The U.S. war in Afghanistan started off with rousing optimism in the fall of 2001, but by the end of the decade has devolved into a quagmire for U.S. troops and potential disaster for the Afghan people. For all its …
The United States has been fighting the war in Afghanistan for more than eight years. That’s longer than U.S. participation in the Second World War or the Iraq War. By the end of 2010, it will have surpassed the length …
This past April, the U.S. Department of Defense released an inauspicious two-page “Fact Sheet” outlining the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), a comprehensive examination of the U.S. military’s strategic posture. Such a document rarely raises eyebrows outside the cloistered world …
