Well, it’s Friday. This is a special edition of the Pentagon Rundown in which we will look at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise that the latest Defense Department review of the U.S. military’s ...

Rashid, Ahmed, Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (United Kingdom: Penguin Publishing Group, 2008). Salt, Alexander, ...

During the war in Afghanistan, at an isolated Marine Corps outpost known as OP Rock, a company of US Marines face an enemy of Taliban and something otherworldly, the Djinn. But what did they really ...

I grew up not far from Bagram Airfield, which is located about 60 kilometers north of my childhood home in Kabul. Yet despite that, and the years I spent reporting on the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, ...

An interview with Paul D. Miller about his upcoming book “Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan.” In an upcoming book, slated for release in October 2025, Paul D.

As the fourth anniversary of the fall of Kabul approaches, the congressionally chartered commission studying all 20 years of the war in Afghanistan heard from veterans Tuesday about their experiences ...

Peterson said the U.S. would have been successful in Afghanistan if its mission simply had been to destroy the network of terrorists there that was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. However, ...