by Spencer Ackerman | Mar 6, 2013 | Monitor
One of the major metrics for the decade-long Afghanistan war is seriously flawed. Rather than fix the problem, the U.S.-NATO military command in Kabul has decided you simply shouldn’t see the data.
by Spencer Ackerman | Feb 26, 2013 | Monitor
Actually, the U.S. military is conceding, Taliban violence in Afghanistan didn’t decline last year. It was just a clerical error. Oops.
by David Axe and Noah Shachtman | Nov 13, 2012 | Monitor
Gen. John Allen in Afghanistan last December. Photo: NATO ISAF Updated 8:48 am. The sex scandal that brought down former Army general and CIA Director David Petraeus has expanded to engulf another senior official: Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S....
by Matthew Wallin | Oct 1, 2012 | Monitor
In an oped for the European online publication E!Sharp, Matthew Wallin analyzes whether President Obama’s efforts to improve relations with Europe have helped to achieve his security goals for Afghanistan: Are President Obama’s efforts to repair US-European...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 27, 2012 | Monitor
Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, commander of NATO and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan, looks out at Helmand Province, Aug. 25. Photo: Flickr/ISAF The U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan ended last week. Conditions in Afghanistan are mostly...