by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Feb 19, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been training his verbal artillery at the U.S. for the last couple of years. Barrage after barrage of bitter recrimination. He’s nearing the end of his second term as President of Afghanistan. Unless he has a...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jun 23, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeWhat on earth was Barack Obama thinking of when his people were negotiating terms for meetings with the Taliban in Doha? Talk about tossing out the baby with the bath water! There were only two good reasons for the U.S. to invade Afghanistan,...
by editor | May 18, 2013 | Afghanistan, COMOPS Journal, Government, Publications
by Steven R. Corman Here is a quiz: In what South Asian war did a country invade to pursue its own interests, overthrow an existing government and establish a client regime, encounter effective resistance by local insurgents despite the superiority of its army, fight...
by Noah Shachtman | May 14, 2013 | Monitor
From torture allegations to dead U.S. soldiers, it’s been a brutal few days in Afghanistan. But to the admiral in charge of America’s special operation forces, things are going rather well there.
by Spencer Ackerman | Apr 29, 2013 | Monitor
Let Hamid Karzai be a cautionary tale. The U.S. can’t buy foreign allies. It can only rent them. And even then, the cash undermines Washington’s broader goals.