By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘I’d been impressed with Stan McChrystal’s leadership of coalition forces there: The additional troops I’d authorized had helped regain territory from the Taliban; the training of the Afghan army had ramped up; McChrystal had even convinced President Karzai to venture out beyond his palace and start engaging the population he…

By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* Introduction This article deals with public debate over the Afghanistan War during the President Obama made the decision in 2011 to withdraw the 30000 surge troops from Afghanistan, deployed just two years prior. To do so, the contributions of the actors/area experts from Congress, the press, think-tanks and other influential…

By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* The three-track strategy did not proceed as intended when it was implemented. The Afghan Government remained as corrupt as ever. Its leader, the Afghan President, disagreed with numerous components of the strategy and did not (or could not) fully cooperate. At local levels, in areas cleared by the military, the…