CEPSAF
Centre for Peace & Security Afghanistan – CEPSAF: Greater Middle Eastern Research and Analysis
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Why Karzai Clashed with the US and NATO and What It Meant
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Photo Credit: Hamid Karzai portrait (2002) – Public domain (USAID/US federal government) By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘After our assault on Kabul, the United States had brought Karzai and his advisors back and installed them in power―functional expatriates we hoped would serve as the Afghan face of a new, nonmilitant order…[T]hey did their best to…
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After Evaluations, Bush Shifts Afghanistan ‘CT’ Strategy to COIN
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By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘Afghanistan ‘is slipping toward failure. The Taliban is back, violence is up, drug production is booming and the Afghans are losing faith in their government. All the legs of strategy ─ security, counternarcotics efforts, reconstruction and governance ─ have gone wobbly. If we should have had a surge anywhere, it…