media Note: United States-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Joint Statement
- [25 Sep 08] Fact Sheet: United States-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership
- [10 Sep 08]Press Statement: Afghanistan National Army Expansion
- [8 Sep 08] Afghanistan's Communications Revolution
Op-Ed by David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, and Amir Zai Sangin, Afghanistan's Minister of Communications and Information Technology
- [27 Aug 08] Fact Sheet: Update on Counternarcotics in Afghanistan - August 2008 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Poppy Cultivation Survey
- [18 June 08] Special Briefing on the International Conference in Support of Afghanistan
Remarks by USAID Administrator and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood
- [13 June 08] Pakistan/Afghanistan - U.S. Relations
Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [12 June 08] Remarks at Afghanistan Donors' Conference
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
- [12 June 08] Special Briefing by USAID Administrator Henrietta Ford and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood
- [12 June 08] Media Note: Summary of U.S. Assistance: International Conference in Support of Afghanistan
- [10 June 08] Fact Sheet: Total U.S. Security and Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan
- [10 June 08] Briefing on the International Conference in Support of Afghanistan
Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [4 June 08] Fact Sheet: U.S. Commitment to Afghan Women: The U.S.-Afghan Women's Council
- [13 May 08] Remarks with Afghanistan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta at the Signing Ceremony after their Meeting
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
- [28 April 08] Remarks with the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Afghanistan Kai Eide after Their Meeting
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
- [14 April 08] Supporting Afghanistan
Remarks by Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [20 March 08] Afghanistan's New Deal
Op-Ed by Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [20 March 08] Remarks on the Renewal of the Mandate for UNAMA and the Situation in Somalia
Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
- [12 March 08] Remarks by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Permanent Representative, on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, to the Security Council
- [11 March 08] Fact Sheet: Fighting the Opium Trade in Afghanistan: Myths, Facts, and Sound Policy
Joint Statement by the United States and the United Kingdom
- [7 Feb 08] Remarks with UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
- [7 Feb 08] Remarks with UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband at Kandahar Air Base
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
- [7 Feb 08] Briefing with UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband enroute Afghanistan
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
- [6 Feb 08] Remarks with UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
- [4 Feb 08] Afghanistan and NATO: Why They Both Matter
Remarks by Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, to the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
- [1 Feb 08] The NATO Emerging in Afghanistan
Op-Ed by Victoria Nuland, U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- [2 Jan 08] Fact Sheet: Civilian Police and Rule of Law Programs
- [13 Dec 07] Remarks on Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
- [16 Nov 07] Media Note: Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan
- [4 Oct 07] Counternarcotics Strategy and Police Training in Afghanistan
Thomas A. Schweich, Acting Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
- [14 Sep 07] Why Helping Afghanistan Matters
Speech by Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, to the Atlantic Council of Finland
- [11 Sep 07] Press Roundtable in Afghanistan
John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary
- [6 Sep 07] Remarks to the Press: Discussing Afghanistan
Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [29 Aug 07] The Counternarcotics Situation in Afghanistan
Thomas A. Schweich, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
- [9 Aug 07] On-the-Record Briefing on the Release of a Comprehensive New U.S. Government Implementation Plan to Control Narcotics in Afghanistan
John P. Walters, Director of National Drug Control Policy, and Thomas Schweich, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
- [August 07] U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy for Afghanistan
- [2 Aug 07] On-the-Record Briefing on Afghanistan
Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [23 July 07] The Passing of Muhammad Zahir Shah, Former King of Afghanistan
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
- [25 June 07] A Comprehensive Approach to Counternarcotics in Afghanistan
Foreign Press Center briefing by John P. Walters, Director of the White House Office of Drug Control Policy, and Kim Howell, Minister of State, Foreign Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom
- [14 May 07] Roundtable with East-West Center Journalists Tour
Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [22 March 07] South and Central Asia Regional Update
Foreign Press Center briefing by a Senior State Department Official
- [20 March 07] Statement by Ambassador Jackie Sanders, U.S. Alternative Representative to the UN for Special Political Affairs, at the Security Council Open Meeting on the Situation in Afghanistan
- [8 March 07] Moving Forward in Afghanistan
Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
- [30 Jan 07] Overall U.S. Effort in Afghanistan
Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, Ronald E. Neumann, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, and Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, Commanding General of the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan
- [26 Jan 07] Fulfilling the Commitment to Success in Afghanistan
Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
- [26 Jan 07] On-the-Record Briefing on Afghanistan
R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State, and John Fox, Director of the Office of Afghanistan Affairs
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Other Policy Sources
- [current] USAID in Afghanistan
- [current] Export.Gov/Afghanistan
Afghanistan Investment and Reconstruction Task Force, U.S. Department of Commerce
- [14 Oct 11] Message from the Director: Setting the Record Straight on Our Afghanistan Analysis
David H. Petraeus, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
- [Aug 11] Transforming Wartime Contracting: Controlling Costs, Reducing Risks - Final Report to Congress
Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- [3 June 11] Sustainability: Hidden Costs Risk New Waste
Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- [25 April 11] Implementing Improvements to Defense Wartime Contracting
Hearing before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- [14 Feb 11] Recurring Problems in Afghan Construction, Part 2
Hearing before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- [24 Jan 11] Recurring Problems in Afghan Construction
Hearing before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- [1 Jan 11] Department of Homeland Security Press Release: Readout of Secretary Napolitano's Meeting with Afghan President Karzai and Minister of Finance Zakhiwal
- [26 Oct 10] Press Release: Treasury Designates Narcotics Traffickers in Afghanistan as Specially Designated Global Terrorists For Their Ties to the Taliban
U.S. Department of the Treasury
- [30 June 10] Statement Following Meetings with Afghan President Karzai, Minister of Justice Habibullah Ghalib and Attorney General Mohammad Ishaq Aloko
Eric Holder, Attorney General
- [18 June 10] Are Private Security Contractors Performing Inherently Governmental Functions?
Hearing before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- [24 May 10] How Good is Our System for Curbing Contract Waste, Fraud, and Abuse?
Hearing before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- [19 April 10] Reliance on Contingency Services Contracts: Where is the Management and Oversight?
Hearing before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- [23 Feb 10] Afghan Women and Girls: Building the Future of Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and Global Women's Issues
- [10 Feb 10] Remarks at the American University of Afghanistan
Neal S. Wolin, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury
- [28 Jan 10] Terrorist Financing
Remarks by David S. Cohen, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing, at the Council on Foreign Relations
- [11 Jan 10] Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Discusses Afghanistan Trip
- [18 Dec 09] Afghan National Security Forces Contract Training
Hearing before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- [Aug 09] Comprehensive Oversight Plan: Afghanistan-Pakistan - Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Through Fiscal Year 2010
Southwest Asia Joint Planning Group
- [June 09] At What Cost? Contingency Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan: Interim Report
Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
- [April 09] Comprehensive Oversight Plan for Southwest Asia: FY 2009 Update
Southwest Asia Joint Planning Group
- [26 March 09] Human Rights in Afghanistan
Briefing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
- [Nov 08] Comprehensive Audit Plan for Southwest Asia: FY 2009 Update
Southwest Asia Joint Planning Group
- [June 08] Comprehensive Audit Plan for Southwest Asia
Southwest Asia Joint Planning Group
- [May 08] A Review of the FBI's Involvement in and Observations of Detainee Interrogations in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq
Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice
- [27 March 08] Fact Sheet: USAID Assistance to Afghanistan in 2002-2008
United States Agency for International Development
- [13 Nov 07] Remarks by Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez at the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce, U.S.-Afghan Business Matchmaking Conference
- [18 July 07] United States and Other Paris Club Creditors Provide Further Debt Relief to Afghanistan
Department of the Treasury Press Release
- [10 April 07] Business Opportunities in Afghanistan and Central Asia
Remarks by Franklin L. Lavin, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
- [31 Oct 06] Remarks to the Afghan American Chamber of Commerce Business Matchmaking Conference
Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce
- [4 Oct 06] Interview of John D. Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, with Gary Thomas, Voice of America
- [21 Aug 06] Afghanistan: Opportunities in the Telecommunications Sector
Remarks by Franklin L. Lavin, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
- [June 06] Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan: An Interagency Assessment
U.S. Agency for International Development
- [9 March 06] USAID Assistance to Afghanistan
James Kunder, USAID Assistant Administrator
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U.S. Congress
- [2 Aug 12] Afghan National Security Forces: Afghan Corruption and the Development of an Effective Fighting Force
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- [24 July 12] Afghan National Security Forces and Security Lead Transition: The Assessment Process, Metrics, and Efforts to Build Capability
Hearing before the House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- [24 July 12] Dawood National Military Hospital, Afghanistan: What Happened and What Went Wrong?
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- [18 July 12] Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Historical Lessons
Hearing before the House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- [29 June 12] Expert Assessments on the Afghan National Security Forces: Resources, Strategy, and Timetable for Security Lead Transition
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- [20 June 12] Afghan National Security Forces: Resources, Strategy, and Timetable for Security Lead Transition
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- [6 June 12] Investigating Waste, Fraud and Abuse in Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- [10 May 12] NATO: Chicago and Beyond
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [26 April 12] NATO: The Chicago Summit and U.S. Policy
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Europe and Eurasia
- [29 March 12] Are Changes in Security Policy Jeopardizing USAID Reconstruction Projects and Personnel in Afghanistan?
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- [8 Feb 12] Baluchistan
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- [1 Feb 12] The Use of Afghan Nationals to Provide Security to U.S. Forces
Hearing beofre the House Armed Services Committee
- [19 Dec 11] Central Asia and the Transition in Afghanistan
A Majority Staff Report by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [7 Dec 11] Oversight in Iraq and Afghanistan: Challenges and Solutions
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense, and Foreign Operations
- [3 Nov 11] 2014 and Beyond: U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, Part I
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
- [27 Oct 11] Afghanistan and Pakistan: Transition and the Way Forward
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- [19 Oct 11] Final Report of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support
- [22 Sep 11] The U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
- [22 Sep 11] Afghan National Security Forces
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [15 Sep 11] Defense Department Contracting in Afghanistan: Are We Doing Enough to Combat Corruption?
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
- [8 Sep 11] Afghanistan: Right Sizing the Development Footprint
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [27 July 11] The Way Ahead in Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [30 June 11] Afghanistan Reconstruction Contracts: Lessons Learned and Ongoing Problems
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight
- [23 June 11] Recent Developments in Afghanistan and the Proposed Drawdown of U.S. Forces
Hearing before the House Committee on Armed Services
- [8 June 11] Hearing to Consider the Nomination of Ryan C. Crocker to be Ambassador to Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [8 June 11] Evaluating U.S. Foreign Assistance to Afghanistan
Majority Staff Report by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [24 May 11] Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Other Extremist Groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [10 May 11] Steps Needed for a Successful 2014 Transition in Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [9 May 11] Press Release: Welch and Chaffetz Lead Bipartisan House Group Urging Obama to Pull Out of Afghanistan and Recalibrate Anit-terrorism Strategy
- [3 May 11] Afghanistan: What is an Acceptable End-State and How Do We Get There?
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [3 May 11] Women in Afghanistan
Hearing before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, U.S. House of Representatives
- [16 March 11] Developments in Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [15 March 11] The Situation in Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
- [1 March 11] Equipping the Warfighter in Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces
- [22 Feb 11] Avoiding Water Wars: Water Scarcity and Central Asia's Growing Importance for Stability in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Majority staff report by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [18 Nov 10] Oversight of Reconstruction Contracts in Afghanistan and the Role of the Special Inspector General
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight
- [28 Sep 10] Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan
Report of the Senate Armed Services Committee
- [27 July 10] Perspectives on Reconciliation Options in Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [15 July 10] Oversight of U.S. Civilian Assistance for Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations
- [14 July 10] Afghanistan: Governance and the Civilian Strategy
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [July 10] U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy in Afghanistan
Report to the Senate Caucus on International Narcotcs Control
- [29 June 10] Contracting in Combat Zones: Who Are Our Subcontractors?
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
- [29 June 10] To Consider the Nomination of General David H. Petraeus, USA, for Reappointment to the Grade of General and to be Commander, International Security Assistance Force and Commander, United States Forces Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
- [22 June 10] Investigation of Protection Payments for Safe Passage Along the Afghan Supply Chain
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
- [22 June 10] Warlord, Inc.: Extortion and Corruption Along the U.S. Supply Chain in Afghanistan
Report of the Majority Staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
- [16 June 10] Developments in Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [15 June 10] The Situation in Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
- [20 May 10] Afghanistan Reconstruction Oversight
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight
- [6 May 10] The Meaning of Marjah
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [5 May 10] Developments in Security and Stability in Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [22 April 10] Crisis in Kyrgyzstan: Fuel, Contracts, and Revolution along the Afghan Supply Chain
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
- [15 April 10] Contracts for Afghan National Police Training
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight
- [14 April 10] Deployed Federal Civilians: Advancing Security and Opportunity in Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Colombia
- [23 March 10] Interagency Coordination of Grants and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan: Progress, Obstacles, and Plans
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
- [17 March 10] Force Protection Equipment Programs for Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Joint Seapower and Expeditionary Forces and Air and Land Forces Subcommittees
- Gene Taylor, Chairman, Subcommittee on Seapower and Expeditionary Forces
- Adam Smith, Chairman, Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces
- BGen Michael M. Brogan, USMC, Commander, Marine Corps Systems Command
- Davi M. D'Agostino, Government Accountability Office
- LTG Michael L. Oates, Director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization
- MG Thomas W. Spoehr, USA, Director of Force Development, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-8, and BG Peter N. Fuller, USA, Program Executive Officer Soldier
- [10 March 10] Statement in Opposition to H. Con. Res. 248, the War Powers Resolution
Howard L. Berman, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- [21 Jan 10] CBO's Analysis of Scenarios for Funding the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Letter to the Honorable John M. Spratt Jr., Chariman of the House Committee on the Budget. Congressional Budget Office
- [17 Dec 09] Afghanistan Contracts: An Overview
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight
- [15 Dec 09] Winning the War in Afghanistan
Address by Senator John McCain at the Heritage Foundation
- [10 Dec 09] U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan - Part II
- [9 Dec 09] The New Afghanistan Strategy: The View from the Ground
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [8 Dec 09] Afghanistan: The Results of the Strategic Review, Part II
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [8 Dec 09] Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
- [3 Dec 09] Afghanistan: The Results of the Strategic Review, Part I
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [3 Dec 09] Afghanistan: Assessing the Road Ahead
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [2 Dec 09] U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- [2 Dec 09] Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee
- [19 Nov 09] Afghan Elections: What Happened and Where Do We Go From Here?
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
- [17 Nov 09] Iraq and Afghanistan: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy, Part III
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [5 Nov 09] Iraq and Afghanistan: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy, Part II
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
- [22 Oct 09] Afghanistan and Iraq: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
- [22 Oct 09] Counterterrorism Within the Afghanistan Counterinsurgency
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Terrorism Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee
- [21 Oct 09] U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy in Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
- [20 Oct 09] Chairman Kerry Welcomes President Karzai's Decision to Conduct a Runoff Election
Statement by Senator John Kerry, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman
- [15 Oct 09] Afghanistan Policy at the Crossroads
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- [15 Oct 09] U.S. International Broadcasting into the War Zones: Iraq and Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and Global Women's Issues
- [14 Oct 09] Afghanistan: Getting the Strategy Right
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [7 Oct 09] Confronting Al-Qaeda: Understanding the Threat in Afghanistan and Beyond
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [1 Oct 09] The Afghan Elections: Who Lost What?
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
- [1 Oct 09] Afghanistan's Impact on Pakistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [22 Sep 09] Letter to the President: Best Approach in Afghanistan is a Properly Resourced Counter-Insurgency Strategy
Ike Skelton, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee
- [17 Sep 09] Countering the Threat of Failure in Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [16 Sep 09] Exploring Three Strategies for Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Commitee on Foreign Relations
- [9 Sep 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan: Accountability Community Oversight of a New Interagency Strategy
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
- [10 Aug 09] Afghanistan's Narco War: Breaking the Link Between Drug Traffickers and Insurgents
Report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [14 July 09] U.S. Promotion of the Afghan Economy: Impediments and Opportunities
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
- [24 June 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan: Oversight of a New Interagency Strategy
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
- [9 June 09] Commission on Wartime Contracting: Interim Findings and Path Forward
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
- [21 May 09] A New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- [19 May 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan: Resourcing the Civilian 'Surge'
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
- [2 April 09] New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan and Developments in U.S. Central Command and Special Operations Command
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [2 April 09] U.S. Strategy for Afghanistan: Achieving Peace and Stability in the Graveyard of Empires
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
- [1 April 09] United States Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
- [25 March 09] Effective Counterinsurgency: How the Use and Misuse of Reconstruction Funding Affects the War Effort in Iraq and Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [4 March 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan: Understanding a Complex Threat Environment
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
- [26 Feb 09] Strategic Options for the Way Ahead in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
- [25 Feb 09] Winning the War in Afghanistan
Remarks by Senator John McCain at the American Enterprise Institute
- [12 Feb 09] Training and Equipping Afghan Security Forces: Unaccounted Weapons and Strategic Challenges
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
- [12 Feb 09] Addressing U.S. Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan: Balancing Interests and Resources
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [29 Jan 09] Turning the Tide in Afghanistan
Remarks by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman at the Brookings Institution
- [23 Sep 08] The Situation in Iraq and Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee
- [10 Sep 08] Security and Stability in Afghanistan and Iraq: Developments in U.S. Strategy and Operations and the Way Ahead
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [24 June 08] Examination of AEY Contracts with the U.S. Government
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform NOTE: Concerns a $300 million contract to supply ammunition to the Afghan security forces
- [18 June 08] Oversight of U.S. Efforts to Train and Equip Police and Enhance the Justice Sector in Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
- [3 June 08] Report of Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and Senator Bob Casey (D-PA): Travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan
- [1 May 08] Hanging by a Thread: The State of U.S. Military Readiness and the Prospects for Success in Afghanistan
Statement by Ike Skelton, House Armed Services Committee Chairman, before the U.S. House of Representatives
- [2 April 08] Strategic Chaos and Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- [April 08] Agency Stovepipes vs Strategic Agility: Lessons We Need to Learn from Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq and Afghanistan
Subcommittee on Oversight and Intestigations, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representatives
- [14 Feb 08] The Strategy in Afghanistan and Recent Reports by the Afghanistan Study Group and the Atlantic Council of the United States
Hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee
- [31 Jan 08] Afghanistan: A Plan to Turn the Tide?
Hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Statement by Senator Richard Lugar, Ranking Republican on the Committee
- [23 Jan 08] Assessment of U.S. Strategy and Operations in Afghanistan and the Way Ahead
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [11 Dec 07] Security and Stability in Afghanistan: Status of U.S. Strategy and Operations and the Way Ahead
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [25 Oct 07] Estimated Costs of U.S. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Other Activities Related to the War on Terrorism
Congressional Budget Office
- [4 Oct 07] The Role of the Department of Defense in Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan and Iraq
Hearing before the House Armed Services Commitee, Oversight and Investigations Subcomittee
- Vic Snyder, chair
- Mitchell Shivers, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Central Asia Affairs
- Maj. Gen. Bobby J. Wilkes, USAF - Deputy Director for Politico-Military Affairs (Asia), Strategic Plans and Policy, the Joint Staff
- Mark Kimmitt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
- Col. Ralph O. Baker, USA, Deputy Director for Politico-Military Affairs (Middle East), Strategic Plans and Policy, The Joint Staff
- [2 Oct 07] Private Security Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform
- [Sep 07] Replacing and Repairing Equipment Used in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Army's Reset Program
Congressional Budget Office
- [30 March 07] H.R. 2446 Afghanistan Freedom Security Support Act of 2007
Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate
- [22 March 07] Deconstructing Reconstruction: Problems, Challenges, and the Way Forward in Iraq and Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- [1 March 07] Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee
- [15 Feb 07] Afghanistan on the Brink: Where Do We Go from Here?
Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
- [13 Feb 07] Assessment of Security and Stability in Afghanistan and Developments in U.S. Strategy and Operations
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [15 Nov 06] The Current Situation and U.S. Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
Hearing before the Senate Armed Forces Committee
- Gen. John P. Abizaid, USA, Commander, United States Central Command
- David M. Satterfield, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq
- Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, USA, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
- Gen. Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
- [12 Oct 06] Hyde/Kirk Letter to Secretary Rumsfeld Regarding the Opium Crisis in Afghanistan
- [21 Sep 06] From Coalition to ISAF Command in Afghanistan: The Purpose and Impact of the Transition
Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- [20 Sep 06] Afghanistan: Five Years After 9/11
Hearing before the House International Relations Committee
- [28 June 06] Status of Security and Stability in Afghanistan
Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
- [22 Sep 05] United States Policy in Afghanistan: Establishing Democratic Governance and Security in the Wake of Parliamentary Elections
Hearing before the House International Relations Committe
- [17 March 05] U.S. Counternarcotics Policy in Afghanistan: Time for Leadership
Hearing before the House International Relations Committee
- [23 Sep 04] United States Security Policy in Afghanistan on the Eve of National Elections
Hearing before the House International Relations Committee
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Drug Trade
- [Nov 12] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012 - Summary Findings
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Aug 12] Counter-Narcotics in Afghanistan
Civil-Military Fusion Centre
- [28 June 12] Porous Border and Corruption Keep Drugs Flowing through Tajikistan
Alexander Sodiqov. Jamestown Foundation
- [April 12] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012: Opium Risk Assessment for All Regions (Phase 1 & 2)
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Oct 11] Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Counter-Narcotics Efforts and their Effects in Nangarhar and Helm and in the 2010-11 Growing Season
David Mansfield. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Oct 11] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2011: Summary Findings
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [July 11] Opium Poppy Strikes Back: The 2011 Return of Opium in Balkh and Badakhshan Provinces
Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [May 11] Managing Concurrent and Repeated Risks: Explaining the Reductions in Opium Production in Central Helmand between 2008 and 2011
David Mansfield. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [April 11] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2011: Winter Rapid Assessment All Regions - Phases 1 and 2
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [2 March 11] Europe and Afghan Heroin
Walter Kegö and Mathias Hedlund. Institute for Security and Development Policy
- [March 11] Afghanistan's Drug Career: Evolution from a War Economy to a Drug Economy
Citha D. Maass. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Sep 10] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2010: Summary Findings
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Sep 10] Countering Afghan Narcotics: A Litmus Test for Effective NATO and Russia Cooperation?
Patrick F. P. Nopens. Royal Institute for International Relations
- [July 10] U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy in Afghanistan
Report to the Senate Caucus on International Narcotcs Control
- [June 10] Drug Use in Afghanistan: 2009 Survey
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [May 10] Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Assessing the Sustainability of Current Reductions in Opium Production in Afghanistan
David Mansfield. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [1 April 10] Counternarcotics Operations in Afgahnistan: The COIN of the Realm
COL Louis H. Jordan. Strategic Studies Institute
- [April 10] Afghanistan: Cannabis Survey 2009
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [9 March 10] Afghanistan Drug Control: Strategy Evolving and Progress Reported, but Interim Performance Targets and Evaluation of Justice Reform Efforts Needed
Government Accountability Office
- [10 Feb 10] The Good and Bad News about Afghan Opium
George Gavrilis. Council on Foreign Relations
- [Dec 09] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2009
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Dec 09] Why Buy Something We Hate? Subsidize Other Crops, Not Poppy
Allison Brown. Small Wars Journal
- [12 Nov 09] The Afghan Narcotics Industry: Extended Summary
Anthony H. Cordesman and Nicholas B. Greenough. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [28 Oct 09] Narco-Belligerents Across the Globe: Lessons from Colombia for Afghanistan?
Vanda Felbab-Brown. Real Instituto Elcano
- [Oct 09] Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Sep 09] The Obama Administration's New Counternarcotics Strategy in Afghanistan: Its Promises and Potential Pitfalls
Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
- [Sep 09] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2009: Summary Findings
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [12 Aug 09] Afghanistan: Narcotics and U.S. Policy
Christopher M. Blanchard. Congressional Research Service
- [Aug 09] How Opium Profits the Taliban
Gretchen Peters. United States Institute of Peace
- [15 July 09] Target the Drug Lords in Afghanistan, Not the Farmers
Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
- [May 09] "Poppy Free" Provinces: A Measure or a Target?
David Mansfield. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [April 09] Challenges and Opportunities for Strengthening Licit Agricultural Livelihoods
Alan Roe. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [25 March 09] Reframing Counter-narcotics Policy in Afghanistan
Testimony by Fabrice Pothier, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee
- [19 Feb 09] Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2008
NOTE: Information on drug control efforts in Afghanistan begins on page 37
- [23 Jan 09] Upcoming Changes to the Drug-Insurgency Nexus in Afghanistan
Jacob Townsend. Jamestown Foundation
- [Jan 09] Afghanistan: Opium Winter Assessment
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Dec 08] "Let Them Eat Promises": Closing the Opium Poppy Fields in Balkh and its Consequences
Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Dec 08] Counter-Narcotics in Afghanistan: The Failure of Success?
David Mansfield and Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Nov 08] Water Management, Livestock and the Opium Economy: Natural Resources Management, Farming Systems and Rural Livelihoods
Alan Roe. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Oct 08] Afghanistan's Hidden Drug Problem: The Misuse of Psychotropics
David Macdonald. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Oct 08] Opium Poppy and Informal Credit
Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Aug 08] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008: Executive Summary
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [May 08] Resurgence and Reductions: Explanations for Changing Levels of Opium Poppy Cultivation in Nangarhar and Ghor in 2006-07
David Mansfield. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [April 08] Illicit Drug Trends in Afghanistan
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [March 08] Responding to Afghanistan's Opium Economy Challenge: Lessons and Policy Implications from a Development Perspective
William A. Byrd. The World Bank
- [Feb 08] Anatomy of a Fallacy: The Senlis Council and Narcotics in Afghanistan
Frédéric Grare. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [Feb 08] Afghanistan: Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Feb 08] Afghanistan Economic Incentives and Development Initiatives to Reduce Opium Production
Christopher Ward, David Mansfield, Peter Oldham and William Byrd. The World Bank
- [20 Dec 07] Tackling Afghanistan's Opium Trade with Legalization
Romesh Bhattacharji. Council on Foreign Relations
- [Nov 07] Afghan Poppy for Medicine Projects: An Economic Case Study
Senlis Council
- [Oct 07] Opium and Afghanistan: Reassessing U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy
John A. Glaze. Strategic Studies Institute
- [Aug 07] Opium Licensing in Afghanistan: Its Desirability and Feasibility
Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
- [Aug 07] Afghanistan Opium Survey Executive Summary
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [June 07] India's Experiences in Licensing Poppy Cultivatoin for the Production of Essential Medicines: Lessons for Afghanistan
Romesh Bhattacharji. Senlis Council
- [June 07] Poppy for Medicine: Licensing Poppy for the Production of Essential Medicines: An Integrated Counter-Narcotics, Development, and Counter-Insurgency Model for Afghanistan
Senlis Council
- [10 May 07] Afghanistan's Drug Trade and How it Funds Taliban Operations
Hayder Mili and Jacob Townsend. Jamestown Foundation
- [Feb 07] Afghanistan: Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Winter 06/07] Poppies for Peace: Reforming Afghanistan's Opium Industry
Peter van Ham and Jorrit Kamminga. Washington Quarterly
- [Dec 06] Water Management, Livestock and the Opium Economy: Opium Poppy Cultivation in Nangarhar and Ghor
David Mansfield. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Nov 06] Afghanistan's Drug Industry: Structure, Functioning, Dynamics, and Implications for Counter-Narcotics Policy
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and The World Bank
- [15 Nov 06] Afghanistan Drug Control: Despite Improved Efforts, Deteriorating Security Threatens Success of U.S. Goals
Government Accountability Office
- [Nov 06] Combating Opium in Afghanistan
Ali A. Jalali, Robert B. Oakley, and Zoe Hunter. Strategic Forum, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
- [14 Sep 06] Afghanistan's Role in Iran's Drug Problem
Lionel Beehner. Council on Foreign Relations
- [Aug 06] Opium Poppy Eradication: How to Raise Risk When There is Nothing to Lose?
David Mansfield and Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [June 06] Integrated Social Control in Afghanistan: Implications for the Licensed Cultivation of Poppy for the Production of Medicines
Ali Wardak. Senlis Council
- [27 Feb 06] The Economic Feasibility of Licensed Opium Production for the Production of Medicines in Afghanistan
Senlis Council
- [Feb 06] Afghanistan's Opium Production in Perspective
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
- [12 Sep 05] Summary Findings of Opium Trends in Afghanistan
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Fall 05] Afghanistan: When Counternarcotics Undermines Counterterrorism
Vanda Felbab-Brown. The Washington Quarterly
- [29 Aug 05] The Opium Situation in Afghanistan
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [July 05] Mapping of Alternative Livelihoods Projects in Afghanistan
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [05] Opium Cultivation
Afghanistan Watch
- [10 Nov 04] How the Drug War in Afghanistan Undermines America's War on Terror
Ted Galen Carpenter. Cato Institute
- [Nov 04] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2004
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
TOP
Human Rights & Refugees
- [current] Amnesty International's Online Document Archive - Afghanistan
- [current] Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
- [current] Human Rights Watch - Afghanistan
- [current] Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
- [Jan 13] Treatment of Conflict-Related Detainees in Afghan Custody: One Year On
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- [Dec 12] Still a Long Way to Go: Implementation of the Law on Elimination of Violence against Women in Afghanistan
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [24 May 12] U.S. State Department Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Afghanistan - 2011
- [Feb 12] Fleeing War, Finding Misery: The Plight of the Internally Displaced in Afghanistan
Amnesty International
- [7 Oct 11] Looming Threat to Afghan Women's Rights
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. Council on Foreign Relations
- [3 Oct 11] A Place at the Table: Safeguarding Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Louise Hancock and Orzala Asrhraf Nemat. Oxfam
- [Oct 11] Treatment of Conflict-Related Detainees in Afghan Custody
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- [24 Sep 11] Women in Afghanistan: A Human Rights Tragedy Ten Years after 9/11
Hayat Alvi. Human Rights and Human Welfare, University of Denver
- [8 April 11] U.S. State Department Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Afghanistan - 2010
- [1 Dec 10] Afghanistan: In a Time of Conflict
Lynn Yoshikawa and Dawn Calabia. Refugees International
- [19 Nov 10] Nowhere to Turn: The Failure to Protect Civilians in Afghanistan - A Joint Briefing Paper by 29 Aid Organizations Working in Afghanistan for the NATO Heads of Government Summit, Lisbon, November 19-20, 2010
Oxfam International, et al.
- [17 Nov 10] U.S. State Department Report on Religious Freedom in Afghanistan - 2010
- [Nov 10] Realizing National Responsibility for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons in Afghanistan: A Review of Relevant Laws, Policies, and Practices
Brookings Institution and the Norwegian Refugee Council
- [July 10] The "Ten-Dollar Talib" and Women's Rights: Afghan Women and the Risks of Reintegration and Reconciliation
Rachel Reid. Human Rights Watch
- [July 10] ARM Mid-Year Report: Civilian Casualties of Conflict, January-June 2010
Afghanistan Rights Monitor
- [May 10] Beyond the Blanket: Towards More Effective Protection for Internally Displaced Persons in Southern Afghanistan
Susanne Schmeidl, Alexander D. Mundt, and Nick Miszak. Brookings Institution
- [11 March 10] U.S. State Department Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Afghanistan - 2009
- [March 10] Human Rights Dimension of Poverty in Afghanistan
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- [17 Dec 09] More Effective Protection for Internally Displaced Persons in Southern Afghanistan
Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
- [Dec 09] "We Have the Promises of the World": Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Rachel Reid, et al. Human Rights Watch
- [Nov/Dec 09] Report on the Situation of Economic and Social Rights in Afghanistan - IV - Qaws 1388
Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
- [26 Oct 09] U.S. State Department Report on Religious Freedom in Afghanistan - 2009
- [31 Aug 09] Afghanistan: What Now for Refugees?
International Crisis Group
- [1 June 09] Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Return of Internally Displaced Persons to Northern Afghanistan
Alex Mundt, Susanne Schmeidl, and Shafiqullah Ziai. Brookings Institution
- [May 09] State of the World's Human Rights: Afghanistan
Amnesty International
- [March 09] Afghanistan: Humanitarianism under Threat
Antonio Donini. Feinstein International Center
- [25 Feb 09] U.S. State Department Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Afghanistan - 2008
- [Dec 08] Economic and Social Rights Report in Afghanistan - III
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
- [Nov 08] A Mandate to Mainstream: Promoting Gender Equality in Afghanistan
Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [23 June 08] Displacement and Security in Afghanistan
Summary report of a Brookings Institution seminar
- [April 08] Arbitrary Justice: Trials of Guantánamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan
Sahr MuhammedAlly. Human Rights First
- [11 March 08] U.S. State Department Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Afghanistan - 2007
- [June 07] To Return Or To Remain: The Dilemma of Second-Generation Afghans in Pakistan
Mamiko Saito and Pamela Hunte. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [6 March 07] U.S. State Department Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Afghanistan - 2006
- [26 Jan 07] Afghan Refugees: Current Status and Future Prospects
Rhoda Margesson. Congressional Research Service
- [15 Sep 06] U.S. State Department Report on Religious Freedom in Afghanistan - 2006
- [8 March 06] U.S. State Department Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Afghanistan - 2005
- [n.d.] Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan website
TOP
NATO
- [current] International Security Assistance Force
- [current] NATO in Afghanistan
- [31 Jan 13] Secretary General's Annual Report 2012
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- [2 Jan 13] 10,000 Troops in Afghanistan Is Not Enough: Rightsizing NATO's Developmental Support Force Beyond 2014
LTG James M. Dubik, USA (ret.) and Jeffrey Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
- [5 Oct 12] NATO Must Refocus on Afghanistan
Luke Coffey. Heritage Foundation
- [July 12] After Combat, the Perils of Partnership: NATO and Afghanistan Beyond 2014
Sten Rynning. NATO Defense College
- [21 June 12] NATO and Afghanistan: Beginning of an Orderly or Messy Process of Withdrawal?
Shahid Javed Burki. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
- [June 12] How to Get Out of Afghanistan: NATO’s Withdrawal Through Central Asia
Heidi Reisinger. NATO Defense College
- [21 May 12] Chicago Summit Declaration on Afghanistan
Issued by the Heads of State and Government of Afghanistan and Nations contributing to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
- [May 12] Beating a Retreat: Prospects for the Transition Process in Afghanistan
Barbara J. Stapleton. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [May 12] NATO Strategy in Afghanistan: A New Way Forward
Scott Bates and Ryan Evans. Center for National Policy
- [May 12] Afghanistan Transition: Elevating the Diplomatic Components of the Transition Strategy at the Chicago NATO Summit and Beyond
Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, and Brian Katulis. Center for American Progress
- [March 12] Can NATO Rethink its Exit Strategy from Afghanistan?
Steve Coll. Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa
- [Feb 12] Regional Implications of NATO Withdrawal from Afghanistan: What Role for the EU?
Clare Castillejo. Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior
- [12] The ISAF Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Perceptions and Reactions of Regional Powers
Sandra Destradi, Nadine Godehardt and Alexander Frank. German Institute of Global and Area Studies
- [Oct 11] A Knock on the Door: 22 Months of ISAF Press Releases
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Aug 11] The NATO Mission in Afghanistan: Transitioning to Afghan Control - NATO Defense College Conference, Rome, Italy, July 13-15, 2011
NATO Defense College
- [16 June 11] Training Afghanistan's Security Forces: NATO Has Made Solid Progress
Sally McNamara. Heritage Foundation
- [12 April 11] NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan: Enabling Security Transition
Remarks by LTG William B. Caldwell, Commander, NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan, at Chatham House
- [March 11] Clear, Hold, Hand Over: NATO’s Afghan Transition Plan
Alexander Nicoll and Jessica Delaney, eds. International Institute for Strategic Studies
- [March 11] ISAF Lessons Learned: A German Perspective
Rainer Glatz. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [Dec 10] From the Operational to the Strategic: A Post-2011 Opportunity
LTG William B. Caldwell, IV, USA, Commanding General of the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan. Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
- [20 Nov 10] Declaration by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on an Enduring Partnership Signed at the NATO Summit in Lisbon, Portugal
- [20 Nov 10] Declaration by the Heads of State and Government of the Nations Contributing to the UN-Mandated, NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan
- [Nov 10] Risking NATO: Testing the Limits of the Alliance in Afghanistan
Andrew R. Hoehn and Sarah Harting. RAND Corporation
- [Nov 10] Peacemeal or Peace Deal? NATO, Peace Talks and a Political Settlement in Afghanistan - NATO Heads of Government Summit, Lisbon, 19-20 November 2010
Oxford Research Group
- [Nov 10] Year in Review: November 2009 to November 2010
NATO Training Mission Afghanistan
- [Oct 10] ISAF and Afghanistan: The Impact of Failure on NATO's Future
Tarn D. Warren. Joint Force Quarterly
- [Sep 10] Afghanistan: The German Factor
James D. Bindenagel. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [17 Aug 10] Long Road Ahead for Afghan Security Forces
Jack Kem. Council on Foreign Relations
- [12 July 10] Afghan National Security Forces: What It Will Take to Implement the ISAF Strategy
Anthony H. Cordesman, Adam Mausner, and Jason Lemieux. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [30 June 10] Afghanistan: Standing Shoulder to Shoulder with the United States
Remarks by Liam Fox, Secretary of State for Defense, United Kingdom, at the Heritage Foundation
- [May 10] Executive Summary for AR 15-6 Investigation, 21 February 2010 CIVCAS Incident in Uruzgan Province
Memorandum for Commander, United States Forces-Afghanistan/International Security Assistance Force, Afghanistan. Headquarters, United States Forces-Afghanistan
- [May 10] Operation Moshtarak: Lessons Learned
International Council on Security and Development
- [8 April 10] Afghanistan and the Future of Peace Operations
Remarks by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, at the University of Chicago
- [March 10] Afghanistan, Pakistan and NATO's Strategic Concept: Ignore, Finesse or Confront?
Boyko Noev and Harlan Ullman. Atlantic Council of the United States
- [Jan 10] NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan: Building a Sustainable, Legitimate, Effective Afghanistan Security Force: A Holistic Perspective
Cindy Jebb and Richard Lacquement. Small Wars Journal
- [9 Dec 09] Press Briefing by NATO Spokesman James Appathurai and ISAF Spokesman Brigadier General Eric Tremblay
- [9 Dec 09] U.S.-NATO: Looking for Common Ground in Afghanistan
Robert E. Hunter. Council on Foreign Relations
- [4 Dec 09] NATO Press Release: Statement on Afghanistan
Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Nations Participating in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
- [3 Dec 09] NATO in Afghanistan: A Test of the Transatlantic Alliance
Vincent Morelli and Paul Belkin. Congressional Research Service
- [3 Dec 09] NATO Allies in Europe Must Do More in Afghanistan
Sally McNamara. Heritage Foundation
- [2 Dec 09] Statement by the Secretary General on President Obama's Announcement
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General
- [23 Oct 09] Press Conference Following the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Defence Ministers Session in Bratislava
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General
- [22 Oct 09] Press Briefing at the Beginning of the Informal NATO Defence Ministerial Meeting in Bratislava
James Appathurai, NATO Spokesman
- [28 Sep 09] Afghanistan and NATO: The Way Forward
Prepared speech by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, at the Atlantic Council of the United States
- [Sep 09] NATO and the New US "Af-Pak" Strategy
Christopher M. Schnaubelt. NATO Defense College
- [Sep 09] Arguing Afghanistan: What the Detractors of NATO's Mission Get Wrong
Patrick Keller. NATO Defense College
- [17 Aug 09] State of Denial? NATO at 60 and the War in Afghanistan
LTC Rick Olsen (ret.). Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
- [Aug 09] Organizing Counterinsurgency Operations in Afghanistan
Donald C. Bolduc. Small Wars Journal
- [27 July 09] NATO's Mission in Afghanistan: The Political Strategy
Remarks by David Miliband, Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, at NATO Headquarters, Brussels
- [6 July 09] Tactical Directive
Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force, Kabul, Afghanistan NOTE: Contains the releasable portions of a Tactical Directive issued by General McChrystal for the guidance of ISAF and U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A)
- [Summer 09] Don't Shoot, We're German! Obstacles to a Debate on the Bundeswehr's International Missions
Eric Chauvistré. Journal of the German Council on Foreign Relations
- [May 09] Operational Effectiveness and UN Resolution 1325 - Practices and Lessons from Afghanistan
Louise Olsson and Johan Tejpar, eds. Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), et al.
- [4 April 09] Summit Declaration on Afghanistan - Issued by the Heads of State and Government Participating in the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Strasbourg / Kehl
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- [3 April 09] Nonmilitary Commitments Needed from NATO in Afghanistan
Adm. Michael G. Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Council on Foreign Relations
- [2 April 09] NATO in Afghanistan: Fault Lines in the Transatlantic Alliance?
Shanthie Mariet D'Souza. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
- [April 09] CIMIC in the ISAF Mission: Conception, Implementation and Development of Civil-Military Cooperation in the Bundeswehr Abroad
Michael Paul. German Institute for International and Security Affairs
- [25 March 09] NATO 60th Anniversary Summit: An Agenda for American Leadership
Sally McNamara. Heritage Foundation
- [Spring 09] Operational Design for ISAF in Afghanistan: A Primer
Julian D. Alford and Scott A. Cuomo. Joint Force Quarterly
- [11 Feb 09] Karzai and NATO: A Parting of Ways?
Richard Weitz. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
- [09] Alliance and Peacebuilding: Afghanistan as an "Out-Of-Area" Operation of NATO
Yoshizaki Tomonori. National Institute of Defense Studies
- [09] Afghanistan Report 2009
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- [Oct 08] What NATO Can Learn from "the Surge" in Iraq
Christopher M. Schnaubelt. NATO Defense College
- [30 July 08] After Action Report - Visit NATO Shape Headquarters and Afghanistan - 21-26 July 2008
Memorandum by Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, USA (Ret)
- [Summer 08] Swords and Ploughshares: Can NATO Survive Afghanistan?
Matthew A. Rosenstein, et al. Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- [8 May 08] NATO in Afghanistan: A Special Address by the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Remarks by Gen. Bantz John Craddock at the Heritage Foundation
- [17 April 08] Assessing the Overall Security Situation in Afghanistan
Statement by Nick Grono, Deputy President, International Crisis Group, at a DCAF-NATO Parliamentary Assembly Seminar on Stabilising Afghanistan
- [16 April 08] Post-Bucharest: NATO's Prospects in Afghanistan
Richard Weitz. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
- [3 April 08] ISAF's Strategic Vision: Declaration by the Heads of State and Government of the Nations Contributing to the UN-mandated NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan
- [2-4 April 08] Progress in Afghanistan: Bucharest Summit 2-4 April 2008
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- [April 08] Helping Secure Afghanistan's Future
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- [25 March 08] NATO and the Afghan Insurgency: Looking Ahead to Bucharest
Andrew Imbrie. British American Security Information Council
- [24 March 08] Is NATO Up to the Afghan Challenge? Expectations for the Bucharest Meeting
Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event
- [29 Feb 08] Afghanistan and NATO: Forging the 21st Century Alliance
Remarks of Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General, to the Brookings Institution
- [Feb 08] Pashutunistan, NATO and the Global War on Terror: "If You Don't Fight, You Cannot Have Peace in Afghanistan"
Michael Mihalka. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
- [Feb 08] The German Army and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: The Need for Strategy
Timo Noetzel and Benjamin Schreer. German Institute for International and Security Affairs
- [Jan 08] Afghanistan: Europe's Forgotten War
Daniel Korski. European Council on Foreign Relations
- [13 Nov 07] NATO's Big Mission: The United States, Europe and the Challenge of Afghanistan
Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
- [March 07] Assessing ISAF: A Baseline Study of NATO's Role in Afghanistan
Cameron Scott. British American Security Information Council
- [29 Nov 06] Riga Summit Declaration
Issued by the Heads of State and Government Participating in the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Riga
- [29 Nov 06] Going South? NATO Still Split on Afghanistan
Thomas Barfield. The National Interest
- [27 Nov 06] NATO in Afghanistan: A Test Case for Future Missions
Helle Dale. Heritage Foundation
- [5 Nov 06] A Duty NATO is Dodging in Afghanistan
David Bosco. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [2 Nov 06] NATO Joint Press Statement
- [5 Oct 06] Statement by the Secretary General on Expansion of NATO's Operation in Afghanistan
- [4 Oct 06] NATO's Role in Afghanistan
Transcript of a speech by James R. Jones, General, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, to the Council on Foreign Relations
- [17 Sep 06] ISAF Concludes Operation Medusa in Southern Afghanistan
NATO Press Release
- [6 Sep 06] Declaration by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- [23 Aug 06] NATO Struggles to Maintain Control of Southern Afghanistan
Waliullah Rahmani. Jamestown Foundation
- [3 Aug 06] NATO and the Afghan-Pakistani Border
Lionel Beehner. Council on Foreign Relations
- [27 July 06] NATO Takes On Afghan Security
Esther Pan. Council on Foreign Relations
- [1 June 06] NATO's Afghan Expansion
David Barno, Director of the Near East-South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. Council on Foreign Relations
- [15 May 06] Afghanistan Stage III: NATO's Most Ambitious Operation?
Francis Rheinheimer. Center for Defense Information
- [9 Jan 06] Dutch Retreat? The Perils of Turning Afghanistan over to NATO
Vance Serchuk. American Enterprise Institute
- [8 Jan 06] Back Up NATO's Afghanistan Force
Philip H. Gordon. Brookings Institution
- [8 Dec 05] Final Communiqué
NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting
- [8 Dec 05] News Conference
Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General
- [6 Dec 05] Rice Faces 'Tough Sale' to Persuade NATO Allies on Expanding Force in Afghanistan
Robert E. Hunter. Council on Foreign Relations
TOP
Politics & Government
- [current] Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan
- [current] Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - Office of the President
- [current] Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council Elections
Joint Afghan-U.N. Electoral Management Body
- [7 Jan 13] Managing Afghanistan's Political Transition Between Now and 2014
Caroline Wadhams. Center for American Progress
- [5 Dec 12] Complex Afghan Political Consultations
Omar Samad. United States Institute of Peace
- [Dec 12] The Resilient Oligopoly: A Political-Economy of Northern Afghanistan 2001 and Onwards
Antonio Guistozzi. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [30 Nov 12] Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance
Kenneth Katzman. Congressional Research Service
- [15 Nov 12] Report of the Public Inquiry into the Kabul Bank Crisis
Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee
- [Oct 12] Land Governance at the Crossroads: A Review of Afghanistan’s Proposed New Land Management Law
Liz Alden Wily. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [14 Sep 12] Unpacking Afghanistan's Ministerial Shake-Up: Karzai's Next Move
Mara Tchalakov. Institute for the Study of War
- [16 Aug 12] Abdul Wardak and Bismillah Kahn Mohammadi: Unpacking Afghanistan’s Ministerial Shake-up
Mara Tchalakov. Institute for the Study of War
- [Aug 12] Outlining a Diplomatic Strategy for Afghanistan's Political Transition: U.S. Policy Requires a More Coordinated Diplomatic and Political Approach to Match the Security Transition Efforts
Jed Ober and Brian Katulis. Center for American Progress
- [Aug 12] Ideology without Leadership: The Rise and Decline of Maoism in Afghanistan
Niamatullah Ibrahim. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Aug 12] Reforming Jombesh: An Afghan Party on its Winding Road to Internal Democracy
Robert Peszkowski. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [July 12] Fixing Afghanistan’s Electoral System: Arguments and Options for Reform
Andrew Reynolds and John Carey. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [June 12] Learning from Women's Success in the 2010 Afghan Elections
Scott Worden and Nina Sudhakar. United States Institute of Peace
- [May 12] Russian Roulette: Corruption, Revenue, and the Post-Soviet Precedent for State Failure in Afghanistan
Brian Fishman. New America Foundation
- [23 April 12] Karzai Appoints Four Provincial Governors
Paraag Shukla. Institute for the Study of War
- [6 April 12] Electoral Reform Critical Before Afghanistan's Next Presidential Election
Paraag Shukla. Institute for the Study of War
- [April 12] Formal and Informal Governance in Afghanistan: Reflections on a Survey of the Afghan People, Part 1 of 4
Robert D. Lamb. Asia Foundation
- [April 12] Political Governance and Strategy in Afghanistan
Robert D. Lamb and Brooke Shawn. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [26 March 12] Talking about Talks: Toward a Political Settlement in Afghanistan
International Crisis Group
- [17 Feb 12] How Will the Withdrawal of International Forces Affect Afghanistan?
Transcript of a Chatham House event featuring Fawzia Koofi, Member of Parliament, Afghanistan
- [Jan 12] Thirty Years of Conflict: Drivers of Anti-Government Mobilisation in Afghanistan, 1978-2011
Antonio Giustozzi and Niamatullah Ibrahimi. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [29 Nov 11] Towards a Self-Sustaining Afghanistan: An Economic Transition Strategy
The Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan NOTE: Full-text provided by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany
- [7 Nov 11] Constitutional Interpretation and the Continuing Crisis in Afghanistan
Scott Worden and Sylvana Q. Sinha. United States Institute of Peace
- [1 Nov 11] The Importance of Developing Government in Afghanistan
Scott R. Lewis. Small Wars Journal
- [20 Sep 11] Afghanistan Governance: Performance-Data Gaps Hinder Overall Assessment of U.S. Efforts to Build Financial Management Capacity
Government Accountability Office
- [16 Sep 11] Forging New Ties: Report from the First Meeting Between Afghan and Pakistani Women Parliamentarians
EastWest Institute NOTE: Select the "Download the Report" link to access the full-text
- [1 Aug 11] Unchecked and Unbalanced: President Karzai and the Afghan Parliament
Paraag Shukla. Institute for the Study of War
- [Aug 11] The Politics of Dispute Resolution and Continued Instability in Afghanistan
Noah Coburn. United States Institute of Peace
- [Aug 11] Subnational Government in Afghanistan
Michael Shurkin. RAND Corporation
- [29 July 11] The Kabul Courts and Conciliators: Mediating Cases in Urban Afghanistan
Zuhal Nesari and Karima Tawfik. United States Institute of Peace
- [July 11] Local Governance for Local Needs: Key Findings and Policy Options for Afghanistan
Douglas Saltmarshe and Abhilash Medhi. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [June 11] Local Governance in Afghanistan: A View from the Ground
Douglas Saltmarshe and Abhilash Medhi. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [May 11] Practicing Democracy in Afghanistan: Key Findings on Perceptions, Parliament, and Elections
Oliver Lough. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [May 11] Political Economy in the Wolesi Jirga: Sources of Finance and Their Impact on Representation in Afghanistan’s Parliament
Noah Coburn. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [May 11] Toward a Political Strategy For Afghanistan
Gretchen Birkle, Michael O’Hanlon and Hassina Sherjan. Brookings Institution
- [May 11] Deconstructing “Democracy” in Afghanistan
Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [March 11] Community-Based Dispute Resolution Processes in Kabul City
Rebecca Gang. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [March 11] Ministerial Advisors: Developing Capacity for an Enduring Security Force
James A. Schear, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy and Stability Operations, LTG William B. Caldwell, IV, USA, Commanding General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Training Mission - Afghanistan, and Frank C. DiGiovanni, Acting Director of Readiness and Training Policy and Programs for Personnel and Readiness, U.S. Department of Defense. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [23 Feb 11] Afghanistan's Elections Stalemate
International Crisis Group
- [Feb 11] Untangling Afghanistan's 2010 Vote: Analysing the Electoral Data
Martine van Bijlert. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Feb 11] Making Peace in Afghanistan: The Missing Political Strategy
Minna Jarvenpaa. United States Institute of Peace
- [Feb 11] Undermining Representative Governance: The 2010 Parliamentary Election and its Alienating Impact
Noah Coburn and Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [31 Jan 11] Karzai's Governing Strategy: A Threat to ISAF COIN Implementation
James Sisco. Small Wars Journal
- [Jan 11] Assessing Democracy Assistance: Afghanistan
Anna Larson. Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior
- [Dec 10] No Shortcut to Stability: Justice, Politics and Insurgency in Afghanistan
Stephen Carter and Kate Clark. Chatham House
- [17 Nov 10] Reforming Afghanistan's Broken Judiciary
International Crisis Group
- [9 Nov 10] Afghanistan: U.S. Rule of Law and Justice Sector Assistance
Liana Sun Wyler and Kenneth Katzman. Congressional Research Service
- [Nov 10] Means to What End? Policymaking and State-Building in Afghanistan
Sarah Parkinson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [14 Oct 10] Transparency is the Key to Legitimate Afghan Parliamentary Elections
Scott Worden. United States Institute of Peace
- [Oct 10] The Political Future of Afghanistan
Radha Kumar, Fabrice Pothier and Waliulla Rahmani. European Security Forum
- [Oct 10] A Patchwork Strategy of Consensus: Establishing a Rule of Law in Afghanistan
Mark R. Hagerott, Thomas J. Umberg, and Joseph A. Jackson. Joint Force Quarterly
- [20 Sep 10] Election Day 2010: First Preliminary Observation Report
Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan
- [16 Sep 10] Afghanistan's National Assembly Elections
Robert D. Lamb and Lauren Soelberg. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [9 Sep 10] How America Corrupted Afghanistan: Time to Look in the Mirror
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [7 Sep 10] Parliamentary Elections in Afghanistan: Imperfect, Yet Necessary
Shanthie Mariet D’Souza. Institute for South Asian Studies
- [7 Sep 10] Many Shuras Do Not a Government Make: International Community Engagement with Local Councils in Afghanistan
Shahmahmood Miakhel and Noah Coburn. United States Institute of Peace
- [Sep 10] Who Controls the Vote? Afghanistan's Evolving Elections
Martine van Bijlert. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Sep 10] Afghan Election, 2010: Alternative Narratives
Noah Coburn. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Sep 10] The Wolesi Jirga in Flux, 2010: Elections and Instability I
Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Sep 10] Parliamentarians and Local Politics in Afghanistan: Elections and Instability II
Noah Coburn. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Sep 10] An Interview with Said Tayeb Jawad
Said Tayeb Jawad, Ambassador of Afghanistan to the U.S. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [31 Aug 10] The Folly of Holding Afghan Elections
Candace Rondeaux. Council on Foreign Relations
- [11 Aug 10] Real Change for Women's Rights: Opportunities and Challenges in the Upcoming Parliamentary Elections
Nina Sudhakar and Scott Worden. United States Institute of Peace
- [Aug 10] Informal Dispute Resolution in Afghanistan
Noah Coburn and John Dempsey. United States Institute of Peace
- [20 July 10] Analysis of the Afghan Defense Appointments
Pamela Brown. Institute for the Study of War
- [July 10] Afghan Perceptions and Experiences of Corruption: A National Survey 2010
Integrity Watch Afghanistan
- [July 10] What the International Community Should Focus on at the Kabul Conference: Progress in Afghanistan Depends on Political Reforms
Caroline Wadhams and Colin Cookman. Center for American Progress
- [18 June 10] Rebuilding Afghanistan's Political Immunity
Shahmahmood Miakhel and Whit Mason. United States Institute of Peace
- [June 10] The Wolesi Jirga in 2010: Pre-Election Politics and the Appearance of Opposition
M. Hassan Wafaey and Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [June 10] Corrupting the State or State-Crafted Corruption? Exploring the Nexus between Corruption and Subnational Governance
Manija Gardizi, Karen Hussmann, and Yama Torabi. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [13 May 10] How to Gauge Karzai's U.S. Visit
Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
- [11 May 10] Karzai Comes to Washington
Gilles Dorronsor. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [May 10] Connecting with Kabul: The Importance of the Wolesi Jirga Election and Local Political Networks in Afghanistan
Noah Coburn. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [May 10] Leverage: Designing a Political Campaign for Afghanistan
Andrew Exum. Center for a New American Security
- [May 10] Governance in Afghanistan: Looking Ahead to What We Leave Behind
Colin Cookman and Caroline Wadhams. Center for American Progress
- [April 10] Speaking from the Evidence: Governance, Justice and Development - Policy Notes for the 2010 Kabul Conference
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [April 10] Politics and Power in Kandahar
Carl Forsberg. Institute for the Study of War
- [April 10] The State of Transitional Justice in Afghanistan: Actors, Approaches and Challenges
Emily Winterbotham. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Spring 10] Corruption and Social Trust in Afghanistan
Qiamuddin Amiry. al Nakhlah
- [17 Feb 10] Talking with Taliban - The Issue of "Reconciliation and Re-Integration"
Remarks by Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai, Advisor to the President of Afghanistan on Homeland Security, at the 7th Worldwide Security Conference, EastWest Institute
- [7 Feb 10] Speech at the 46th Munich Security Conference
Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- [2 Feb 10] Delays Will Not Improve Afghan Elections
Scott Worden. United States Institute of Peace
- [Feb 10] Between Patronage and Rebellion: Student Politics in Afghanistan
Antonio Giustozzi. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Jan 10] The Re-Election of Hamid Karzai
Haseeb Humayoon. Institute for the Study of War
- [Jan 10] Corruption in Afghanistan: Bribery as Reported by the Victims
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Jan 10] Governance in Afghanistan in a Regional Perspective
Christian Wagner. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [2 Dec 09] Press Release: Afghanistan Welcomes the New U.S. Strategy
Office of the President, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- [Dec 09] Afghanistan Governed by a Federal System with Autonomous Regions: A Path to Success?
Bryan Carroll and David A. Anderson. Small Wars Journal
- [Dec 09] A Holistic Justice System for Afghanistan
Deborah J. Smith and Jay Lamey. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [25 Nov 09] Afghanistan: Elections and the Crisis of Governance
International Crisis Group
- [24 Nov 09] Hamid Karzai's Second Term as Afghanistan's President: Promises, Challenges and Prospects
Shahid Javed Burki. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
- [4 Nov 09] Afghanistan Presidential Elections 2009: The 'Run-off' That Never Was
Shahid Javed Burki. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
- [3 Nov 09] Karzai's Moment of Opportunity
Zalmay M. Khalilzad. Council on Foreign Relations
- [Nov 09] Losing Legitimacy? Some Afghan Views on the Government, the International Community, and the 2009 Elections
Noah Coburn. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Nov 09] Voting Together: Why Afghanistan's 2009 Elections Were (and Were Not) a Disaster
Noah Coburn and Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [28 Oct 09] Our Faustian Bargains in Afghanistan: Ex-Warlords Continue to Hold Back Democratic Governance
Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, and Christina Misunas. Center for American Progress
- [26 Oct 09] Profiles of Afghan Power Brokers
Center for American Progress
- [23 Oct 09] Painting Democracy on Afghanistan
Thomas H. Johnson. Council on Foreign Relations
- [16 Sep 09] Political Quagmire in Afghanistan
International Council on Security and Development
- [3 Sep 09] Polling Day Fraud in the Afghan Elections
Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Sep 09] A New Approach to Afghanistan: Rigged Vote Sharpens Strategic Challenge
Alexander Nicoll and Jessica Delaney, eds. International Institute for Strategic Studies
- [Sep 09] What Democracy for Afghanistan? An Analysis Utilizing Established Norms and Five Non-Western Case Studies
Charles L. Barry and Samuel R. Greene. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
- [Sep 09] A Closer Look: The Policy and Law-Making Process Behind the Shiite Personal Status Law
Lauryn Oates. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Sep 09] Toward an Afghan Democracy? Exploring Perceptions of Democratisation in Afghanistan
Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [25 Aug 09] Prospects for Afghanistan's Future: Assessing the Outcome of the Afghan Presidential Election
Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
- [22 Aug 09] Preliminary Statement of the NDI Election Observer Delegation to Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential and Provincial Council Elections
National Democratic Institute
- [19 Aug 09] Afghan Presidential Elections: The Quest for Change
Shanthie Mariet D'Souza. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
- [17 Aug 09] Afghan Elections: A Perilous Time
Ahmed Rashid. Council on Foreign Relations
- [13 Aug 09] The 2009 Afghanistan Elections and the Future of Governance
Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
- [12 Aug 09] The Taliban and the Afghan Elections
Bruce Riedel. Brookings Institution
- [5 Aug 09] Afghan Election: Prospects for the Future
Transcript of a Center for National Policy event
- [Aug 09] Warlords as Bureaucrats: The Afghan Experience
Dipali Mukhopadhyay. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [Aug 09] Patronage, Posturing, Duty, Demographics: Why Afghans Voted in 2009
Noah Coburn and Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Aug 09] Afghanistan's Alternatives for Peace, Governance and Development: Transforming Subjects to Citizens and Rulers to Civil Servants
M. Nazif Shahrani. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [Aug 09] Afghanistan Elections: Guns and Money
International Council on Security and Development
- [Aug 09] How to Win an Afghan Election: Perceptions and Practices
Martine van Bijlert. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [July 09] AIHRC-UNAMA Joint Monitoring of Political Rights: Presidential and Provincial Council Elections - First Report, 25 April - 12 June 2009
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [24 June 09] Afghanistan's Election Challenges
International Crisis Group
- [18 May 09] Middle East Elections 2009: Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq
Casey L. Addis and Kenneth Katzman. Congressional Research Service
- [5 May 09] Governance, Growth and Development in Afghanistan
Remarks by Hamid Karzai, President, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, at the Brookings Institution
- [May 09] Between Discipline and Discretion: Policies Surrounding Senior Subnational Appointments
Martine van Bijlert. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [March 09] Afghanistan's Presidential Election: Power to the People, or the Powerful?
International Council on Security and Development
- [March 09] Afghanistan's New Democratic Parties: A Means to Organise Democratisation?
Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [March 09] Resolving the Crisis over Constitutional Interpretation in Afghanistan
John Dempsey and J. Alexander Thier. United States Institute of Peace
- [29 Jan 09] Afghanistan's Presidential Election
Ahmad Majidyar. American Enterprise Institute
- [Nov 08] Elections in 2009 and 2010: Technical and Contextual Challenges to Building Democracy in Afghanistan
Grant Kippen. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Fall 08] Is Time Ripe for Transitional Justice in Afghanistan?
David Wisner. al Nakhlah
- [June 08] Afghanistan - Building an Effective State: Priorities for Public Administration Reform
The World Bank
- [June 08] A Change of Paradigm in Afghanistan: Afghan Government Ownership Instead of Donor Priorities
Citha D. Maass. German Institute for International and Security Affairs
- [29 May 08] Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Return to the Afghan Insurgency
Muhammad Tahir. Jamestown Foundation
- [15 April 08] Afghanistan's Economic Fortunes
Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi, Minister of Finance, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Council on Foreign Relations
- [Feb 08] Moving to the Mainstream: Integrating Gender in Afghanistan's National Policy
Anna Wordsworth. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Feb 08] The Changing Face of Local Governance? Community Development Councils in Afghanistan
Hamish Nixon. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [16 April 07] Afghanistan's Fiscal Future and Challenges
Transcript of a Brookings Institution event featuring Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi, Minister of Finance, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- [21 Sep 06] A Conversation with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai
Council on Foreign Relations
- [21 Sep 06] Karzai Says Pakistan Holds Key to Ending Afghan Violence
Lionel Beehner. Council on Foreign Relations
- [20 Sep 06] Statement by His Excellency Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, to the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly
- [Sep 06] Moving Forward? Assessing Public Administration Reform in Afghanistan
Sarah Lister. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [15 May 06] Afghanistan's New Legislature: Making Democracy Work
International Crisis Group
- [Feb 06] The Prospects for Post-Conflict Afghanistan: A Call of the Sirens to the Country's Troubled Past
Thomas H. Johnson. Strategic Insights
- [22 Sep 05] A Conversation with Abdullah Abdullah
Abdullah Abdullah, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Council on Foreign Relations
TOP
Rebuilding Afghanistan
- [current] Afghanistan: Emergency Maps
ReliefWeb
- [Jan/Feb 13] Money Pit: The Monstrous Failure of US Aid to Afghanistan
Joel Brinkley. World Affairs
- [7 Jan 13] Managing Afghanistan's Political Transition Between Now and 2014
Caroline Wadhams. Center for American Progress
- [2 Jan 13] 10,000 Troops in Afghanistan Is Not Enough: Rightsizing NATO's Developmental Support Force Beyond 2014
LTG James M. Dubik, USA (ret.) and Jeffrey Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
- [Dec 12] Making the Afghan Civil-Military Imbalance Conducive to Democratization
Christian Bayer Tygesen. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [7 Nov 12] Afghanistan Development: Agencies Could Benefit from a Shared and More Comprehensive Database on U.S. Efforts
Government Accountability Office
- [Nov 12] Afghanistan: Humanitarianism in Uncertain Times
Prisca Benelli, Antonio Donini, and Norah Niland. Feinstein International Center
- [Oct/Nov 12] Slip-Sliding on a Yellow Brick Road: Stabilization Efforts in Afghanistan
Vanda Felbab-Brown. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
- [25 Oct 12] Afghanistan: Development Progress and Prospects after 2014
International Development Committee, House of Commons, United Kingdom
- [8 Oct 12] Afghanistan: The Long, Hard Road to the 2014 Transition
International Crisis Group
- [Oct 12] Economic Assistance in Conflict Zones: Lessons from Afghanistan
Ethan Kapstein and Kamna Kathuria. Center for Global Development
- [Oct 12] Contracting the Commanders: Transition and the Political Economy of Afghanistan’s Private Security Industry
Matthieu Aikins. Center on International Cooperation, New York University
- [18 Sep 12] The Afghan War: Creating the Economic Conditions and Civil-Military Aid Efforts Needed for Transition
Anthony H. Cordesman, Bryan Gold, and Sean T. Mann. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Sep 12] Lessons from Afghanistan's History for the Current Transition and Beyond
William Byrd. United States Institute of Peace
- [Aug 12] Winning Hearts and Minds in Uruzgan Province
Paul Fishstein. Feinstein International Center
- [Aug 12] Outlining a Diplomatic Strategy for Afghanistan's Political Transition: U.S. Policy Requires a More Coordinated Diplomatic and Political Approach to Match the Security Transition Efforts
Jed Ober and Brian Katulis. Center for American Progress
- [27 July 12] Mutual Accountability: Lessons and Prospects for Afghanistan Post-Tokyo
William Byrd. United States Institute of Peace
- [26 June 12] Afghanistan: The Failing Economics of Transition
Anthony H. Cordesman and Sean T. Mann. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [19 June 12] The Afghanistan Stabilisation Program (ASP): A National Program to Improve Security and Governance
Shahmahmood Miakhel. Middle East Institute
- [May 12] Afghanistan in Transition: Looking Beyond 2014 - Volume 2: Main Report
The World Bank
- [May 12] Beating a Retreat: Prospects for the Transition Process in Afghanistan
Barbara J. Stapleton. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [May 12] Disjointed Ways, Disunified Means: Learning from America's Struggle to Build an Afghan Nation
Lewis G. Irwin. Strategic Studies Institute
- [May 12] The A to Z Guide to Afghanistan Assistance, 2012
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [May 12] Russian Roulette: Corruption, Revenue, and the Post-Soviet Precedent for State Failure in Afghanistan
Brian Fishman. New America Foundation
- [24 April 12] Paying for Afghanistan's Security Forces During Transition: Issues for Chicago and Beyond
William Byrd. United States Institute of Peace
- [18 April 12] Afghanistan: The Uncertain Economics of Transition
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [April 12] Investing in Afghanistan’s Future
Shada Islam and Patricia Diaz. Friends of Europe
- [April 12] Local Institutions, Livelihoods and Vulnerability: Lessons from Afghanistan
Adam Pain and Paula Kantor. Overseas Development Institute
- [Jan 12] Strategic Support to Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan, 2001-2010
Christian Dennys and Tom Hamilton-Baillie. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [Jan 12] Winning Hearts and Minds? Examining the Relationship between Aid and Security in Afghanistan
Paul Fishstein and Andrew Wilder. Feinstein International Center
- [Dec 11] Peace and Development Efforts in Afghanistan: A Lost Decade
Patryk Kugiel. Polish Institute of International Affairs
- [Dec 11] Gambling on Reconciliation to Save a Transition: Perils and Possibilities in Afghanistan
Ashley J. Tellis. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [29 Nov 11] Towards a Self-Sustaining Afghanistan: An Economic Transition Strategy
The Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan NOTE: Full-text provided by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany
- [21 Nov 11] Transition in Afghanistan: Looking Beyond 2014
The World Bank
- [Nov 11] A Review of the 2001 Bonn Conference and Application to the Road Ahead in Afghanistan
Mark Fields and Ramsha Ahmed. Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
- [Nov 11] Painful Steps: Justice, Forgiveness and Compromise in Afghanistan’s Peace Process
Jay Lamey. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [29 Oct 11] Afghan Perception and Stagnation in Transformational Changes
Danny Pedersen. Small Wars Journal
- [Oct 11] Oral Histories: Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq and Afghanistan
United States Institute of Peace
- [Oct 11] Reconstruction Zones in Afghanistan and Haiti: A Way to Enhance Aid Effectiveness and Accountability
Graciana del Castillo. United States Institute of Peace
- [20 Sep 11] Afghanistan Governance: Performance-Data Gaps Hinder Overall Assessment of U.S. Efforts to Build Financial Management Capacity
Government Accountability Office
- [9 Sep 11] How Afghanistan is Rebuilding Itself
J. Alexander Thier. Council on Foreign Relations
- [4 Sep 11] One Team's Approach to Village Stability Operations
Rory Hanlin. Small Wars Journal
- [4 Aug 11] Aid and Conflict in Afghanistan
International Crisis Group
- [Aug 11] The Triple Compact: Improving Accountability in State Building
Ben Rowswell. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [Aug 11] The Need for a Political and Economic Transition Strategy in Afghanistan: Report from July 2011 Trip to Kabul, Afghanistan
John Podesta, Brian Katulis, and Caroline Wadhams. Center for American Progress
- [27 May 11] Going Outside the Wire: Liaising With Special Operation Forces to Rebuild Agriculture in Afghanistan
Daniel Miller. Small Wars Journal
- [22 May 11] Establishing a Banking System During Stability Operations – Roles for the Military? The Kosovo and Afghanistan Experience
Jan Willem Maas and David A. Anderson. Small Wars Journal
- [May 11] Afghanistan Transition and Kabul University: Winning Minds, Losing Hearts
Norine MacDonald, Alexander Jackson, and Jorrit Kamminga. International Council on Security Development
- [May/June 11] Economic Violence: It's Time to Change the Game
CPT Jonathan Pan, USA. Military Review
- [April 11] Winning Hearts and Minds? Examining the Relationship between Aid and Security in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province
Stuart Gordon. Feinstein International Center
- [March/April 11] Rebuilding Afghanistan's National Security Forces: Fighting Asymmetry with Symmetry
Maj Gen Michael R. Boera, USAF, and Lt Col Paul R. Birch, USAF. Military Review
- [Spring 11] A Truly Regional Economic Strategy for Afghanistan
Andrew C. Kuchins. Washington Quarterly
- [5 Feb 11] Supporting Sustainable Transition in Afghanistan: A Provincial Perspective
Jonathan Moss. Small Wars Journal
- [Feb 11] Beyond the Market: Can the AREDP Transform Afghanistan’s Rural Nonfarm Economy?
Adam Pain and Paula Kantor. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Jan 11] Running Out of Options: Tracing Rural Afghan Livelihoods
Paula Kantor and Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Jan 11] Afghanistan Beyond the Fog of Nation Building: Giving Economic Strategy a Chance
S. Frederick Starr. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program
- [Dec 10] Building Police Capacity in Afghanistan: The Challenges of a Multilateral Approach
LTG William B. Caldwell, IV, USA, and CPT Nathan K. Finney, USA. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [Dec 10] Afghanistan Media Assessment: Opportunities and Challenges for Peacebuilding
Eran Faenkel, Emrys Shoemaker, and Sheldon Himelfarb. United States Institute of Peace
- [15 Nov 10] Afghanistan Development: U.S. Efforts to Support Afghan Water Sector Increasing, but Improvements Needed in Planning and Coordination
Government Accountability Office
- [9 Nov 10] Afghanistan: U.S. Rule of Law and Justice Sector Assistance
Liana Sun Wyler and Kenneth Katzman. Congressional Research Service
- [Nov 10] Police Mentoring in Afghanistan: 2007-2009
William Rosenau. Center for Naval Analyses
- [Nov 10] Means to What End? Policymaking and State-Building in Afghanistan
Sarah Parkinson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Nov 10] A New Deal: A Plan for Sustainable Afghan Stability
Bijan R. Kian and Wayne Porter. New America Foundation
- [Nov 10] Winning Hearts and Minds? Examining the Relationship between Aid and Security in Afghanistan's Balkh Province
Paul Fishstein. Feinstein International Center
- [Nov 10] Afghanistan’s Willing Entrepreneurs: Supporting Private-Sector Growth in the Afghan Economy
Jake Cusack and Erik Malmstrom. Center for a New American Security
- [Nov 10] Poverty in Afghanistan Policy: Enhancing Solutions through Better Defining the Problem
Paula Kantor and Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Oct 10] Capacity-Building Through Policymaking: Developing Afghanistan’s National Education Strategic Plan
Dana Holland. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Oct 10] A Patchwork Strategy of Consensus: Establishing a Rule of Law in Afghanistan
Mark R. Hagerott, Thomas J. Umberg, and Joseph A. Jackson. Joint Force Quarterly
- [Sep 10] Afghanistan
Mark Sedra, ed. Security Sector Reform Monitor, Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [Sep 10] What if Kabul Bank Fails?
Raymond Gilpin. United States Institute of Peace
- [12 Aug 10] Afghanistan: U.S. Foreign Assistance
Curt Tarnoff. Congressional Research Service
- [19 July 10] Promises, Promises: A Briefing Paper for the Kabul Conference on Afghanistan
Ashley Jackson. Oxfam International
- [July 10] Is Capacity Being Built? A Study of Policymaking Process in the Primary and Secondary Education Subsector
Sayed Muhammad Shah. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [June 10] Lessons from USDA in Iraq and Afghanistan
Bernard Carreau, ed. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [May 10] Afghanistan: Humanitarianism Unraveled?
Antonio Donini. Feinstein International Center
- [May 10] Afghanistan
Mark Sedra, ed. Security Sector Reform Monitor, Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [May 10] Nation-Building Is Not for All: The Politics of Education in Afghanistan
Antonio Giustozzi. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [May 10] Leverage: Designing a Political Campaign for Afghanistan
Andrew Exum. Center for a New American Security
- [May 10] Governance in Afghanistan: Looking Ahead to What We Leave Behind
Colin Cookman and Caroline Wadhams. Center for American Progress
- [May 10] A Plan to Stabilize Afghanistan
Shahmahmood Miakhel. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [April 10] Speaking from the Evidence: Governance, Justice and Development - Policy Notes for the 2010 Kabul Conference
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [April 10] Two Interventions: Comparing Soviet and US-Led State-Building in Afghanistan
Martin Kipping. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [April 10] The Economic Imperative: Stabilizing Afghanistan Through Economic Growth
Nathaniel Fick and Clare Lockhart. Center for a New American Security
- [31 March 10] Waiting on a Civilian Surge in Afghanistan
John E. Herbst. Council on Foreign Relations
- [Feb 10] Ending the Agony: Seven Moves to Stabilize Afghanistan
Christopher Alexander. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [28 Jan 10] Beyond the Surge: A Political Strategy for Afghanistan?
Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event
- [27 Jan 10] Quick Impact, Quick Collapse: The Dangers of Militarized Aid in Afghanistan
ReliefWeb
- [Jan 10] Economic Development and Security for Afghanistan: Increasing Jobs and Income with the Help of the Gulf States
Guenter Overfeld and Michael Zumot. EastWest Institute
- [Jan 10] The State of the Afghan State
Anders Fänge. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Dec 09] Establishing Leadership on Civilian Assistance to Afghanistan
William B. Taylor, Jr. and J. Alexander Thier. United States Institute of Peace
- [Dec 09] The Northern Distribution Network and the Modern Silk Road: Planning for Afghanistan's Future
Andrew C. Kuchins, Thomas M. Sanderson, and David A. Gordon. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [4 Nov 09] Afghan National Security Forces: Shaping Host Country Forces as Part of Armed Nation Building
Anthony H. Cordesman and Adam Mausner. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Nov 09] Afghanistan
Security Sector Reform Monitor, Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [Nov 09] The Strategic Quagmire: Why Nation Building in Afghanistan is Failing
Anil Hira. Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
- [Nov 09] A Case Study in Security Sector Reform: Learning from Security Sector Reform/Building in Afghanistan (October 2002 - September 2003)
Jason C. Howk. Strategic Studies Institute
- [15 Oct 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs), H.R. 1318/H.R.1886/H.R. 2410 and S. 496: Issues and Arguments
Mary Jane Bolle. Congressional Research Service
- [July/Aug 09] Adult Education in Afghanistan: The Key to Political and Economic Transformation
CAPT Chad M. Pillai, USA. Military Review
- [30 July 09] U.S. Needs a Stronger Commitment to Improving Afghan Governance
Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
- [July 09] $pending the Development Dollar Twice: The Local Economic Impact of Procurement in Afghanistan
Richard A. Bontjer, Jennifer P. Holt, and Susan Angle. Peace Dividend Trust
- [July 09] Afghanistan
Mark Sedra, ed. Security Sector Reform Monitor, Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [July 09] Afghanistan: Looking Forward
Ronald E. Neumann. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [26 May 09] Nourishing Afghanistan's Agricultural Sector
Greg Bruno. Council on Foreign Relations
- [May 09] Policymaking in Agricultural and Rural Development
Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [April 09] Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan: The EU's Contribution
Eva Gross. European Union Institute for Security Studies
- [April 09] Reflections on the Paris Declaration and Aid Effectivess in Afghanistan
Rebecca Roberts. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [April 09] Mutual Accountability in Afghanistan: Promoting Partnerships in Development Aid?
Marieke Denissen. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [March 09] State-Building and Rule of Law: Lessons from Afghanistan?
Sari Kouvo. NATO Defense College
- [March 09] Provincial Reconstruction Teams: How Do We Know They Work?
Carter Malkasian and Gerald Meyerle. Strategic Studies Institute
- [March 09] A Pathway to Success in Afghanistan: The National Solidarity Program
John A. Nagl, Andrew M. Exum, Ahmed A. Humayun. Center for a New American Security
- [Spring 09] Enhancing the Footprint: Stakeholders in Afghan Reconstruction
Bas Rietjens, Myriame Bollen, Masood Khalil, and Sayed Fazullah Wahidi. Parameters
- [Feb 09] The Afghan National Development Strategy: The Right Plan at the Wrong Time
Jake Sherman. Journal of Security Sector Management
- [Feb 09] Afghanistan: From Insurgency to Stabilisation
Patrick Mercer, Richard Kemp, and Peter Middlebrook. Centre for Security Sector Management, Cranfield University
- [Feb 09] Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS) Formulation Process: Influencing Factors and Challenges
Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Jan 09] Enhancing Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations
Julian Lindley-French. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Jan 09] Delivering on Poverty Reduction: Focusing ANDS Implementation on Pro-Poor Outcomes
Paula Kantor and Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Dec 08] State Building, Security, and Social Change in Afghanistan: Reflections on a Survey of the Afghan People
Asia Foundation
- [Dec 08] The Seven Capital Sins of the Donor Community in Afghanistan
Serge Michailof. German Marshall Fund of the United States
- [Nov 08] The Role of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Counterinsurgency Operations: Khost Province, Afghanistan
Robert J. Bebber. Small Wars Journal
- [1 Oct 08] Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan and Iraq
Government Accountability Office
- [Oct 08] Stabilizing Afghanistan: Threats and Challenges
William Maley. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [8 July 08] Afghanistan Reconstruction: Progress Made in Constructing Roads, but Assessments for Determining Impact and a Sustainable Maintenance Program Are Needed
Government Accountability Office
- [July 08] Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for Waiver of Performance Criterion
International Monetary Fund
- [9 June 08] More Investment Will Bring Security to Afghanistan
Mahmoud Saikal. Council on Foreign Relations
- [June 08] Afghanistan: Not Lost, But Needs More Attention
Mohammad M. Stanekzai. United States Institute of Peace
- [May 08] The Role of Medical Diplomacy in Stabilizing Afghanistan
Donald F. Thompson. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
- [21 April 08] Uncertain Afghanistan
Yves Boyer and Franz Borkenhagen. Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
- [2 April 08] Success in Afghanistan: How to Define it, How to Make it Happen
Statement by Nick Grono, Deputy President (Operations), International Crsis Group, at a Policy Dialogue conference sponsored by the European Policy Centre
- [April 08] Afghanistan National Development Strategy: 1387-1391 (2008-2013) - A Strategy for Security, Governance, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- [April 08] Subnational State-Building in Afghanistan
Hamish Nixon. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [April 08] Implementation: A New Approach to Multinational Coordination in Afghanistan
Amb. Ronald E. Neumann. Stanley Foundation
- [March 08] Falling Short: Aid Effectiveness in Afghanistan
Matt Waldman. Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief
- [15 Feb 08] Who Should Lead Post-Conflict Reconstruction?
Craig Cohen and Col. Garland H. Williams, Council on Foreign Relations
- [Feb 08] Community Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: The Case for a National Strategy
Matt Waldman. Oxfam International
- [Feb 08] Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - Progress Report
International Monetary Fund
- [Feb 08] Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Selected Issues
Mohamad Elhage, et al. International Monetary Fund
- [Jan 08] Information and Communication Technologies for Reconstruction and Development: Afghanistan Challenges and Opportunities
Larry Wentz, Frank Kramer, and Stuart Starr. Center for Technology and National Security Policy
- [Jan 08] Afghanistan: Development and Humanitarian Priorities
Oxfam
- [Jan 08] Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan
Markus Gauster. George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
- [Nov 07] Afghanistan's Economy: On the Right Road, but Still a Long Way to Go
Beth Ellen Cole. United States Institute of Peace
- [Nov 07] Armed Nation Building: The Real Challenge in Afghanistan
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Oct 07] Overcoming the Obstacles to Establishing a Democratic State in Afghanistan
Dennis O. Young. Strategic Studies Institute
- [28 June 07] Getting the Fundamentals Right: The Early Stages of Afghanistan's WTO Accession Process
Oxfam International
- [May/June 07] Committing to Afghanistan: The Case for Increasing U.S. Reconstruction and Stabilization Aid
Craig C. Colucci. Military Review
- [24 May 07] Securing, Stabilizing, and Reconstructing Afghanistan: Key Issues for Congressional Oversight
Government Accountability Office
- [May 07] Public Health and Conflict Series: Rebuilding a Nation's Health in Afghanistan
Sarah Dye. United States Institute of Peace
- [April 07] Ten Counterinsurgency Commandments from Afghanistan
Greg Mills. Foreign Policy Research Institute
- [March 07] Breaking Point: Measuring Progress in Afghanistan
Seema Patel and Steven Ross. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [24 Oct 06] Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan: Canada's Leadership to Break the Cycle of Violence in Southern Afghanistan
Senlis Council
- [6 Oct 06] Voices of Afghanistan: An Evaluation Study
Seema Patel. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Fall 06] Retooling the Nationbuilding Strategy in Afghanistan
Vincent M. Dreyer. Joint Force Quarterly
- [8 Aug 06] Afghanistan: Keep up the War on Terror at its Source
Nick Grono and Joanna Nathan. International Crisis Group
- [1 Aug 06] The Reconstruction of Afghanistan: A Fight for Survival
Famid Sinha and Teresita Schaffer. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Aug 06] Urban Livelihoods in Afghanistan
Jo Beall and Stefan Schütte. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [6 July 06] Rescuing Afghan Reconstruction
Teresita C. Schaffer. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [1 June 06] Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
International Monetary Fund
- [25 May 06] Failed States, Governance and Nation-Building: The Case of Afghanistan
Greg Mills. Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies
- [10 May 06] Afghanistan - Sustainable Development of Natural Resources Project
World Bank
- [10 May 06] What Ails Afghanistan?
Chris Patten. International Crisis Group
- [April 06] Afghanistan's Uncertain Transition from Turmoil to Normalcy
Barnett R. Rubin. Council on Foreign Relations
- [March/April 06] Afghanistan: The Night Fairies
Sarah Chayes. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- [Spring 06] Rebuilding the Judicial Sector in Afghanistan: The Role of Customary Law
Amy Senier. Al Nakhlah
- [Feb 06] Afghans, International Community Chart A Joint Path Forward
United States Institute of Peace
- [1 Feb 06] The Afghanistan Compact
London Conference on Afghanistan
- [31 Jan 06] Afghans Likely to be Disappointed at London Conference
Amin Tarzi. Council on Foreign Relations
- [27 Jan 06] Living on a Life Support Machine: The Challenge of Rebuilding Afghanistan
Peter J. Middlebrook and Sharon M. Miller. Foreign Policy in Focus
- [27 Jan 06] Lessons in Post Conflict Reconstruction from the New Afghanistan Compact
Peter J. Middlebrook and Sharon M. Miller. Foreign Policy in Focus
- [17 Jan 06] Increased Security Amidst a Mounting Insurgency: A Close Look at the Afghan Security Paradox
Joseph Button. Center for Defense Information
TOP
The Taliban
- [Sep 12] Waiting for the Taliban in Afghanistan
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [Sep 12] Taliban Perspectives on Reconciliation
Michael Semple, et al. Royal United Services Institute
- [13 June 12] Reconciliation with the Taliban: Fracturing the Insurgency
Jeffrey Dressler. Insitute for the Study of War
- [26 April 12] The U.S. Must Move Cautiously on Taliban Reconciliation
Lisa Curtis. Heritage Foundation
- [6 April 12] Releasing Taliban Detainees: A Misguided Path to Peace
Jeffrey Dressler and Isaac Hock. Institute for the Study of War
- [26 March 12] Talking about Talks: Toward a Political Settlement in Afghanistan
International Crisis Group
- [1 March 12] Time for Afghan Political Settlement Talks: Reinvigorated Diplomatic Efforts with All Parties to the Conflict Is Needed
Colin Cookman and Caroline Wadhams. Center for American Progress
- [23 Feb 12] Co-Opting the Afghan Taleban
M. Shands Pickett. Small Wars Journal
- [23 Feb 12] Negotiating an Endgame in Afghanistan: Qatar Hosts the Taliban
Chris Zambelis. Jamestown Foundation
- [24 Jan 12] Taliban Talks, A Balancing Act
Bruce O. Riedel. Council on Foreign Relations
- [Jan 12] Thirty Years of Conflict: Drivers of Anti-Government Mobilisation in Afghanistan, 1978-2011
Antonio Giustozzi and Niamatullah Ibrahimi. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Dec 11] The Battle for the Schools: The Taleban and State Education
Antonio Giustozzi and Claudio Franco. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Dec 11] Beyond Power Sharing: Institutional Options for an Afghan Peace Process
Hamish Nixon and Caroline Hartzell. United States Institute of Peace
- [Dec 11] Gambling on Reconciliation to Save a Transition: Perils and Possibilities in Afghanistan
Ashley J. Tellis. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [Nov 11] Painful Steps: Justice, Forgiveness and Compromise in Afghanistan’s Peace Process
Jay Lamey. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [6 Oct 11] The Taliban in Afghanistan
Jayshree Bajoria. Council on Foreign Relations
- [22 Sep 11] Impact or Illusion? Reintegration under the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program
Deedee Derksen. United States Institute of Peace
- [Aug 11] Afghan Peace Talks: A Primer
James Shinn and James Dobbins. RAND Corporation
- [Aug 11] Seeking Solutions for Afghanistan: Third Report on the Abu Dhabi Process
EastWest Institute NOTE: Select the "Download the report" link to access the full-text
- [July 11] Reintegrating Afghan Insurgents
Seth G. Jones. RAND Corporation
- [July 11] The Layha: Calling the Taleban to Account
Kate Clark. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [11 May 11] Are The Taliban And Al Qaeda Allies?
Paul Overby. Small Wars Journal
- [May 11] The Battle for Afghanistan: Negotiations with the Taliban: History and Prospects for the Future
Thomas Ruttig. New America Foundation
- [April 11] The Insurgents of the Afghan North: The Rise of the Taleban, the Self-Abandonment of the Afghan Government and the Effects of ISAF's 'Capture-and-Kill Campaign'
Antonio Giustozzi and Christoph Reuter. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [April 11] The Neo-Taliban, Counterinsurgency and the American Endgame in Afghanistan
Shehzad H. Qazi. Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
- [March 11] Seeking Solutions for Afghanistan: Second Report on the Abu Dhabi Process
EastWest Institute NOTE: Select the "Download the report" link to access the full-text
- [24 Feb 11] Gauging U.S.-Taliban Talks
Steve Coll. Council on Foreign Relations
- [Feb 11] Inciting the Believers to Fight: A Closer Look at the Rhetoric of the Afghan Jihad
Florian Broschk. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Feb 11] Separating the Taliban from al-Qaeda: The Core of Success in Afghanistan
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn. Center on International Cooperation, New York University
- [Nov/Dec 10] Reintegration and Reconciliation in Afghanistan: Time to End the Conflict
LTC Mark E. Johnson, USA. Military Review
- [28 Nov 10] Afghanistan: Exit vs Engagement
International Crisis Group
- [Nov 10] The Battle for Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Kandahar
Anand Gopal. New America Foundation
- [8 Oct 10] Throwing the Book at the Taliban: Undermining Taliban Legitimacy by Highlighting Their Own Hypocrisy
Col Greg Kleponis, USAF. Strategic Studies Institute
- [Oct 10] The Ex-Taleban on the High Peace Council: A Renewed Role for the Khuddam ul-Furqan?
Thomas Ruttig. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Oct 10] Peace at All Costs? Reintegration and Reconciliation in Afghanistan
Tazreena Sajjad. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Oct 10] Dangerous Liaisons with the Afghan Taliban: The Feasibility and Risks of Negotiations
Matt Waldman. United States Institute of Peace
- [Oct 10] Building a Potemkin Village: A Taliban Strategy to Reclaim the Homeland
Jeff Donnithorne. Joint Force Quarterly
- [23 Sep 10] Stopping the Taliban's Momentum?
Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event
- [13 Sep 10] Navigating Negotiations in Afghanistan
Matt Waldman. United States Institute of Peace
- [Sep 10] Countering Taliban Information Operations in Afghanistan
Tim Foxley. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [Sep 10] Recalibrating the Afghan Reconciliation Program
Amin Tarzi. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [27 July 10] Time to Talk to the Taliban?
Matt Waldman. Council on Foreign Relations
- [July 10] The Taliban Beyond the Pashtuns
Antonio Giustozzi. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [June 10] How Tribal Are the Taleban? Afghanistan's Largest Insurgent Movement Between its Tribal Roots and Islamist Ideology
Thomas Ruttig. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [June 10] Negotiating with the Taliban: Issues and Prospects
Antonio Giustozzi. Century Foundation
- [June 10] The Northern Front: The Afghan Insurgency Spreading Beyond the Pashtuns
Antonio Giustozzi and Christoph Reuter. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [9 April 10] Taliban Spokesman Discusses U.S. Media and Military Strategies in Afghanistan
Abdul Hameed Bakier. Jamestown Foundation
- [April 10] Improvised Explosive Devices in Southern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan, 2002-2009
Alec D. Barker. New America Foundation
- [April 10] Golden Surrender? The Risks, Challenges, and Implications of Reintegration in Afghanistan
Matt Waldman. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [April 10] Financing the Taliban: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Catherine Collins and Ashraf Ali. New America Foundation
- [April 10] Afghanistan: Searching for Political Agreement
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [16 March 10] Reintegration versus Reconciliation in Afghanistan
Sumit Ganguly and Harinder Singh. S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
- [11 March 10] Taliban Reconciliation: Obama Administration Must Be Clear and Firm
Lisa Curtis. Heritage Foundation
- [March 10] Beradar, Pakistan, and the Afghan Taliban: What Gives?
Ashley J. Tellis. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [March 10] A Strategic Perspective on Taliban Warfare
Ehsan Mehmood Khan. Small Wars Journal
- [March 10] Afghan Reconciliation: Negotiations with the Taliban Will be Tricky, but Critical
Joseph J. Collins. Armed Forces Journal
- [17 Feb 10] Talking with Taliban - The Issue of "Reconciliation and Re-Integration"
Remarks by Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai, Advisor to the President of Afghanistan on Homeland Security, at the 7th Worldwide Security Conference, EastWest Institute
- [28 Jan 10] Negotiations and Reconciliation with the Taliban: The Key Policy Issues and Dilemmas
Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
- [Jan 10] Why is it Important to Talk to the Taliban?
Ali Iqbal. Small Wars Journal
- [21 Dec 09] The Quetta Shura Taliban in Southern Afghanistan: Organization, Operations, and Shadow Governance
Jeffrey Dressler and Carl Forsberg. Institute for the Study of War
- [Dec 09] The Taliban's Campaign for Kandahar
Carl Forsberg. Institute for the Study of War
- [25 Nov 09] The al-Qaeda-Taliban Nexus
Richard Barrett, Sajjan M. Gohel, Ronald E. Neumann, and Nigel Inkster. Council on Foreign Relations
- [25 Nov 09] Taliban Expand Insurgency to Northern Afghanistan
Wahidullah Mohammad. Jamestown Foundation
- [5 Nov 09] Reconciliation and Insurgency: Political Strategies in the Afghan War
Transcript of a Center for American Progress event
- [22 Oct 09] Who Are the Taliban?
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [15 Oct 09] Reconciliation with the Taliban: The View from Kabul
Remarks by Davood Moradian, Senior Policy Advisor to the Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies
- [29 Sep 09] Al-Qaida and Taliban Status Check: A Resurgent Threat?
Remarks by Richard Barrett, Coordinator, Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee, United Nations, at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- [Sep 09] Securing Helmand: Understanding and Responding to the Enemy
Jeffrey A. Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
- [12 Aug 09] Inside Kabul: Dispatch from Afghanistan
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [12 Aug 09] The Taliban and the Afghan Elections
Bruce Riedel. Brookings Institution
- [Aug 09] How Opium Profits the Taliban
Gretchen Peters. United States Institute of Peace
- [18 June 09] Reaction of the Afghan Taliban to the Pakistani Government's Offensive in Swat
Wahidullah Mohammad. Jamestown Foundation
- [2 June 09] The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
Foreign Press Center briefing by Amin Tarzi, Director of Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University
- [June 09] The Taliban's Winning Strategy in Afghanistan
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [15 April 09] How Dangerous Are the Taliban: Why Afghanistan is the Wrong War
John Mueller. Foreign Affairs
- [April 09] Reconciling with the Taliban: Toward an Alternative Grand Strategy in Afghanistan
Ashley J. Tellis. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [20 March 09] Six Experts on Negotiating with the Taliban
Shuja Nawaz, et al. Council on Foreign Relations
- [17 Feb 09] Micro-Diplomacy in Afghanistan: Disaggregating and Engaging the Taliban
Frank J. Cilluffo and Joseph R. Clark. Homeland Security Policy Institute
- [20 Jan 09] Afghanistan: From the Military to the Political Solution
Vinay Kumar Pathak and Syed Adnan Ali Shah. S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
- [Dec 08] Struggle for Kabul: The Taliban Advance
International Council on Security and Development
- [25 Nov 08] Going to "Plan B": Negotiations with Taliban May Shape a New Afghanistan
Chris Zambelis. Jamestown Foundation
- [2 Sep 08] Mass Attack on French Paratroopers Heralds New Taliban Tactics
Andrew McGregor. Jamestown Foundation
- [24 July 08] Taliban Propaganda: Winning the War of Words?
International Crisis Group
- [10 July 08] Fueling the Taliban: Poppies, Guns and Insurgents
Muhammad Tahir. Jamestown Foundation
- [23 May 08] The Father of the Taliban: An Interview with Maulana Sami ul-Haq
Imtiaz Ali. Jamestown Foundation
- [April 08] Insurgents in Afghanistan Have Mastered Media Manipulation
Sean D. Naylor. Armed Forces Journal
- [14 Dec 07] The Resurgence of the Neo-Taliban
Antonio Giustozzi. openDemocracy
- [12 Oct 07] Afghanistan: Necessity and Impossibility
Philip Jakeman. openDemocracy
- [16 Aug 07] Talk to the Taliban
Tarique Nizai. Foreign Policy in Focus
- [Aug 07] The Taliban and the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA)
Magnus Norell. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
- [14 June 07] Is Iran Abetting the Taliban?
Lionel Beehner. Council on Foreign Relations
- [June 07] The Taliban's Propaganda Activities: How Well is the Insurgency Communicating and What is it Saying?
Tim Foxley. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- [June 07] Taliban Politics and Afghan Legitimate Grievances
Senlis Council
- [24 May 07] A Report from the Field: Gauging the Impact of Taliban Suicide Bombing
Brian Glyn Williams. Jamestown Foundation
- [23 May 07] The Father of the Taliban: An Interview with Maulana Sami Ul-Haq
Imtiaz Ali. Jamestown Foundation
- [10 May 07] South Waziristan's Maulvi Nazir: The New Face of the Taliban
Hassan Abbas. Jamestown Foundation
- [3 May 07] Afghanistan's Veteran Jihadi Leader: An Interview with Qazi Mohammad Amin Waqad
Waliullah Rahmani. Jamestown Foundation
- [May 07] On the Edge of the Big Muddy: The Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan
Thomas H. Johnson. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
- [April 07] The Situation in Afghanistan: A Re-Evaluation Needed
Beth Cole and Catherine Morris. United States Institute of Peace
- [1 March 07] Cheney Attack Reveals Taliban Suicide Bombing Patterns
Brian Glyn Williams. Jamestown Foundation
- [31 Jan 07] Afghanistan's Local Insurgency
Seth Jones. RAND Corporation
TOP
Terrorism and Insurgency
- [Fall/Winter 11] Denying Safe Haven in Afghanistan
LTG William B. Caldwell, USA. Journal of International Security Affairs
- [22 Sep 11] Impact or Illusion? Reintegration under the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program
Deedee Derksen. United States Institute of Peace
- [July 11] The Militant Pipeline: Between the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Region and the West
Paul Cruickshank. New America Foundation
- [July 11] Reintegrating Afghan Insurgents
Seth G. Jones. RAND Corporation
- [27 June 11] The Insurgency in Afghanistan's Heartland
International Crisis Group
- [May/June 11] The Afghan Balance of Power and the Culture of Jihad
Lieut. Col. John J. Malvich, Canadian Army, and Daryl C. Youngman. Military Review
- [4 May 11] Bin Laden's Death and U.S. Afghan Policy
Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
- [4 April 11] Simply a Nirvana Fallacy: Seeing Everything from the Prism of Islamic Extremism in Afghanistan
Metin Turcan. Small Wars Journal
- [April 11] Reversing the Northeastern Insurgency
Anthony Bell, David Witter, and Michael Whittaker. Institute for the Study of War
- [April 11] The Neo-Taliban, Counterinsurgency and the American Endgame in Afghanistan
Shehzad H. Qazi. Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
- [Feb 11] Inciting the Believers to Fight: A Closer Look at the Rhetoric of the Afghan Jihad
Florian Broschk. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Feb 11] Separating the Taliban from al-Qaeda: The Core of Success in Afghanistan
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn. Center on International Cooperation, New York University
- [Oct 10] The Haqqani Network: From Pakistan to Afghanistan
Jeffrey A. Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
- [12 Aug 10] Al-Qaeda Ideologue Attiya Allah al-Libi Releases New Booklet Discussing Recruitment of Jihadis and the Use of Takfir
Murad Batal al-Shishani. Jamestown Foundation
- [8 July 10] Jihadi Views on General McChrystal's Resignation
Abdul Hameed Bakier. Jamestown Foundation
- [17 May 10] Al-Qaeda and Afghanistan in Strategic Context: Counterinsurgency versus Counterterrorism
Sebastian L. v. Gorka. Real Instituto Elcano
- [April 10] Al-Qaeda's Allies: Explaining the Relationship Between Al-Qaeda and Various Factions of the Taliban After 2001
Anne Stenersen. New America Foundation
- [March 10] Countering the IMU in Afghanistan
Andrew R. Feitt. Small Wars Journal
- [Feb 10] The Militant Pipeline: Between the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Region and the West
Paul Cruickshank. New America Foundation
- [25 Nov 09] The al-Qaeda-Taliban Nexus
Richard Barrett, Sajjan M. Gohel, Ronald E. Neumann, and Nigel Inkster. Council on Foreign Relations
- [29 Sep 09] Al-Qaida and Taliban Status Check: A Resurgent Threat?
Remarks by Richard Barrett, Coordinator, Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee, United Nations, at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- [20 March 09] The Troubled Afghan-Pakistani Border
Jayshree Bajoria. Council on Foreign Relations
- [30 Nov 08] The Implications of the Mumbai Attacks for Afghanistan
Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
- [21 Nov 08] Islamist Militancy in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Region and U.S. Policy
K. Alan Kronstadt and Kenneth Katzman. Congressional Research Service
- [7 Oct 08] Descent Into Chaos: The U.S. and the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
- [29 July 08] Al-Qaeda's Military Chief in Afghanistan Views the Ongoing Insurgency with Optimism
Michael Scheuer. Jamestown Foundation
- [23 June 08] Why NATO Must Win in Afghanistan: A Central Front in the War on Terrorism
Sally McNamara. Heritage Foundation
- [24 March 08] The Haqqani Network and Cross-Border Terrorism in Afghanistan
Imtiaz Ali. Jamestown Foundation
- [3 July 07] Al-Qaeda's New Leader in Afghanistan: A Profile of Abu al-Yazid
Michael Scheuer. Jamestown Foundation
- [Feb 07] The Islamic Emirate of Waziristan and the Bajaur Tribal Region: The Strategic Threat of Terrorist Sanctuaries
Eric Sayers. Center for Security Policy
- [22 Nov 06] Five Years after the Fall of the Taliban: Afghanistan and the War on Terror
Beth Ellen Cole and Jorge Aguilar. United States Institute of Peace
- [2 Nov 06] Combating the Ideology of Suicide Terrorism in Afghanistan
Waliullah Rahmani. Jamestown Foundation
- [21 Sep 06] Gulbuddin Hekmatyar: From Holy Warrior to Wanted Terrorist
Omid Marzban. Jamestown Foundation
- [18 July 06] Amanullah Guzar Attempts to Maintain Stability in Kabul
Waliullah Rahmani. Jamestown Foundation
- [18 July 06] Hell in Helmand
Irfan Husain. openDemocracy
- [11 July 06] Kabul Bombings Reveal Mounting Challenges Faced by the Karzai Government
Christopher Swift. Jamestown Foundation
- [July 06] Lessons in Terror: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch
- [June 06] Helmand at War: The Changing Nature of the Insurgency in Southern Afghanistan and Its Effects on the Future of the Country
Senlis Council
- [May 06] Cross Border Terrorism Issues Plaguing Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations
Rizwan Zeb. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
- [20 April 06] Kandahar Province and the New Wave of Violence
Waliullah Rahmani. Jamestown Foundation
- [27 March 06] Afghanistan and the Logic of Suicide Terrorism
Hekmat Karzai. Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies
- [23 March 06] Helmand Province and the Afghan Insurgency
Waliullah Rahmani. Jamestown Foundation
- [14 Feb 06] Afghanistan's New Security Threat
Esther Pan. Council on Foreign Relations
- [Feb 06] Afghan Insurgency Still A Potent Force
United States Institute of Peace
- [11 Jan 06] Afghan Public Overwhelmingly Rejects al-Qaeda, Taliban
World Public Opinion
- [19 Jan 06] Are We Winning the War on Terrorism? A Report from Afghanistan
Brookings Institution
- [Dec 05] Terrorism Havens: Afghanistan
Council on Foreign Relations
- [05] Terrorist Attacks in Afghanistan (Jan - May, 2005)
Afghanistan Watch
TOP United Nations
- [Jan 13] Treatment of Conflict-Related Detainees in Afghan Custody: One Year On
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- [Dec 12] Still a Long Way to Go: Implementation of the Law on Elimination of Violence against Women in Afghanistan
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [Nov 12] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012 - Summary Findings
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [July 12] Afghanistan: Mid-Year Report 2012 - Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [31 May 12] Press Statement: UNAMA Calls on the Parties to Prioritize Protection of Civilians and Accountability of Security Forces in Transition Period
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [April 12] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2012: Opium Risk Assessment for All Regions (Phase 1 & 2)
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Feb 12] Afghanistan: Annual Report 2011 - Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [Dec 11] Afghan People's Dialogue on Peace: Laying the Foundations for an Inclusive Peace Process
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [Oct 11] Treatment of Conflict-Related Detainees in Afghan Custody
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- [Oct 11] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2011: Summary Findings
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [21 Sep 11] The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security - Report of the Secretary-General
United Nations Security Council
- [July 11] Afghanistan: Midyear Report 2011 - Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [23 June 11] The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security - Report of the Secretary-General
United Nations Security Council
- [April 11] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2011: Winter Rapid Assessment All Regions - Phases 1 and 2
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [March 11] Afghanistan: Annual Report 2010 - Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [27 Dec 10] United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan: Background and Policy Issues
Rhoda Margesson. Congressional Research Service
- [14 Sep 10] The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security
Report of the Secretary-General to the United Nations General Assembly, Security Council
- [Sep 10] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2010: Summary Findings
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Aug 10] Afghanistan: Mid Year Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 2010
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [16 June 10] Report of the Secretary-General Pursuant to Paragraph 40 of Resolution 1917 (2010)
United Nations Security Council
- [June 10] Drug Use in Afghanistan: 2009 Survey
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [April 10] Afghanistan: Cannabis Survey 2009
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [March 10] Human Rights Dimension of Poverty in Afghanistan
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- [Jan 10] Afghanistan: Annual Report on Protection of Citizens in Armed Conflict, 2009
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [Jan 10] Corruption in Afghanistan: Bribery as Reported by the Victims
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [28 Dec 09] The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security
Report of the Secretary-General to the United Nations General Assembly, Security Council
- [Dec 09] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2009
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Nov 09] Afghanistan: 2010 Humanitarian Action Plan
- [Oct 09] Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Sep 09] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2009: Summary Findings
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [July 09] Afghanistan: Mid Year Bulletin on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 2009
United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan
- [July 09] AIHRC-UNAMA Joint Monitoring of Political Rights: Presidential and Provincial Council Elections - First Report, 25 April - 12 June 2009
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [23 June 09] The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security
Report of the Secretary-General, United Nations
- [Jan 09] Afghanistan: Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 2008
United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan
- [Jan 09] Afghanistan: Opium Winter Assessment
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [Aug 08] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008: Executive Summary
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [June 08] Justice for Children: The Situation for Children in Conflict with the Law in Afghanistan
United Nations' Children's Fund - UNICEF
- [28 April 08] Afghanistan: A New Start?
Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace featuring Kai Eide, Special Representative in Afghanistan, United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan
- [May 08] Afghanistan: Implementing Alternatives to Imprisonment, in Line with International Standards and National Legislation
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [6 March 08] The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security
Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council
- [9 Sept 07] Suicide Attacks in Afghanistan (2001 - 2007)
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
- [Aug 07] Afghanistan Opium Survey Executive Summary
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [17 July 07] The Situation in Afghanistan
Statement by the President of the Security Council
- [23 March 07] United Nations Security Council Resolution 1746 on Afghanistan
- [15 March 07] The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security
Report of the Secretary-General
- [Feb 07] Afghanistan: Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- [4 Dec 06] Report of the Security Council Mission to Afghanistan, 11 to 16 November 2006
- [9 Oct 06] Security Council Press Statement on Afghanistan
- [12 Sep 06] Resolution 1707 - the Situation in Afghanistan
United Nations Security Council
- [7 March 06] The Situation in Afghanistan and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
Report of the Secretary General to the Security Council
- [15 Feb 06] The Situation in Afghanistan
United Nations Security Council
- [n.d.] Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-establishment of Permanent Government Institutions
TOP
Research & Analysis
- [current] Afghanistan Index: Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan
Brookings Institution
- [23 Jan 13] Afghanistan: Meeting the Real World Challenges of Transition
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [14 Jan 13] Stalemate Looms in Afghanistan
Stephen D. Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
- [9 Jan 13] The 5 Most Important Questions About Afghanistan: Obama Can't Shrink the Difficult Issues When He Meets with Karzai this Week
Michael Kugelman. Foreign Policy
- [4 Jan 13] Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
Kenneth Katzman. Congressional Research Service
- [Jan 13] Creating Voids: Western Military Downscaling and Afghanistan's Transformation Phase
Florian P. Kühn. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [Jan 13] Eagle's Summit Revisited: Decision-Making in the Kajaki Dam Refurbishment Project
Noah Arjomand. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Jan 13] Caring for Their Own: A Stronger Afghan Response to Civilian Harm
Center for Civilians in Conflict
- [Jan 13] How It All Began: A Short Look at the Pre-1979 Origins of Afghanistan's Conflicts
Thomas Ruttig. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Winter 13] Thinking Long on Afghanistan: Could it be Neutralized?
Audrey Kurth Cronin. Washington Quarterly
- [30 Dec 12] The War in Afghanistan at the End of 2012: The Uncertain Course of the War and Transition
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [19 Dec 12] Afghanistan Drawdown Preparations: DOD Decision Makers Need Additional Analyses to Determine Costs and Benefits of Returing Excess Equipment
Government Accountability Office
- [6 Dec 12] In Brief: Next Steps in the War in Afghanistan? Issues for Congress
Catherine Dale. Congressional Research Service
- [6 Dec 12] Afghanistan Casualties: Military Forces and Civilians
Susan G. Chesser. Congressional Research Service
- [Dec 12] Stabilization Success in Afghanistan: The Challenges Within
John Acree. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [Dec 12] India's Changing Afghanistan Policy: Regional and Global Implications
Harsh V. Pant. Strategic Studies Institute
- [Dec 12] Peacebuilding Efforts of Women from Afghanistan and Iraq: Lessons in Transition
Kathleen Kuehnast, et al. United States Institute of Peace
- [15 Nov 12] Report of the Public Inquiry into the Kabul Bank Crisis
Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee
- [Nov 12] Afghanistan in 2012: A Survey of the Afghan People
The Asia Foundation
- [Oct/Nov 12] Slip-Sliding on a Yellow Brick Road: Stabilization Efforts in Afghanistan
Vanda Felbab-Brown. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
- [8 Oct 12] Afghanistan: The Long, Hard Road to the 2014 Transition
International Crisis Group
- [Oct 12] Afghanistan and the Regional Powers: History Not Repeating Itself?
Stina Torjesen. Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre
- [Oct 12] Contracting the Commanders: Transition and the Political Economy of Afghanistan’s Private Security Industry
Matthieu Aikins. Center on International Cooperation, New York University
- [26 Sep 12] 'Huge Uncertainty' in Afghanistan
Max Boot. Council on Foreign Relations
- [24 Sep 12] Enabling the Afghans to Take the Lead: Transition at the Tactical Level
Mike Simmering and Leo Wyszynski. Small Wars Journal
- [20 Sep 12] Six Conditions for an Effective Transfer of Power in Afghanistan
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [18 Sep 12] In Brief: Afghanistan – Insider Attacks
Louisa Brook-Holland. House of Commons Library, United Kingdom
- [6 Sep 12] Remaking Bagram: The Creation of an Afghan Internment Regime and the Divide over U.S. Detention Power
Open Society Foundations
- [4 Sep 12] Coalition, ANSF, and Civilian Casualties in the Afghan Conflict: From 2001 through August 2012
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Sep 12] Lessons from Afghanistan's History for the Current Transition and Beyond
William Byrd. United States Institute of Peace
- [Sep 12] No Time to Go Wobbly in Afghanistan: Focus on Stability, Not Exit Deadlines
Joseph J. Collins. Armed Forces Journal
- [Sep 12] Political-Military Lessons from U.S. Operations in Vietnam and Afghanistan
Michael J. Williams. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [28 Aug 12] Avoiding Creeping Defeat in Afghanistan: The Need for Realistic Assumptions, Strategy, and Plans
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [26 Aug 12] Buried Mines in Afghanistan
Sarah Chayes. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [17 Aug 12] Intel Sharing with Afghans Presents Challenges
Bob Couture. Small Wars Journal
- [8 Aug 12] Afghanistan after America: Possible Post-Drawdown Scenarios
Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
- [2 Aug 12] Iraq and Afghanistan: State and DOD Should Ensure Interagency Acquisitions Are Effectively Managed and Comply with Fiscal Law
Government Accountability Office
- [1 Aug 12] Contingency Contracting: Agency Actions to Address Recommendations by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
Government Accountability Office
- [Aug 12] Prospects for Indian-Pakistani Cooperation in Afghanistan
Sadika Hameed. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Aug 12] The Networks of Kunduz: A History of Conflict and their Actors, from 1992-2001
Nils Wörmer. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Aug 12] The War for Afghanistan
Ross Eventon. Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre
- [July 12] Five Lessons We Should Have Learned in Afghanistan: Strategic Issues in Policy Planning
Joshua Foust. American Security Project
- [July 12] Snapshots of an Intervention: The Unlearned Lessons of Afghanistan’s Decade of Assistance (2001-2011)
Martine van Bijlert and Sari Kouvo, eds. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [29 June 12] Avoiding Meeting Fatigue: How to Make the Numerous International Meetings on Afghanistan More Effective
William Byrd. United States Institute of Peace
- [26 June 12] Afghanistan: The Failing Economics of Transition
Anthony H. Cordesman and Sean T. Mann. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [25 June 12] What it will take to Secure Afghanistan
Max Boot. Council on Foreign Relations
- [19 June 12] Afghanistan from 2012-2014: Is a Successful Transition Possible?
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [June 12] Religion and Militancy in Pakistan and Afghanistan: A Literature Review
Mariam Mufti. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [May/June 12] Team Building: The Next Chapter of Airpower Command and Control in Afghanistan
Maj Gen Tod D. Wolters, USAF, and Lt Col Joseph L. Campo, USAF. Air and Space Power Journal
- [16 May 12] Measuring Success: Are We Winning? Over 10 Years in Afghanistan
Joshua Foust. American Security Project
- [14 May 12] The U.S. Cost of the Afghan War: FY2002-FY2013 - Cost in Military Operating Expenditures and Aid and Prospects for "Transition"
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [9 May 12] Measures of "Progress" in Afghanistan in the Spring of 2012: The Need for Strategic Focus, Transparency and Credibility
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [May 12] Afghanistan's Civil Order Police: Victim of Its Own Success
Robert M. Perito. United States Institute of Peace
- [May 12] Afghanistan as a Test of Canadian Politics: What Did We Learn from the Experience?
Stephen M. Saideman. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [May 12] Afghanistan Transition: Elevating the Diplomatic Components of the Transition Strategy at the Chicago NATO Summit and Beyond
Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, and Brian Katulis. Center for American Progress
- [May 12] Afghanistan–Pakistan–Iran: Radical Islam, Nuclear Weapons and Regional Security
Rana Banerji. Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
- [24 April 12] Paying for Afghanistan's Security Forces During Transition: Issues for Chicago and Beyond
William Byrd. United States Institute of Peace
- [18 April 12] Taliban, Spring Offensive and Transition in Afghanistan
Shanthie Mariet D’Souza. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
- [18 April 12] Afghanistan: The Uncertain Economics of Transition
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [April 12] Afghanistan and the International Community: Limitations of Engagement
Aryaman Bhatnagar. Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
- [April 12] Getting to Gold: How Afghanistan's First Mining Contracts Can Support Transparency and Accountability in the Sector
Global Witness
- [April 12] Death of an Uruzgan Journalist: Command Errors and ‘Collateral Damage’
Kate Clark. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [29 March 12] Operational Contract Support: Management and Oversight Improvements Needed in Afghanistan
Government Accountability Office
- [29 March 12] In Brief: Afghanistan - Timetable to 2014
Louisa Brooke-Holland. House of Commons Library, United Kingdom
- [20 March 12] The Koran Desecration and the Role of Religion in Conflict
Qamar-ul Huda. United States Institute of Peace
- [5 March 12] Quran Copy Burning in Afghanistan and the US ‘Exit’ Strategy
Shanthie Mariet D’Souza. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
- [March 12] Lessons from Women’s Programs in Afghanistan and Iraq
Kathleen Kuehnast, et al. United States Institute of Peace
- [March 12] China and Afghanistan: China’s Interests, Stances, and Perspectives
Zhao Huasheng. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Spring 12] From Arbaki to Local Police: Today's Challenges and Tomorrow's Concerns
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
- [Spring 12] Toward a Secure, Stable and Prosperous Afghanistan
Marc Grossman, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Ambassadors Review
- [27 Feb 12] Afghanistan: Improvements Needed to Strengthen Management of U.S. Civilian Presence
Government Accountability Office
- [23 Feb 12] Afghanistan Security: Department of Defense Effort to Train Afghan Police Relies on Contractor Personnel to Fill Skill and Resource Gaps
Government Accountability Office
- [17 Feb 12] How Will the Withdrawal of International Forces Affect Afghanistan?
Transcript of a Chatham House event featuring Fawzia Koofi, Member of Parliament, Afghanistan
- [9 Feb 12] Afghanistan: The Failed Metrics of Ten Years of War
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Feb 12] Regional Implications of NATO Withdrawal from Afghanistan: What Role for the EU?
Clare Castillejo. Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior
- [Feb 12] Truth, Lies and Afghanistan: How Military Leaders Have Let Us Down
LTC Daniel L. Davis, USA. Armed Forces Journal
- [Feb 12] Maximizing Chances for Success in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Michael E. O'Hanlon and Bruce Riedel. Brookings Institution
- [23 Jan 12] Battlefield Update: Task Force Dreadnaught in Maiwand District, Kandahar
Paraag Shukla. Institute for the Study of War
- [12 Jan 12] Fighting the Insurgents' War in Afghanistan
Christopher Sims. Small Wars Journal
- [Jan 12] What Do Afghans Want from the Police? Views from Helmand Province
Catherine Norman. CNA
- [Jan 12] Towards a Stable Afghanistan: The Way Forward
Royal United Services Institute and the Vivekananda International Foundation
- [Jan 12] What do Afghans Want From the Police? Views from Helmand Province
Catherine Norman. CNA
- [Jan 12] Healing the Legacies of Conflict in Afghanistan: Community Voices on Justice, Peace and Reconciliation
Emily Winterbotham. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Jan 12] Afghanistan 2012: The Beginning of the End Game
Azeem Ibrahim. Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
- [Winter 12] Rethinking U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi. Middle East Quarterly
- [Winter 12] Solving the Statebuilders' Dilemma
Ben Rowswell. Washington Quarterly
- [12] The ISAF Withdrawal from Afghanistan: Perceptions and Reactions of Regional Powers
Sandra Destradi, Nadine Godehardt and Alexander Frank. German Institute of Global and Area Studies
- [21 Dec 11] Traditional Dispute Resolution and Afghanistan's Women
Sylvana Q. Sinha. United States Institute of Peace
- [14 Dec 11] Need for New Afghan-Pak Border Rules
Richard Weitz. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
- [2 Dec 11] How Afghanization Can Work
Linda Robinson. Council on Foreign Relations
- [1 Dec 11] Afghanistan: The Timetable for Security Transition
Claire Taylor. House of Commons Library, United Kingdom
- [Dec 11] Afghanistan's Future: Foreign and Local Solutions for a Fought-Over Country
Alain Hanssen. EGMONT: Royal Institute for International Relations
- [Dec 11] Beyond Power Sharing: Institutional Options for an Afghan Peace Process
Hamish Nixon and Caroline Hartzell. United States Institute of Peace
- [Dec 11] The Next Fight: Time for a Change of Mission in Afghanistan
LTG David W. Barno, USA (ret.), Andrew Exum, and Matthew Irvine. Center for a New American Security
- [22 Nov 11] Women and the Afghan Transition
Ben Smith. House of Commons Library, United Kingdom
- [15 Nov 11] The Afghanistan-Pakistan War at the End of 2011: Strategic Failure? Talk Without Hope? Tactical Success? Spend not Build (And Then Stop Spending)?
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Nov 11] Russia's Strategies in Afghanistan and their Consequences for NATO
Marlene Laruelle. NATO Defense College
- [Nov 11] A Review of the 2001 Bonn Conference and Application to the Road Ahead in Afghanistan
Mark Fields and Ramsha Ahmed. Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
- [Nov 11] Afghanistan's Paramilitary Policing in Context: The Risks of Expediency
Antonio Giustozzi and Mohammad Isaqzadeh. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [24 Oct 11] India-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership: Beyond 2014?
Shanthie Mariet D'Souza. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
- [7 Oct 11] Warfighter Support: DOD Has Made Progress, but Supply and Distribution Challenges Remain in Afghanistan
Government Accountability Office
- [6 Oct 11] Measuring Success: Are We Winning? 10 Years in Afghanistan
Joshua Foust. American Security Project
- [Oct 11] India in Afghanistan: Valuable Partner of the West
Patryk Kugiel. Polish Institute of International Affairs
- [Oct 11] Afghanistan in 2011: A Survey of the Afghan People
The Asia Foundation
- [Oct 11] Lessons Learned? What Canada Should Learn from Afghanistan
David J. Bercuson, J. L. Granatstein, and Nancy Pearson Mackie. Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
- [Oct 11] Watching While the Frog Boils: Strategic Folly in the Afghan Security Sector
Christian Dennys. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [Oct 11] Wartime Suffering: Patterns of Violations in Afghanistan
Emily Winterbotham, et al. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Oct 11] Building Afghanistan's Security Forces in Wartime: The Soviet Experience
Olga Oliker. RAND Corporation
- [Oct 11] The Afghanistan Question and the Reset in U.S.-Russian Relations
Richard J. Krickus. Strategic Studies Institute
- [Oct 11] Rethinking Rural Poverty Reduction in Afghanistan
Paula Kantor and Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Oct 11] A Knock on the Door: 22 Months of ISAF Press Releases
Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Oct 11] Afghanistan Ten Years On: Slow Progress and Failed Promises
Amnesty International
- [20 Sep 11] Istanbul and Bonn Conferences: Building Blocks of the Afghan Transition Process
Hodei Sultan. United States Institute of Peace
- [19 Sep 11] The Cost of Kill/Capture: Impact of the Night Raid Surge on Afghan Civilians
Open Society Foundations and The Liaison Office
- [15 Sep 11] Iraq and Afghanistan: DOD, State, and USAID Cannot Fully Account for Contracts, Assistance Instruments, and Associated Personnel
Government Accountability Office
- [7 Sep 11] Afghan Concerns Over U.S. Staying Power
Taj Ayubi, Minister-Counselor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Council on Foreign Relations
- [6 Sep 11] Afghanistan Ten Years after 9/11: Counterterrorism Accomplishments while a Civil War is Lurking?
Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
- [1 Sep 11] Iran, US and the Afghan Conundrum
Shanthie Mariet D'Souza. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
- [Sep 11] The Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Refining U.S. Military Capabilities in Stability and In-Conflict Development Activities
Gregory Johnson, Vijaya Ramachandran, and Julie Walz. Center for Global Development
- [Sep 11] The Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan: Five Practical Recommendations
Gregory Johnson, Vijaya Ramachandran, and Julie Walz. Center for Global Development
- [Sep 11] Just Don't Call It a Militia: Impunity, Militias, and the “Afghan Local Police”
Rachel Reid and Sahr Muhammedally. Human Rights Watch
- [Sep 11] Another Pakistan is Needed: Can Openings Emerge Post-Osama bin Laden?
Ann Wilkens. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Sep 11] Pakistan's Future Policy Towards Afghanistan: A Look at Strategic Depth, Militant Movements and the Role of India and the US
Qandeel Siddique. Danish Institute for International Studies
- [Autumn 11] Operations Assessment in Afghanistan is Broken: What is to be Done?
Stephen Downes-Martin. Naval War College Review
- [Fall 11] The Missing Endgame for Afghanistan: A Sustainable Post-Bin Laden Strategy
David M. Abshire and Ryan Browne. Washington Quarterly
- [26 Aug 11] Populations as Complex Adaptive Systems: A Case Study of Corruption in Afghanistan
Tom Pike and Eddie J. Brown. Small Wars Journal
- [23 Aug 11] The Real Challenge in Afghanistan: Toward a Quantum Coin
A. Lawrence Chickering. Small Wars Journal
- [18 Aug 11] Pakistan's Kurram Offensive: Implications for Afghanistan
Jeffrey Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
- [12 Aug 11] China or the SCO: Who Will Supervise Afghanistan?
Jagannath P. Panda. Jamestown Foundation
- [10 Aug 11] The Emerging Faultlines of the U.S.-Afghan Strategic Partnership
Shanthie Mariet D’Souza. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
- [2 Aug 11] Iraq and Afghanistan: Actions Needed to Enhance the Ability of Army Brigades to Support the Advising Mission
Government Accountability Office
- [Aug 11] The Need for a Political and Economic Transition Strategy in Afghanistan: Report from July 2011 Trip to Kabul, Afghanistan
John Podesta, Brian Katulis, and Caroline Wadhams. Center for American Progress
- [Aug 11] Involving Central Asia in Afghanistan's Future - What Can Europe Do?
Marlène Laruelle. EUCAM: EU-Central Asia Monitoring - Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior and the Centre for European Policy Studies
- [Aug 11] Attitudes Towards the War on Terror and the War in Afghanistan: A Ten-Year Review
Karlyn Bowman and Andrew Rugg. American Enterprise Institute
- [25 July 11] Pakistan, the United States and the End Game in Afghanistan: Perceptions of Pakistan's Foreign Policy Elite
Moeed Yusuf, Hama Yusuf, and Salman Zaidi. United States Institute of Peace
- [21 July 11] Afghan Civil Society and a Comprehensive Peace Process
Lisa Schirch. United States Institute of Peace
- [20 July 11] Afghanistan: Actions Needed to Improve Accountability of U.S. Assistance to Afghanistan Government
Government Accountability Office
- [10 July 11] Hajigak: The Jewel of Afghan Mines
Javed Noorani. Integrity Watch Afghanistan
- [6 July 11] Operations in Afghanistan
Defence Committee, House of Commons, United Kingdom
- [July 11] Building the Security Force That Won't Leave
LTG William B. Caldwell, IV, USA, and CPT Nathan K. Finney, USA. Joint Force Quarterly
- [July 11] The Changing Face of Afghanistan, 2001-08
COL Deborah Hanagan, USA. Strategic Studies Institute
- [July 11] Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Art of the Possible - Conference Report: June 14, 2011
Robert D. Lamb, et al. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [28 June 11] Afghanistan: Responsible U.S. Transition Must Address Displacement Crisis
Lynn Yoshikawa and Matt Pennington. Refugees International
- [24 June 11] A Longer, Lighter Afghan Presence
Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
- [20 June 11] The War in Afghanistan: A Trip Report
Adam Mausner and Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [14 June 11] Dominoes on the Durand Line? Overcoming Strategic Myths in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Joshua Rovner and Austin Long. CATO Institute
- [13 June 11] The Police Challenge: Advancing Afghan National Police Training
Project 2049 Institute
- [8 June 11] Afghanistan: U.S. Efforts to Vet Non-U.S. Vendors Needs Improvement
Government Accountability Office
- [3 June 11] Afghan Perspectives on Achieving Durable Peace
Hamish Nixon. United States Institute of Peace
- [1 June 11] Afghan Advise and Assist Group
Julian Dale Alford and Daniel Zappa. Small Wars Journal
- [1 June 11] Towards Transition: Prospects for Progress in Afghanistan During 2011
Raspal Khosa. Australian Strategic Policy Institute NOTE: Select the "Download PDF" link to access the full-text
- [June 11] Understanding War in Afghanistan
Joseph J. Collins. National Defense University Press
- [June 11] Counterinsurgency Scorecard: Afghanistan in Early 2011 Relative to the Insurgencies of the Past 30 Years
Christopher Paul. RAND Corporation
- [June 11] Afghanistan 2011-2014 and Beyond: From Support Operations to Sustainable Peace
Luis Peral and Ashley Tellis, eds. European Union Institute for Security Studies and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [June 11] Afghanistan: The Impossible Transition
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [June 11] Beyond Afghanistan: A Regional Security Strategy for South and Central Asia
LTG David W. Barno, USA (ret.), Andrew Exum, and Matthew Irvine. Center for a New American Security
- [Summer 11] Right-Sizing Airpower Command and Control for the Afghanistan Counterinsurgency
Maj Gen Charles W. Lyon, USAF, and Lt Col Andrew B. Stone, USAF. Air and Space Power Journal
- [May/June 11] The Fight for the Village: Southern Afghanistan, 2010
LTC Brian Petit, USA. Military Review
- [13 May 11] Department of Defense Contractors in Afghanistan and Iraq: Background and Analysis
Moshe Schwartz. Congressional Research Service
- [May 11] Iran’s Balancing Act in Afghanistan
Alireza Nader and Joya Laha. RAND Corporation
- [May 11] Afghanistan Transition: The Death of Bin Laden and Local Dynamics
Norine MacDonald, Alexander Jackson and Jorrit Kamminga. International Council on Security and Development
- [May 11] The Takhar Attack: Targeted Killings and the Parallel Worlds of US Intelligence and Afghanistan
Kate Clark. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [6 May 11] The Most Dangerous Place on Earth: Transnational Crime in the FATA
Umar Riaz. Henry L. Stimson Center
- [May 11] Detained and Denied in Afghanistan: How to Make U.S. Detention Comply with the Law
Daphne Eviatar. Human Rights First
- [May 11] Creating New Facts on the Ground: Why the Diplomatic Surge Cannot Yet Produce a Regional Solution in Afghanistan
Ashley J. Tellis. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [27 April 11] Afghanistan's Trade with Central Asia Revives
Nicklas Norling. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
- [20 April 11] A New Afghanistan in a New International Construct
Giandomenico Picco. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
- [20 April 11] The Case for Joint Professional Security Education for the Afghan National Security Forces
Warren K. Vaneman. Small Wars Journal
- [15 April 11] Prospects for ‘Transition’ in the Afghan Security Sector: A Reality Check?
Shanthie Mariet D’Souza. Institute of South Asian Studies
- [April 11] What Drives Pakistan’s Interest in Afghanistan?
Christopher L. Budihas. Institute of Land Warfare, Association for the United States Army
- [April 11] Strained Alliances: Iran's Troubled Relations to Afghanistan and Pakistan
Janne Bjerre Christensen. Danish Institute for International Studies
- [April 11] Missed Opportunities: The Impact of DDR on SSR in Afghanistan
Caroline A. Hartzell. United States Institute of Peace
- [April 11] A New Voice for Afghan Women: Strengthening the Role of Women Lawmakers in Afghanistan
EastWest Institute NOTE: Select the "Download the full report" link to access the complete PDF
- [March/April 11] The Way Out of Afghanistan
Bing West. Military Review
- [31 March 11] The Shaping Coalition Forces’ Strategic Narrative in Support of Village Stability Operations
Scott Mann. Small Wars Journal
- [29 March 11] The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11
Amy Belasco. Congressional Research Service
- [15 March 11] Afghanistan: Time for Political Strategy to Capitalize on Military Gains
Lisa Curtis and Sally McNamara. Heritage Foundation
- [12 March 11] Seeing the Other Side of the COIN: A Critique of the Current Counterinsurgency (COIN) Strategies in Afghanistan
Metin Turcan. Small Wars Journal
- [12 March 11] The EU's Afghan Police Mission: Failing to Meet Commitments
Matthew Ince. Small Wars Journal
- [9 March 11] War in Afghanistan: Strategy, Operations, and Issues for Congress
Catherine Dale. Congressional Research Service
- [7 March 11] Corruption Reduction: A Foreign Policy Goal and Instrument
Amitai Etzioni. Harvard International Review
- [2 March 11] The UK's Foreign Policy Approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan: Volume I
Foreign Affairs Committee, House of Commons, United Kingdom
- [March 11] Northeast Asia in Afghanistan: Whose Silk Road?
Jae H. Ku, Drew Thompson, and Daniel Wertz. U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS and the Center for National Interest
- [March 11] Afghanistan Agonistes: The Many Stakes in a Thirty Years War
Jeffrey Laurenti. Century Foundation
- [March 11] Afghan Women at the Crossroads: Agents of Peace - Or Its Victims?
Orzala Ashraf Nemat. Century Foundation
- [March 11] Doing Pashto: Pashtunwali as the Ideal of Honourable Behavior and Tribal Life among the Pashtuns
Lutz Rzehak. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [March 11] Measuring Perceptions about the Pashtun People
Amin Tarzi and Robert D. Lamb. Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Marine Corps University
- [March 11] Afghanistan: Negotiating Peace
Century Foundation
- [March 11] The Comprehensive Approach in Afghanistan
ADM James G. Stavridis, USN, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and Commander, U.S. European Command. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [March 11] Ministerial Advisors: Developing Capacity for an Enduring Security Force
James A. Schear, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy and Stability Operations, LTG William B. Caldwell, IV, USA, Commanding General, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Training Mission - Afghanistan, and Frank C. DiGiovanni, Acting Director of Readiness and Training Policy and Programs for Personnel and Readiness, U.S. Department of Defense. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [March 11] The Commander as Investor: Changing CERP Practices
Rebecca Patterson and Jonathan Robinson. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [March 11] Development in Afghanistan's Counterinsurgency: A New Guide
Mark Moyar. Orbis Operations, LLC NOTE: Full-text made available by Small Wars Journal
- [Spring 11] The Afghanistan Conflict: Mission Creep and Its Discontents
Amitai Etzioni. Middle East Quarterly
- [Spring 11] The Afghanistan Conflict: Reforming the Village War
David Katz. Middle East Quarterly
- [Spring 11] Under the Shrinking U.S. Security Umbrella: India's End Game in Afghanistan?
C. Christine Fair. Washington Quarterly
- [24 Feb 11] Making a Sandwich in Afghanistan: How to Assess a Strategic Withdrawal from a Protracted Irregular War
Paul Rexton Kan. Small Wars Journal
- [13 May 11] The Department of Defense's Use of Private Security Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Background, Analysis, and Options for Congress
Moshe Schwartz. Congressional Research Service
- [1 Feb 11] Interview with Jeffrey Dressler: An Interim Assessment on the Campaign for Regaining Momentum in Helmand Province
Jeffrey Dressler and Octavian Manea. Small Wars Journal
- [Feb 11] Building Afghan Peace from the Ground Up
Marika Theros and Mary Kaldor. Century Foundation
- [Feb 11] Afghanistan Transition: Dangers of a Summer Drawdown
Norine MacDonald, Alexander Jackson, and Jorrit Kamminga. International Council on Security and Development
- [Feb 11] Making Peace in Afghanistan: The Missing Political Strategy
Minna Jarvenpaa. United States Institute of Peace
- [Feb 11] Improving Afghan War Strategy
Michael E. O'Hanlon. Brookings Institution
- [31 Jan 11] Motivational Interviewing: Improving Combat Advising to Strengthen Partnering with Afghan National Security Forces
James Cowan, Nengyalai Amalyar, and Mohammad Mustafa. Small Wars Journal
- [27 Jan 11] Maintain Momentum in Afghanistan
Lisa Curtis and James Phillips. Heritage Foundation
- [27 Jan 11] Afghanistan Security: Afghan Army Growing, but Additional Trainers Needed; Long-Term Costs Not Determined
Government Accountability Office
- [Jan 11] Peace Offerings: Theories of Conflict Resolution and Their Applicability to Afghanistan
Matt Waldman and Thomas Ruttig. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [Jan 11] Defining Success in Afghanistan
Kimberly Kagan, Jeffrey Dressler, and Carl Forsberg. American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War
- [Jan 11] Counterinsurgency in Helmand: Progress and Remaining Challenges
Jeffrey Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
- [Jan 11] Silent Kingmaker: The Need for a Unified Wartime Contracting Strategy
CPT Jonathan Pan, USA. Joint Force Quarterly
- [Winter 11] What Waziristan Means for Afghanistan
Andrew M. Roe. Middle East Quarterly
- [Winter 11] Plan A-Minus for Afghanistan
Michael O'Hanlon and Bruce Riedel. Washington Quarterly
- [17 Dec 10] Afghan Review Shows Troop Surge Working
Lisa Curtis and James Phillips. Heritage Foundation
- [17 Dec 10] Forging a Four-Sided Afghan Deal
Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
- [10 Dec 10] America's Wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq: The Challenge of Grand Strategy
Address by Anthony H. Cordesman, Center for Strategic and International Studies, to the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University
- [8 Dec 10] U.S. Armor in Afghanistan: Worth the Effort?
Irvin Oliver. Small Wars Journal
- [2 Dec 10] A Well Worn Path: The Soviet and American Approaches to the Critical Tasks of Counter Insurgency
Bart Howard. Small Wars Journal
- [2 Dec 10] How Afghanistan Ends: A Political-Military Path to Peace
Linda Robinson. Small Wars Journal
- [Dec 10] No Shortcut to Stability: Justice, Politics and Insurgency in Afghanistan
Stephen Carter and Kate Clark. Chatham House
- [Dec 10] Counterinsurgency in Kandahar: Evaluating the 2010 Hamkari Campaign
Carl Forsberg. Institute for the Study of War
- [Dec 10] Responsible Transition: Securing U.S. Interests in Afghanistan Beyond 2011
LTG David W. Barno, USA (Ret.) and Andrew Exum. Center for a New American Security
- [Winter 10] A Diplomatic Surge in Afghanistan, 2011-14
Daryl Morini. Strategic Studies Quarterly
- [Nov/Dec 10] Counterinsurgency in Nangarhar Province, Eastern Afghanistan, 2004-2008
Robert Kemp. Military Review
- [Nov/Dec 10] Identifying the Center of Gravity of Afghan Mentoring
MAJ David H. Park, USA. Military Review
- [28 Nov 10] Afghanistan: Exit vs Engagement
International Crisis Group
- [12 Nov 10] Rethinking an Afghanistan Exit Strategy
Richard L. Armitage. Council on Foreign Relations
- [11 Nov 10] Administration Must Unequivocally Drop Afghanistan 2011 Withdrawal Date
Lisa Curtis. Heritage Foundation
- [2 Nov 10] Afghanistan and the December Review: Making the Right Judgments
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Nov 10] Afghanistan Transition: Missing Variables
Norine MacDonald, et al. International Coucnil on Security and Development
- [Nov 10] Counterinsurgency on the Ground in Afghanistan: How Different Units Adapted to Local Conditions
Jerry Meyerle, Megan Katt and Jim Gavrilis. Center for Naval Analyses
- [Nov 10] Peacemeal or Peace Deal? NATO, Peace Talks and a Political Settlement in Afghanistan - NATO Heads of Government Summit, Lisbon, 19-20 November 2010
Oxford Research Group
- [Nov 10] Afghanistan at the Breaking Point
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [Nov 10] Realignment: Managing a Stable Transition to Afghan Responsibility - Recommendations for the United States and Its Allies
Caroline Wadhams, et al. Center for American Progress
- [Nov 10] Can You Help Me Now? Mobile Phones and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
Sheldon Himelfarb and Cecilia Paradi-Guilford. United States Institute of Peace
- [Nov 10] U.S. Strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan
Richard L. Armitage and Samuel R. Berger. Council on Foreign Relations
- [Nov 10] Iranian Influence in Afghanistan: Refugees as Political Instruments
Ahmad Majidyar and Ali Alfoneh. American Enterprise Institute
- [24 Oct 10] A Comprehensive Approach to Local Engagement in Afghanistan That May Also Mitigate IEDs
Eric T. Furey. Small Wars Journal
- [19 Oct 10] Planning a Military Campaign to Support Negotiations in Afghanistan
Bernard I. Finel. Small Wars Journal
- [15 Oct 10] Afghanistan and Iraq: DOD Should Improve Adherence to Its Guidance on Open Pit Burning and Solid Waste Management
Government Accountability Office
- [14 Oct 10] Grand Strategy in the Afghan, Pakistan, and Iraq Wars: The End State Fallacy
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [1 Oct 10] Iraq and Afghanistan: DOD, State, and USAID Face Continued Challenges in Tracking Contracts, Assistance Instruments, and Associated Personnel
Government Accountability Office
- [1 Oct 10] Combating Afghanistan's 'Malign Governance'
Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
- [Oct 10] Lessons not Learned: Civil-Military Disconnect in Afghanistan
Charles D. Allen. Armed Foces Journal
- [Oct 10] War on the Brink of Failure: Seven Obstacles Stand in the Way of Success in Afghanistan
LTC Daniel L. Davis, USA. Armed Forces Journal
- [Oct 10] Private Contractors in Conflict Zones: The Good, the Bad, and the Strategic Impact
T. X. Hammes. Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
- [Oct 10] Militancy in Pakistan’s Borderlands: Implications for the Nation and for Afghan Policy
Hassan Abbas. Century Foundation
- [Oct 10] U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan: Flawed Assumptions Will Lead to Ultimate Failure
Mark Schrecker. Joint Force Quarterly
- [Sep/Oct 10] Thoughts on the Battle for the Minds: IO and COIN in the Pashtun Belt
CDR Larry LeGreen, USN. Military Review
- [28 Sep 10] U.S. Military Casualty Statistics: Operation New Dawn, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Operation Enduring Freedom
Hannah Fischer. Congressional Research Service
- [24 Sep 10] The Civil Society-Military Relationship in Afghanistan
Lisa Schirch. United States Institute of Peace
- [20 Sep 10] Defense Logistical Support Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan: Issues for Congress
Valerie Bailey Grasso. Congressional Research Service
- [13 Sep 10] Afghanistan: Conditions-Based Redeployment
William B. Taylor, Jr. United States Institute of Peace
- [9 Sep 10] Worsening Outlook in Afghanistan
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [9 Sep 10] How America Corrupted Afghanistan: Time to Look in the Mirror
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [7 Sep 10] Khastan Tawanestan! - "We Can, We Will!": Shaping the Battlefield in Afghanistan in Dari and Pashto - Not English
LT Sean Stevens. Small Wars Journal
- [1 Sep 10] Afghanistan and Pakistan Sign Trade and Transit Agreement
Gulshan Sachdeva. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
- [Sep 10] Afghan National Security Forces: What It Will Take to Implement the ISAF Strategy
Anthony H. Cordesman, Adam Mausner, and Jason Lemieux. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Sep 10] The Battle for Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Helmand
Jean MacKenzie. New America Foundation
- [Sep 10] The Battle for Afghanistan: Militancy and Conflict in Zabul and Uruzgan
Martine van Bijlert. New America Foundation
- [Sep 10] Obama's War: Prospects for the Conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Bruce Riedel. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [Sep 10] Afghanistan: Long-Term Solutions and Perilous Shortcuts
Ali Ahmad Jalali. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [Sep 10] Afghanistan: Opportunities and Risks
Ashraf Ghani. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [Sep 10] A "Net Shift" for Afghanistan?
John Arquilla. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [Sep 10] Analytics and Action in Afghanistan
Thomas Blau and Daryl Liskey. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [Sep 10] Stabilization Operations Beyond Government: Joint Venture Public-Private Partnerships in Iraq and Afghanistan
Mattew W. Parin. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [Autumn 10] China's Policy on the Conflict in Afghanistan
Pan Guang. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
- [31 Aug 10] Another Way in Afghanistan: Overcoming the Current Flawed Strategy
John Ubaldi. Small Wars Journal
- [19 Aug 10] Afghanistan's National Security Forces
Greg Bruno. Council on Foreign Relations
- [17 Aug 10] Long Road Ahead for Afghan Security Forces
Jack Kem. Council on Foreign Relations
- [17 Aug 10] Conflicting Objectives for U.S. in Afghanistan
Gian P. Gentile. Council on Foreign Relations
- [16 Aug 10] A New Way Forward: Rethinking U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
Afghanistan Study Group
- [16 Aug 10] Improving High-Value Resource Contracting in Afghanistan
Raymond Gilpin and Ashley Pandya. United States Institute of Peace
- [12 Aug 10] Afghanistan's "Militia" Problem: Can Local Defense Forces Replace Private Security Firms?
Michael A. Innes. Jamestown Foundation
- [1 Aug 10] A Difficult Road Ahead: India's Policy on Afghanistan
Arjun Verma and Teresita Schaffer. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Aug 10] Seeking Solutions for Afghanistan: A Report on the Abu Dhabi Process
EastWest Institute NOTE: Select the "Click here to download the publication" link to access the full-text
- [July/Aug 10] Counterinsurgency and Beyond: Operationalizing the Civilian Surge
Stephen L. Danner, North K. Charles, and Wendul G. Hagler, II. Military Review
- [July/Aug 10] Persistent Security, Then Development
CPT Jonathan Pan, USA. Military Review
- [30 July 10] The Kabul Conference
Pamela Brown. Institute for the Study of War
- [22 July 10] Looking to the Future: Anticipating the Long-Term Impact of Afghanistan's Youth Bulge
Elizabeth Cutler. Henry L. Stimson Center
- [21 July 10] U.S.-U.K.: A Difficult Duet in Afghanistan
Charles A. Kupchan. Council on Foreign Relations
- [19 July 10] How to Fix Afghanistan
Syed Iqbal Hasnain. Henry L. Stimson Center
- [16 July 10] The Cameron-Obama White House Meeting: The U.S. and U.K. Must Reject a Timetable for the War in Afghanistan
Sally McNamara and Lisa Curtis. Heritage Foundation
- [14 July 10] Afghanistan Development: Enhancements to Performance Management and Evaluation Efforts Could Improve USAID's Agricultural Programs
Government Accountability Office
- [13 July 10] Draft Report on a New Strategy for Afghanistan
Committee on Foreign Affairs, European Parliament, European Union
- [12 July 10] Afghan National Security Forces: What It Will Take to Implement the ISAF Strategy
Anthony H. Cordesman, Adam Mausner, and Jason Lemieux. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [9 July 10] Marjah's Lessons for Kandahar
Jeffrey Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
- [8 July 10] China's Role in the Stabilization of Afghanistan
Col Greg Keponis, USAF. Strategic Studies Institute
- [1 July 10] Against Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
Hugh Gusterson. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- [July 10] Poverty Status in Afghanistan: A Profile Based on National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (NRVA) 2007/08
Ministry of Economy of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the World Bank
- [July 10] Northern Route Eases Supplies to US Forces in Afghanistan
International Institute for Strategic Studies
- [July 10] Iranian Influence in Afghanistan: Imam Khomeini Relief Committee
Ahmad Majidyar and Ali Alfoneh. American Enterprise Institute
- [July 10] Pakistan and Afghanistan: Understanding Islamabad's Objectives and Strategies
Sripathi Narayanan. Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
- [July 10] Obama's New "Af-Pak" Strategy: Can "Clear, Hold, Build, Transfer" Work?
C. Christine Fair. Centre for International Governance Innovation
- [July 10] Norway's Political Test in Faryab, Afghanistan: How to Lead?
Ståle Ulriksen. Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre
- [July 10] Afghanistan's Local War: Building Local Defense Forces
Steh G. Jones and Arturo Muñoz. RAND Corporation
- [July 10] Afghanistan: The Relationship Gap
International Council on Security and Development
- [July 10] Afghan Perceptions and Experiences of Corruption: A National Survey 2010
Integrity Watch Afghanistan
- [July 10] The Effect of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq
Luke N. Condra, et al. National Bureau of Economic Research
- [July 10] A Review of War Costs in Iraq and Afghanistan
Ryan D. Edwards. National Bureau of Economic Research
- [July 10] ARM Mid-Year Report: Civilian Casualties of Conflict, January-June 2010
Afghanistan Rights Monitor
- [July 10] What the International Community Should Focus on at the Kabul Conference: Progress in Afghanistan Depends on Political Reforms
Caroline Wadhams and Colin Cookman. Center for American Progress
- [July 10] Formulating an OSCE Summit Agenda: The Security Dimension
Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Institute for New Democracies
- [July 10] Obama's Afghanistan Policy: A Review of Literature
Debalina Chatterjee. Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies
- [30 June 10] Afghanistan: Standing Shoulder to Shoulder with the United States
Remarks by Liam Fox, Secretary of State for Defense, United Kingdom, at the Heritage Foundation
- [30 June 10] Pakistan's Gambit in Afghanistan
Daniel Markey. Council on Foreign Relations
- [22 June 10] The Runaway General
Profile of GEN Stanley A. McChrystal, USA, Commander, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, by Rolling Stone
- [22 June 10] The 'AfPak Policy' and the Pashtuns
Jon Lunn and Ben Smith. House of Commons Library, United Kingdom
- [18 June 10] Fear and Uncertainty in Afghanistan
Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
- [16 June 10] Realism in Afghanistan: Rethinking an Uncertain Case for the War
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [15 June 10] The Strategic Framework for U.S. Efforts in Afghanistan
Government Accountability Office
- [10 June 10] Will the Marines Push Into Northern Helmand?
Jeffrey Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
- [8 June 10] Russia and Afghanistan
Russian Analytical Digest
- [2 June 10] Assessing Peace Prospects in Afghanistan: The "Peace Jirga" and President Karzai's New Peace Plan
Caroline Wadhams and Colin Cookman. Center for American Progress
- [June 10] Fixing Afghanistan: What Role for China?
Stina Torjesen. Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre
- [June 10] Drawing the Lines: The Norwegian Debate on Civilian-Military Relations in Afghanistan
Arne Strand. Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre
- [June 10] Endgame for the West in Afghanistan? Explaining the Decline in Support For the War in Afghanistan in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, France and Germany
Charles A. Miller. Strategic Studies Institute
- [June 10] Tribes and Afghanistan: Choosing More Appropriate Tools to Understand the Population
Paul Meinshausen and Schaun Wheeler. Small Wars Journal
- [June 10] The Afghanistan-Pakistan Theater: Militant Islam, Security, and Stability
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross and Clifford D. May, eds. Foundation for Defense of Democracies
- [Summer 10] Afghanistan as a Bridge
Gulden Ayman. Islamabad Policy Research Institute
- [Summer 10] Time for a Strategic and Intellectual Pause in Afghanistan
Raymond A. Millen. Parameters
- [Summer 10] An Appraisal of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Strategy to Counter Terrorism
Malik Zafar Iqbal. Parameters
- [Summer 10] Terrorists and Submarines: Lessons for Afghanistan from the Antisubmarine Campaign of World War I
John T. Kuehn. Joint Force Quarterly
- [Summer 10] Colombia Can Teach Afghanistan (and the United States) How to Win
Robert Haddick. Air and Space Power Journal
- [Spring/Summer 10] The Perilous Slog of Asymmetric Warfare: A Better Way Forward in Afghanistan
Nick M. Masellis. Strategic Insights
- [28 May 10] Consolidating Private Security Companies in Southern Afghanistan
Carl Forsberg and Kimberly Kagan. Institute for the Study of War
- [19 May 10] Department of Defense, State Department, USAID, and NSC Reporting on the Afghan War
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [13 May 10] How to Gauge Karzai's U.S. Visit
Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
- [12 May 10] A Force in Fragments: Reconstituting the Afghan National Army
International Crisis Group
- [12 May 10] The Road to Successful Transition in Afghanistan: From Here to the December 2010 Review
William B. Taylor, Jr. and J. Alexander Thier. United States Institute of Peace
- [12 May 10] The Afghan Peace Jirga: Ensuring that Women Are at the Peace Table
Palwasha Hassan. United States Institute of Peace
- [11 May 10] Karzai Comes to Washington
Gilles Dorronsor. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [5 May 10] Afghanistan's Security Environment
Government Accountability Office
- [May 10] The Key to Success in Afghanistan: A Modern Silk Road Strategy
S. Frederick Starr and Andrew C. Kuchins, et al. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and the Silk Road Studies Program
- [May 10] Local Defence in Afghanistan: A Review of Government-Backed Initiatives
Mathieu Lefèvre. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [May 10] Beyond the Blanket: Towards More Effective Protection for Internally Displaced Persons in Southern Afghanistan
Susanne Schmeidl, Alexander D. Mundt, and Nick Miszak. Brookings Institution
- [May 10] Local Contours of Security in Afghanistan
Prakhar Sharma. Henry L. Stimson Center
- [May 10] Operation Moshtarak: Lessons Learned
International Council on Security and Development
- [May 10] Is a Regional Strategy Viable in Afghanistan?
Ashley J. Tellis and Aroop Mukharji, eds. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [May 10] Some Considerations for Planning and Executing a Military-Political Engagement in Afghanistan
William S. McCallister. Small Wars Journal
- [May 10] The Prospects for Security and Political Reconciliation in Afghanistan: Local, National, and Regional Perspectives - A Workshop Report
Matan Chorev and Jake Sherman. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and the Institute for Global Leadership
- [20 April 10] Shaping Afghan National Security Forces: What It Will Take To Implement President Obama's New Strategy
Anthony H. Cordesman, Adam Mausner, and Jeffrey Carson. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [12 April 10] Contingency Contracting: Improvements Needed in Management of Contractors Supporting Contract and Grant Administration in Iraq and Afghanistan
Government Accountability Office
- [9 April 10] Miscalculations in U.S. Afghan Offensive
David S. Rohde. Council on Foreign Relations
- [9 April 10] A Need to Shift U.S. Ambitions in Kabul
Richard N. Haass. Council on Foreign Relations
- [April 10] Can the EU Be More Effective in Afghanistan?
Joanna Buckley. Centre for European Reform
- [April 10] Shades of CORDS in the Kush: The False Hope of "Unity of Effort" in American Counterinsurgency
Henry Nuzum. Strategic Studies Institute
- [April 10] Afghanistan: A View from Moscow
Dmitri Trenin and Alexei Malashenko. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [April 10] Improving the Coalition's Understanding of 'The People' in Afghanistan: Human Terrain Mapping in Kapisa Province
Matthew Arnold. Small Wars Journal
- [April 10] Norway's Strategic Challenges in Afghanistan: How to Make a Difference?
Ståle Ulriksen. Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre
- [April 10] Improvised Explosive Devices: In Southern Afghanistan and Western Pakistan, 2002-2009
Alec D. Barker. New America Foundation
- [April 10] Afghanistan: Building the Missing Link in the Modern Silk Road
Andrew C. Kuchins, Thomas M. Sanderson, and David A. Gordon. Washington Quarterly
- [March/April 10] The Maneuver Company in Afghanistan: Establishing Counterinsurgency Priorities at the District Level
COL Michael R. Fenzel, USA. Military Review
- [30 March 10] Media and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
Sheldon Himelfarb. United States Institute of Peace
- [5 March 10] Health Initiatives and Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan
Leonard Rubenstein. United States Institute of Peace
- [2 March 10] Operation Moshtarak: Taking and Holding Marjah
Jeffrey Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
- [March 10] The Politics of the Comprehensive Approach: The Military, Humanitarian and State-Building Discourses in Afghanistan
Karsten Friis. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
- [March 10] Afghanistan's Religious Landscape: Politicising the Sacred
Kaja Borchgrevink and Kristian Berg Harpviken. Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre
- [March 10] Military Operations in Afghanistan and International Humanitarian Law
Christian Schaller. German Institute for International and Security Affairs
- [March 10] Mobilizing Identity in the Pashtun Tribal Belt
Ellen Haring. Small Wars Journal
- [March 10] Transnational Insurgencies and the Escalation of Regional Conflict: Lessons for Iraq and Afghanistan
Idean Salehyan. Strategic Studies Institute
- [March 10] Implementing a Population-Centric Counterinsurgency Strategy: Northeast Afghanistan, May 07-July 08
Nathan Springer. Small Wars Journal
- [March 10] The Tribal Path - A Better Alternative?
Ken Guest, 'RAM' Seeger, and Lucy Morgan Edwards. Small Wars Journal
- [March 10] Leaving the Civilians Behind: The "Soldier-Diplomat" in Afghanistan and Iraq
Edward Burke. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [Spring 10] Corruption and Social Trust in Afghanistan
Qiamuddin Amiry. al Nakhlah
- [Spring 10] The Afghan Issue in the Politics of Eurasian Great Powers: Russia, China, India and Iran
Alexander Knyazev. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
- [Spring 10] The Combined Air Power Transition Force: Building Airpower for Afghanistan
Brig Gen Michael R. Boera, USAF. Air and Space Power Journal
- [Spring 10] Community Defense in Afghanistan
Seth G. Jones. Joint Force Quarterly
- [23 Feb 10] Strangers at the Door: Night Raids by International Forces Lose Hearts and Minds of Afghans
Erica Gaston, Jonathan Horowitz, and Susanne Schmeidl. Open Society Institute and the Liaison Office
- [18 Feb 10] The Afghan Test Bed in "Marja": Key Tests of Victory Are Still Months and Years Away
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [18 Feb 10] Canada in Afghanistan
Remarks by Canadian Brig. Gen. Jonathan Vance, former Commander, Joint Task Force 5-09, at the Atlantic Council
- [17 Feb 10] National Consolidation and Security in Afghanistan and the Region
Remarks by Ali A. Jalali, Professor, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, at the 7th Worldwide Security Conference, EastWest Institute
- [16 Feb 10] Traditional Dispute Resolution and Stability in Afghanistan
John Dempsey and Noah Coburn. United States Institute of Peace
- [15 Feb 10] Altering Afghanistan's Balance of Power
Max Boot. Council on Foreign Relations
- [11 Feb 10] Operation Moshtarak: Preparing for the Battle of Marjah
Jeffrey Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
- [Feb 10] Making the Most of Afghanistan's River Basins: Opportunities for Regional Cooperation
Matthew King and Benjamin Sturtewagen. EastWest Institute NOTE: Link to the full-text is available above the executive summary
- [Feb 10] Half-Hearted: Trying to Win Afghanistan Without Afghan Women
Matt Pottinger, Hali Jilani, and Claire Russo. Small Wars Journal
- [27 Jan 10] Afghanistan Success Hinges on Karzai Reforms
Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
- [25 Jan 10] Afghanistan, NATO and European Security
Remarks by Bob Ainsworth, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom, at Chatham House
- [22 June 10] The Department of Defense's Use of Private Security Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Background, Analysis, and Options for Congress
Moshe Schwartz. Congressional Research Service
- [7 Jan 10] Private Security Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Legal Issues
Jennifer K. Elsea. Congressional Research Service
- [Jan 10] Build-Up of Afghan Security Forces Ill Advised
Helge Lurås. Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre
- [Jan 10] Conceptualizing AfPak: The Prospects and Perils
Ayesha R. Khan. Chatham House
- [Jan 10] The Northern Distirbution Network and Afghanistan: Geopolitical Challenges and Opportunities
Andrew C. Kuchins and Thomas M. Sanderson, et al. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Jan 10] Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan
MG Michael T. Flynn, USA, Capt Matt Pottinger, USMC, and Paul D. Batchelor. Center for a New American Security
- [Winter 10] Civil-Military Integration in Afghanistan: Creating Unity of Command
Joshua W. Welle. Joint Force Quarterly
- [Winter 10] A Better War in Afghanistan
John A. Nagl. Joint Force Quarterly
- [17 Dec 09] Courage and Commitment: Doing the Job in Afghanistan, Supporting Personnel at Home
Remarks by Bob Ainsworth, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom, at the Royal United Services Institute
- [15 Dec 09] U.S. Policy in Afghanistan
Transcript of a Council on Foreign Relations event featuring Richard C. Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- [2 Dec 09] One Tribe at a Time: A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan
MAJ Jim Gant, U.S. Army Special Forces NOTE: Publication available by permission by Steven Pressfield
- [2 Dec 09] Obama's New Strategy in Afghanistan: The Proof Will Lie in the Success of its Execution
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [2 Dec 09] Assessing the Afghan Surge
Greg Bruno, et al. Council on Foreign Relations
- [2 Dec 09] Obama's Withdrawal Date a Controversial Gambit
Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
- [2 Dec 09] President Obama's Afghanistan Speech: An Uncertain Message
Lisa Curtis and James Phillips. Heritage Foundation
- [2 Dec 09] President Obama's New Strategy in Afghanistan: Questions and Answers
Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
- [2 Dec 09] Statement on President Obama's Address to the Nation on Afghanistan
Center for American Progress
- [1 Dec 09] Estimating Funding for Afghanistan
Todd Harrison. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
- [1 Dec 09] The Afghanistan Decision
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [Dec 09] The Three Blind Spots of Afghanistan: Water Flow, Irrigation Development, and the Impact of Climate Change
David W. Rycroft and Kai Wegerich. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
- [Dec 09] Accelerating Combat Power in Afghanistan
LTG James M. Dubik, USA (ret.). Institute for the Study of War
- [Dec 09] From Identity Crisis to Identity in Crisis in Afghanistan
Zaman Stanizai. Middle East Institute
- [Dec 09] Afghanistan: Time to Curb the Law of Inertia
Luis Peral. European Union Institute for Security Studies
- [Dec 09] Obama's Surge: The United States, Australia and the Second War for Afghanistan
Anthony Bubalo. Lowy Institute for International Policy NOTE: Follow the instructions on the screen to access the full-text
- [Dec 09] A New Approach to the Delivery of U.S. Assistance to Afghanistan
William M. Frej and David Hatch. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
- [Nov/Dec 09] Refighting the Last War: Afghanistan and the Vietnam Template
Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason. Military Review
- [30 Nov 09] Increasing Small Arms Lethality in Afghanistan: Taking Back the Infantry Half-Kilometer
MAJ Thomas P. Ehrhart, USA. U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
- [18 Nov 09] The Afghan Strategy Checklist: How to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Credibility of a Defining Test of Obama's Leadership
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [9 Nov 09] U.S. Afghan Strategy: The Big Questions
Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event
- [6 Nov 09] Speech on Afghanistan
Remarks by Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, at the Royal College of Defence Studies
- [5 Nov 09] Afghanistan's Security Environment
Government Accountability Office
- [4 Nov 09] Afghan National Security Forces: Shaping Host Country Forces as Part of Armed Nation Building
Anthony H. Cordesman and Adam Mausner. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [3 Nov 09] More Afghan Troops Needed to Secure Afghanistan
Maj. Gen. Richard P. Formica, Commanding General, Combined-Security Transition Command - Afghanistan. Council on Foreign Relations
- [2 Nov 09] Finding a Way Forward in Afghanistan
Raspal Khosa. Australian Strategic Policy Institute NOTE: Select the "Download PDF" link to access the full-text
- [Nov 09] Fixing Bagram: Strengthening Detention Reforms to Align with U.S. Strategic Priorities
Sahr MuhammedAlly. Human Rights First
- [Nov 09] Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars: Afghan State-Building Views from the Margins
Jonathan Goodhand. Danish Institute for International Studies
- [Nov 09] Engaging Regional Players in Afghanistan: Threats and Opportunities
Shiza Shahid. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Nov 09] Reforming the Afghan National Army (ANA)
Jeff Haynes. Foreign Policy Research Institute
- [Nov 09] Fixing a Failed Strategy in Afghanistan
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [Nov 09] The MAGAI™ Construct and the Northern Distribution Network
Stephen Benson. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Nov 09] End-State Afghanistan: A European Perspective
Jo Coelmont. EGMONT: Royal Institute for International Relations
- [Nov 09] What Afghans Want
Andrew Garfield. Foreign Policy Research Institute
- [29 Oct 09] Briefing on Afghanistan
Transcript of a Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs event
- [28 Oct 09] Setting Out the Conditions for 'Success' in Afghanistan
Mark Sedra. Foreign Policy in Focus
- [21 Oct 09] Toward a Kilcullen-Biden Plan? Bounding Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
Tony Corn. Small Wars Journal
- [16 Oct 09] The Case for Humility in Afghanistan
Steve Coll. Foreign Policy
- [16 Oct 09] The Afghanistan Debate: Assessing the President's Policy Options
Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
- [14 Oct 09] General McCrystal's Confidential Assessment: A Case for Redefining Victory in Afghanistan
Roman Muzalevsky. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
- [8 Oct 09] The Danger of Delay in Afghan Policymaking
Bruce O. Riedel. Council on Foreign Relations
- [6 Oct 09] Afghanistan: Is it Mission Impossible?
Transcript of a Chatham House event
- [1 Oct 09] Contingency Contracting: DOD, State, and USAID Continue to Face Challenges in Tracking Contractor Personnel and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan
Government Accountability Office
- [Oct 09] Stabilization of Afghanistan: U.S.-NATO Regional Strategy and the Role of the SCO
Simbal Khan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
- [Oct 09] Afghanistan in 2009: A Survey of the Afghan People
The Asia Foundation
- [Oct 09] Caught in the Crossfire: The Pashtun Tribes of Southeast Afghanistan
Tom Gregg. Lowy Institute for International Policy NOTE: Follow the instructions on the screen to access the full text
- [Oct 09] Afghanistan 2011: Three Scenarios
Andrew M. Exum. Center for a New American Security
- [Oct 09] Unity of Effort: Key to Success in Afghanistan
Christopher J. Lamb and Martin Cinnamond. Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
- [29 Sep 09] Afghanistan's Hard Summer: The Impact on European Troop Contributing Nations
Toby Archer, ed. Finnish Institute of International Affairs
- [29 Sep 09] An Afghan Path Toward Stability
Clare Lockhart. Council on Foreign Relations
- [28 Sep 09] Resourcing an Afghan Strategy
Greg Bruno, et al. Council on Foreign Relations
- [17 Sep 09] The War in Afghanistan: Why Britain, America, and NATO Must Fight to Win
Liam Fox. Heritage Foundation
- [17 Sep 09] At the Center of the Storm: An Interview with Afghanistan's Lieutenant General Hadi Khalid - Part Two
Derek Henry Flood. Jamestown Foundation
- [15 Sep 09] America's Involvement in Afghanistan
Shahid Javed Burki. Institute of South Asian Studies
- [15 Sep 09] Winning in Afghanistan: How the US Will Win or Lose the War
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [12 Sep 09] The Levin "Plan": A Wrong Approach in Afghanistan
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [10 Sep 09] At the Center of the Storm: An Interview with Afghanistan's Lieutenant General Hadi Khalid - Part One
Derek Henry Flood. Jamestown Foundation
- [9 Sep 09] What's Really Happening in Afghanistan: A Report from the Field
Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [9 Sep 09] Afghanistan's Troop Deficit Problem
Kimberly Kagan. Council on Foreign Relations
- [3 Sep 09] Afghanistan after the Election: What Next?
Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event
- [Sep 09] Reforming the Afghan National Police
Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies and the Foreign Policy Research Institute
- [Sep 09] Escaping the "Graveyard of Empires": A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan
Malou Innocent and Ted Galen Carpenter. CATO Institute
- [Sep 09] Afghanistan: Thinking Through the Basics
Ronald E. Neumann. Stanley Foundation
- [Sep 09] Leaving the Civilians Behind: The 'Soldier-Diplomat' in Afghanistan and Iraq
Edward Burke. Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior
- [Sep 09] Securing Helmand: Understanding and Responding to the Enemy
Jeffrey A. Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
- [Sep 09] The Public Cost of Private Security in Afghanistan
Jake Sherman and Victoria DiDomenico. Center on International Cooperation, New York University
- [28 Aug 09] Resourcing for Defeat: Critical Failures in Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Resourcing the Afghan and Iraq Wars
Erin K. Fitzgerald and Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [20 Aug 09] Pakistan's Stake in the Afghan Election
Daniel Markey. Council on Foreign Relations
- [17 Aug 09] Obama's War
Jeffrey D. McCausland. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
- [17 Aug 09] Afghanistan: Stability on the Cheap?
Raj Shukla. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
- [17 Aug 09] Pakistani, Afghan, and Iranian Factors of Influence on the Central Asian Region
Sergey Luzianin. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
- [6 Aug 09] Resourcing for Defeat: Critical Failures in Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Resourcing the Afghan and Iraq Wars
Erin K. Fitzgerald and Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Aug 09] The 800-Pound Gorilla: The Interrelationship of Culture, Economics, and Security in Afghanistan
Bradley Boetig. Small Wars Journal
- [Aug 09] Going Tribal: Enlisting Afghanistan's Tribes
Dan Green. Small Wars Journal
- [Aug 09] Inception and Early Evolution of a Partnership Doctrine: Building Afghan Army Capacity while Fighting a Counterinsurgency
Edward C. Ledford. Small Wars Journal
- [Aug 09] Afghanistan's Police: The Weak Link in Security Sector Reform
Robert M. Perito. United States Institute of Peace
- [Aug 09] Impact of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on the US Military's Plans, Programs and Budgets
Todd Harrison. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
- [July/Aug 09] Tactical Leader Lessons Learned in Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom VIII
COL William B. Ostlund, USA. Military Review
- [July/Aug 09] Exploiting Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan
LT. COL Thomas Brouns, USA. Military Review
- [July/Aug 09] Afghanistan's Nangarhar Inc: A Model for Interagency Success
MAJ David K. Spencer, USA. Military Review
- [July/Aug 09] Rethinking IED Strategies: From Iraq to Afghanistan
CMDR John Moulton, USN. Military Review
- [30 July 09] The Future of Afghanistan and Pakistan: The Development Challenge
Remarks by Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [27 July 09] Afghan National Security Forces: Shaping the Path to Victory
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [22 July 09] The Afghanistan Campaign: Can We Win?
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [21 July 09] Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan
United Kingdom House of Commons, Foreign Affairs Committee
- [15 July 09] Afghanistan: When the War is Unwinnable
Greg Mills. S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
- [9 July 09] Can Afghanistan's New "Guardian" Militia Restore Security in the Provinces?
Wahidullah Mohammad. Jamestown Foundation
- [2 July 09] Troop Levels in the Afghan and Iraq Wars, FY2001-FY2012: Cost and Other Potential Issues
Amy Belasco. Congressional Research Service
- [July 09] Kunar and Nuristan: Rethinking U.S. Counterinsurgency Operations
Michael Moore and James Fussell. Institute for the Study of War
- [July 09] The Other Side: Dimensions of the Afghan Insurgency: Causes, Actors and Approaches to 'Talks'
Thomas Ruttig. Afghanistan Analysts Network
- [16 June 09] Policing in Conflict States - Lessons from Afghanistan
Speech by Nick Grono, Deputy President of the International Crisis Group, to the International Policy Commissioners' conference, in The Hague
- [8 June 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan: A Status Report
Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
- [5 June 09] Harnessing Iran's Role in Afghanistan
George Gavrilis. Council on Foreign Relations
- [June 09] Ineffective, Unprofessional, and Corrupt: The Afghan National Police Challenge
Andrew Legon. Foreign Policy Research Institute
- [June 09] Triage: The Next Twelve Months in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Andrew M. Exum, et al. Center for a New American Security
- [Summer 09] Afghanistan: The Path to Victory
Joseph J. Collins. Joint Force Quarterly
- [18 May 09] Military Operations: Actions Needed to Improve Oversight and Interagency Coordination for the Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan
Government Accountability Office
- [11 May 09] Winning the Information War in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Greg Bruno. Council on Foreign Relations
- [8 May 09] Afghanistan: Stocktaking, May 2009
Karl Habo and Klas Marklund. Institute for Security and Development Policy
- [4 May 09] Afghanistan - New Approaches towards Stabilisation
Luis Peral. European Union Institute for Security Studies
- [May 09] Confronting Child Labour in Afghanistan
Amanda Sim. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [May 09] Well-Being and Public Attitudes in Afghanistan: Some Insights from the Economics of Happiness
Carol Graham and Soumya Chattopadhyay. Brookings Institution
- [May 09] The Long March: Building an Afghan National Army
Obaid Younossi, et al. RAND Corporation
- [May 09] Winning in Afghanistan: Creating Effective Afghan Security Forces
Anthony H. Cordesman, Adam Mausner, and David Kasten. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [22 April 09] Interactive Map: Europe's Role in Afghanistan
Natalie Ondiak. Center for American Progress
- [21 April 09] Symposium on Afghanistan, Pakistan and U.S. National Security
Council on Foreign Relations
- [21 April 09] Afghanistan: Key Issues for Congressional Oversight
Government Accountability Office
- [16 April 09] Afghanistan's National Security Forces
Greg Bruno. Council on Foreign Relations
- [16 April 09] Afghan Defense Chief Unhappy with Obama Plan
Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, Minister of Defense, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Council on Foreign Relations
- [14 April 09] A Historical Case Study of U.S. Strategy Towards Afghanistan
Mark A. Burrough. U.S. Army War College
- [3 April 09] Caught in the Conflict: Civilians and the International Security Strategy in Afghanistan
Matt Waldman. Oxfam International, et al.
- [3 April 09] Uncertainty about New U.S. Policy Toward Pakistan, Afghanistan
Anthony Cordesman. Council on Foreign Relations
- [April 09] Indian Involvement in Afghanistan: Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block to Regional Hegemony?
Melanie Hanif. German Institute of Global and Area Studies
- [April 09] Land Conflict in Afghanistan: Building Capacity to Address Vulnerability
Colin Deschamps and Alan Roe. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [April 09] From AfPak to PakAf: A Response to the New U.S. Strategy for South Asia
Daniel Markey. Council on Foreign Relations NOTE: Link to the full-text is available above the overview
- [April 09] A Ten-Year Framework for Afghanistan: Executing the Obama Plan...And Beyond
Ashraf Ghani. Atlantic Council of the United States
- [April 09] Policymaking in Agriculture and Rural Development in Afghanistan
Adam Pain and Sayed Mohammad Shah. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [April 09] Back From the Brink? A Strategy for Stabilizing Afghanistan-Pakistan
Asia Society
- [April 09] Toward Reconciliation in Afghanistan
Michael O'Hanlon. Washington Quarterly
- [30 March 09] Iran and the Future of Afghanistan
Greg Bruno and Lionel Beehner. Council on Foreign Relations
- [23 March 09] Obama's Afghanistan Policy: Q&A Transcript
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [17 March 09] Global War on Terrorism: DOD Needs to More Accurately Capture and Report the Costs of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
Government Accountability Office
- [13 March 09] Afghanistan: New U.S. Administration, New Directions
International Crisis Group
- [11 March 09] Winning in Afghanistan: Creating Effective Afghan Security Forces
Anthony H. Cordesman, David Kasten, and Adam Mausner. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [9 March 09] Afghanistan Security: U.S. Programs to Further Reform Ministry of Interior and National Police Challenged by Lack of Military Personnel and Afghan Cooperation
Government Accountability Office
- [March 09] Afghanistan: Evolving U.S. Strategy
Noor ul Haq and Yasir Imtiaz, eds. Islamabad Policy Research Institute
- [March 09] Balancing Kinetic Effects of Airpower with Counterinsurgency Objectives in Afghanistan
Lt Col Eugene L. McFeely, USAF. U.S. Army War College
- [March 09] Afghanistan: Now You See Me?
Nicholas Kitchen, ed. London School of Economics and Political Science, IDEAS - Diplomacy and Strategy @ LSE
- [March 09] Shaping Europe's Afghan Surge
Daniel Korski. European Council on Foreign Relations
- [March 09] Sustainable Security in Afghanistan: Creating an Effective and Responsible Strategy for the Forgotten Front
Lawrence Korb, Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, and Sean Duggan. Center for American Progress
- [March 09] Swords and Ploughshares: Sustainable Security in Afghanistan Requires Sweeping U.S. Policy Overhaul
Reuben E. Brigety II. Center for American Progress
- [March 09] Afghanistan: Changing the Frame, Changing the Game
Yll Bajraktari and Peter Roady. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
- [Spring 09] Winning in Afghanistan
Ali A. Jalali. Parameters
- [18 Feb 09] The U.S. and Afghan Tragedy
Khushal Arsala and Stephen Zunes. Foreign Policy in Focus
- [11 Feb 09] Beyond Manas: Russia's Game in Afghanistan
Stephen Blank. Central-Asia Caucus Institute
- [9 Feb 09] Planning Victory in Afghanistan
Frederick W. Kagan. American Enterprise Institute
- [Feb 09] Airpower in Afghanistan: How a Faraway War is Remaking the Air Force
Rebecca Grant. Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies, Air Force Association
- [Feb 09] How is Afghanistan Different from Al Anbar?
Carter Malkasian and Jerry Meyerle. Center for Naval Analysis
- [Feb 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan On the Brink: Framing U.S. Policy Options
Frederick Barton, et al. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Jan/Feb 09] Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Afghanistan Edition
Nathaniel C. Fick and John A. Nagl. Foreign Policy
- [Jan/Feb 09] Sentinels of Afghan Democracy: The Afghan National Army
Samuel Chan. Military Review
- [30 Jan 09] Afghanistan Security: Lack of Systematic Tracking Raises Significant Accountability Concerns about Weapons Provided to Afghan National Security Forces
Government Accountability Office
- [23 Jan 09] Securing Afghanistan: Getting on Track
C. Christine Fair and Seth G. Jones. United States Institute of Peace
- [8 Jan 09] The Way Forward in Afghanistan
Transcript from the United States Institute of Peace event, "Passing the Baton: Foreign Policy Challenges and Opportunities Facing the New Administration"
- [Jan 09] Pakistan and Afghanistan: Worst-case Scenarios Are Not Unlikely
Laurent Murawiec. Hudson Institute
- [Jan 09] Focus and Exit: An Alternative Strategy for the Afghan War
Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- [Jan 09] Engaging Europe on Afghanistan
John K. Glenn and Oliver Mains. German Marshall Fund of the United States
- [Jan 09] Tell Me Why We're There? U.S. Interests and Objectives in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Nathaniel Fick, John Nagl, and Vikram Singh. Center for a New American Security
- [Jan 09] The Future of Afghanistan
J. Alexander Thier, ed. United States Institute of Peace
- [Jan 09] Transition Strategy: Regaining the Initiative
Joseph J. Collins. Armed Forces Journal
- [Winter 09] Irregular Warfare Lessons Learned: Reforming the Afghan National Police
Lewis G. Irwin. Joint Force Quarterly
- [09] The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: A Partner for Stabilising Afghanistan?
Matthew Hall. Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, Australian Defence College
- [09] Enemies, Irregular Adversaries, Spoilers, Non-compliant Actors: How the Definition of Actors Influences Afghanistan Strategies
Grant Dansie. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
- [09] U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan
Malou Innocent. Cato Handbook for Policymakers - Cato Institute
- [Winter 08/09] Reconsidering Afghanistan: Time for an "Azimuth Check"
Richard de Villafranca. Parameters
- [18 Dec 08] Memo to the President: Expand the Agenda in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
- [18 Dec 08] Policing in Afghanistan: Still Searching for a Strategy
International Crisis Group
- [Dec 08] Afghanistan: Japan's Experiences Revisited
Afghanistan Study Group Japan and the Japan Institute of International Affairs
- [Dec 08] Microcredit, Informal Credit and Rural Livelihoods: A Village Case Study in Balkh Province
Erna Anderson and Amanda Sim. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [Nov/Dec 08] Breaking the Impasse in Afghanistan: Problems with Neighbors, Brothers, and Guests
Samuel Chan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
- [Nov/Dec 08] From Great Game to Grand Bargain: Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Barnett R. Rubin and Ahmed Rashid. Foreign Affairs
- [17-18 Nov 08] From Coherent Policy to Coordinated Practice: Are We Delivering Coherently in Afghanistan?
Helge Lurås, Niels Nagelhus Schia, Stina Torjesen, and Ståle Ulriksen. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
- [17 Nov 08] A Tribal Strategy for Afghanistan
Greg Bruno. Council on Foreign Relations
- [13 Nov 08] Bureaucracies at War: Organizing for Strategic Success in Afghanistan
LTC Donald C. Bolduc, USA. U.S. Army War College
- [Nov 08] How Should the U.S. Execute a Surge in Afghanistan?
Robert Downey, Lee Grubbs, Brian Malloy, and Craig Wonson. Small Wars Journal
- [Nov 08] Unity of Command in Afghanistan: A Forsaken Principle of War
Ian Hope. Strategic Studies Institute
- [23 Oct 08] India-Afghanistan Relations
Jayshree Bajoria. Council on Foreign Relations
- [23 Oct 08] Prospects in Afghanistan 'Not Looking Good'
John Burns. Council on Foreign Relations
- [17 Oct 08] Confronting Two Key Challenges in Afghanistan
Karin von Hippel. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [9 Oct 08] Winning the War in Aghanistan: The Realities of 2009
Anthony Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [1 Oct 08] Contingency Contracting: DOD, State, and USAID Contracts and Contractor Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan
Government Accountability Office
- [Oct 08] The U.S. and Iran in Afghanistan: Policy Gone Awry
Barnett R. Rubin and Sara Batmanglich. MIT Center for International Studies
- [Oct 08] Afghanistan in 2008: A Survey of the Afghan People
The Asia Foundation
- [9 Sep 08] Follow the Money: Why the U.S. is Losing the War in Afghanistan
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic & International Studies
- [Sep 08] Programming Development Funds to Support a Counterinsurgency - Nangarhar, Afghanistan, 2006
Michelle Parker. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
- [Sep 08] Thwarting Afghanistan's Insurgency: A Pragmatic Approach toward Peace and Reconciliation
Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai. United States Institute of Peace
- [Fall 08] Interview with Said T. Jawad, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US: "Where the Road Ends the Taliban Begins"
Michael Mylrea. al Nakhlah
- [Fall 08] Afghanistan: Back to Basics
James S. Robbins. Journal of International Security Affairs
- [6 Aug 08] Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan: U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges This Fall and Beyond
Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
- [Aug 08] Future U.S. Security Relationships with Iraq and Afghanistan: U.S. Air Force Roles
David E. Thaler, et al. RAND Corporation
- [28 July 08] Analyzing the Afghan-Pakistan War
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [15 July 08] U.S. Forces in Afghanistan
JoAnne O'Bryant and Michael Waterhouse. Congressional Research Service
- [10 July 08] Iraq, Afghanistan and Beyond: Military Operations in the 21st Century
Remarks by Des Browne, Secretary of State for Defense, United Kingdom, at the Brookings Institution
- [July 08] Killing Friends, Making Enemies: The Impact and Avoidance of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
J. Alexander Thier and Azita Ranjbar. United States Institute of Peace
- [25 June 08] Recent Developments Fail to Change Afghan War Fundamentals
Richard Weitz. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
- [18 June 08] Afghanistan Security: Further Congressional Action May be Needed to Ensure Completion of a Detailed Plan to Develop and Sustain Capable Afghan National Security Forces
Government Accountability Office
- [June 08] Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
Seth G. Jones. RAND Corporation
- [30 May 08] Afghan-Turkmen Relations Improve
John C. K. Daly. Jamestown Foundation
- [21 May 08] Dilemmas of Democracy: Work in Progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Remarks by David Miliband, U.K. Foreign Secretary, at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event
- [14 May 08] The Emerging China-Afghanistan Relationship
Nicklas Norling. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
- [13 May 08] Afghanistan in Chinese Strategy Toward South and Central Asia
Tariq Mahmud Ashraf. Jamestown Foundation
- [1 May 08] Afghanistan's National Army: The Ambiguous Prospects of Afghanization
Antonio Giustozzi. Jamestown Foundation
- [17 April 08] Afghanistan's Vietnam Portent
Paul Rogers. openDemocracy
- [17 April 08] The War in Afghanistan: More Help Needed
James Phillips and Lisa Curtis. Heritage Foundation
- [17 April 08] Dostum: Afghanistan’s Embattled Warlord
Brian Glyn Williams. Jamestown Foundation
- [3 April 08] India and Pakistan in Afghanistan: Hostile Sports
Raja Karthikeya Gundu and Teresita C. Schaffer. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [March 08] From "Refugee Warriors" to "Returnee Warriors": Militant Homecoming in Afghanistan and Beyond
Kristian Berg Harpviken. Center for Global Studies, George Mason University
- [March 08] Afghanistan and Regional Instability: A Risk Assessment
Heidi Kjærnet and Stina Torjesen. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
- [Spring 08] No Sign Until the Burst of Fire: Understanding the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier
Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason. International Security
- [Spring 08] The Rise of Afghanistan's Insurgency: State Failure and Jihad
Seth G. Jones. International Security
- [14 Feb 08] Detention in Afghanistan: The Need for an Integrated Plan
Ashley Deeks. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [6 Feb 08] Afghanistan: The Need for International Resolve
International Crisis Group
- [Feb 08] US Policy in Afghanistan: SENLIS Council Recommendations
Senlis Council
- [Feb 08] Afghanistan - Decision Point 2008
Senlis Council
- [18 Jan 08] Afghanistan's Situation and its Impact in the Region and the World
Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event
- [16 Jan 08] Open Letter on Afghanistan to the House Committee on Armed Services
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [Jan 08] Winning the Invisible War: An Agricultural Pilot Plan for Afghanistan
Edward Borcherdt, Austin Carson, Frank Kennefick, James Moseley, William Taylor, Harlan Ullman, and Larry Wentz. Center for Technology and National Security Policy
- [Jan 08] Afghanistan Study Group Report: Revitalizing our Efforts Rethinking our Strategies
General James L. Jones, USMC, ret., and Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering. Center for the Study of the Presidency
- [Jan 08] Saving Afghanistan: An Appeal and Plan for Urgent Action
Atlantic Council of the United States
- [08] COIN Revisited: Lessons of the Classical Literature on Counterinsurgency and its Applicability to the Afghan Hybrid Insurgency
Harald Håvoll. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
- [08] Afghanistan: State and Society, Great Power Politics, and the Way Ahead - Findings from an International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007
Cheryl Benard, Ole Kværnø, Peter Dahl Thruelsen, and Kristen Cordell, eds. RAND Corporation
- [Winter 07/08] Afghanistan: Regaining Momentum
Ali A. Jalali. Parameters
- [10 Dec 07] The State of the Afghan Insurgency
Seth G. Jones. RAND Corporation
- [4 Dec 07] The Afghan-Pakistan War: A Status Report
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [3 Dec 07] Assessing the Afghan-Pakistani Conflict
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [8 Nov 07] Internal Displacement in Afghanistan
Khalid Koser. Brookings Institution
- [Nov 07] Stumbling into Chaos: Afghanistan on the Brink
Senlis Council
- [Nov 07] Still on the Way to Afghanistan? Germany and its Forces in the Hindu Kush
Sebastian Merz. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- [Nov 07] The Forgotten Front
Caroline P. Wadhams and Lawrence J. Korb. Center for American Progress
- [Nov 07] Preliminary Mineral Resource Assessment of Selected Mineral Deposit Types in Afghanistan
U.S. Geological Survey
- [15 Oct 07] Revitalizing U.S. Efforts in Afghanistan
Lisa Curtis and James Phillips. Heritage Foundation
- [5 Oct 07] The Forgotten Mission in Afghanistan Can Succeed. Here's How
Caroline Wadhams and Lawrence J. Korb. Center for American Progress
- [Oct 07] Coalition Warfare in Afghanistan: Burden-sharing or Disunity?
Timo Noetzel and Sibylle Scheipers. Chatham House
- [Sep/Oct 07] Fighting "The Other War:" Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan, 2003-2005
Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, USA Ret. Military Review
- [Sep 07] Afghanistan in 2007: A Survey of the Afghan People
The Asia Foundation
- [Sep 07] Enabling or Disabling? The Operating Environment for Small and Medium Enterprises in Rural Afghanistan
Saeed Parto, Anna Paterson and Asif Karimi. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [30 Aug 07] Reforming Afghanistan's Police
International Crisis Group
- [28 Aug 07] Improvised Explosive Devices in Iraq and Afghanistan: Effects and Countermeasures
Clay Wilson. Congressional Research Service
- [31 July 07] Estimated Costs of U.S. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Other Activities Related to the War on Terrorism
Congressional Budget Office
- [July 07] Cops or Robbers? The Struggle to Reform the Afghan National Police
Andrew Wilder. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
- [July 07] Shaping Commitment: Resolving Canada's Strategy Gap in Afghanistan and Beyond
D. Craig Hilton. Strategic Studies Institute
- [1 June 07] Sentinels of Afghan Democracy: The Afghan National Army
Samuel Chan. S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
- [Summer 07] Buying Time in Afghanistan
Carl Robichaud. World Policy Journal
- [30 May 07] The Afghanistan-Russia Rapprochement and its Geopolitical Implications
Dmitry Shlapentokh. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
- [23 May 07] Military Operations: The Department of Defense's Use of Solatia and Condolence Payments in Iraq and Afghanistan
Government Accountability Office
- [18 May 07] The Uncertain "Metrics" of Afghanistan (and Iraq)
Anthony Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [2 May 07] U.S. Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan: Beyond Partisan Failure and Dishonesty
Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
- [17 April 07] Afghanistan and Iraq: Two Sunni War Theaters Evolving into One?
Michael Scheuer. Jamestown Foundation
- [2 April 07] A Working Plan: Hope Isn't the Only Strategy for Afghanistan
Christopher Griffin. American Enterprise Institute
- [April 07] The Human Cost: The Consequences of Insurgent Attacks in Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch
- [8 March 07] Ending Afghanistan's Civil War
James Dobbins. RAND Corporation
- [6 March 07] Afghanistan: Forgetting the Lessons of History
Michael Scheuer. Jamestown Foundation
- [March 07] On a Knife Edge: Rapid Assessment Field Survey Southern and Eastern Afghanistan
Senlis Council
- [March 07] Canada in Afghanistan: Is it Working?
Gordon Smith. Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
- [March 07] Warlordism in Comparative Perspective
Kimberly Marten. International Security
- [21 Feb 07] Iranian Involvement in Afghanistan
Muhammad Tahir. Jamestown Foundation
- [5 Feb 07] Budgeting for Empire: The Effect of Iraq and Afghanistan on Military Forces, Budgets, and Plans
David Isenberg. Independent Institute
- [Feb 07] Pak-Afghan Relations 2005 - 2007
Noor Ul-Haq. Islamabad Policy Research Institute
- [30 Jan 07] Ending Afghanistan's Civil War
James Dobbins. RAND Corporation
- [Jan 07] Securing Tyrants or Fostering Reform? U.S. Internal Security Assistance to Repressive and Transitioning Regimes
Seth G. Jones, Olga Oliker, Peter Chalk, C. Christine Fair, Rollie Lal and James Dobbins. RAND Corporation
TOP News Sources & Online Journals
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Web Gateways
- [current] Afghanistan Watch
The Century Foundation
- [current] International Affairs: Afghanistan
The Century Foundation
- [current] Middle East Network Information Center
The Afghanistan page of MENIC (Middle East Network Information Center) gathers Web resources on Afghani news and current events, government and politics, history and archaeology, arts and culture, business and economy, the work of relief organizations in Afghanistan, and general information about the country.
- [current] War Report: Afghan Aftermath
Articles, documents and analyses from the Project on Defense Alternatives website
- [current] Afghanistan: The Latest
ReliefWeb website
- [current] Yahoo Country Directory - Afghanistan
- [n.d.] Understanding Afghanistan: Land in Crisis
National Geographic website Current news, maps, recent photographs, and lesson plans, including an extensive bibliography of the magazine's maps and articles (some available online) about Afghanistan, terrorist attacks, Islam, rescue work, and other topics. There is also an archived webcast of "National Geographic Explores a Changing World," a film screening and panel discussion on the Middle East and Afghanistan after the events of 9/11, accompanied by a discussion forum.
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Military Policy Awareness links
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