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The lessons of America’s longest war: Afghanistan still a question mark after 17 years of fighting

In the beginning, it all looked like a brilliant military victory and a validation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s new way of fighting and winning modern wars. Less that a month after the Sept. ... read more

America’s (Near) Thirty Years’ War

What choice do I have, since my subject is the Afghan War (America’s second Afghan War, no less)? I began writing about that war in October 2001, almost 17 years ago, just after the U.S. invasion of A... read more

On Afghanistan, generals know the lessons from Charlie Wilson's war

The views expressed by contributors are their own and not the view of The Hill The Twin Towers fell 16 years ago, and our country has been engaged in Afghanistan practically ... for tackling our natio... read more

5 lessons of the Iraq war

The American ... to that question would be a decided, “no”. Yet, it was the most significant military conflict that the United States has been in since the Vietnam War, and so it is worth asking – ten ... read more

The Goal of ‘Not Losing’ in Afghanistan

Exclusive: America’s adventures in Afghanistan – dating back to the 1980s – have led to one disaster after another with President ... less controversial issue: the war in Afghanistan. That war, the lo... read more

Afghanistan Is Now Officially James Mattis’ War

In response, four weeks after ... is now officially James Mattis’ war, with all the attendant risks of reward and failure. Regardless, in the longer term something clearly remains the same: Now offici... read more

17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong

Polling Report lists no polls at all on Afghanistan ... question of why it wasn’t done 5, 10, or 17 years ago. The war is not the longest U.S. war ever. Among those who know the war exists, a group I ... read more

The Author of the Civil War

In the first half of the 19th century, America caught a highly infectious case of what Mark Twain would ... leading up to the Civil War. And his influence did not end once the fighting began. If the l... read more

Losing the War in Afghanistan

America's longest war began on October 7 ... Obama's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, after he was appointed in January 2009. Summer Coish had spent years in the region running a b... read more

Making Afghanistan Great Again

Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images Addressing the subject of Afghanistan this week, President Donald Trump said that he’d like “to find out why we’ve been there for 17 years ... War. But he’s shown l... read more

CNN Poll: Afghanistan war arguably most unpopular in U.S. history

Washington (CNN) - Support for the war in Afghanistan has dipped below 20%, according to a new national poll, making the country's longest military conflict arguably its most unpopular ... America sho... read more

The Illusion of War Without Casualties

Even when the U.S. was losing 900-1,000 troops killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan each year from 2004 to 2007, there was much more public debate and vocal opposition to war than there is now, bu... read more