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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

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

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

Afghanistan Is Now Officially James Mattis’ War

But for academics like me who spend their time studying American strategic policy, it provided few real surprises. Rather, it merely signaled the latest stage in the cycle of the longest ... even year... read more

For the U.S. Military, ‘Winning’ Now Means Staying at War as Long as Possible

Then, 10 years after the last U.S. troops ... So, quite obviously, winning a war isn’t a prerequisite for a winning parade. And that’s only one of many lessons the disastrous American War in Vietnam s... 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

Ken Burns’ Vietnam War: An Object Lesson in the Failures of the Objective Lens

Just like Bank of America, in other words, Ken Burns ... lessons of Vietnam with its bipartisan, Groundhog Day war policy in Afghanistan. As Drake University political science professor, David Skidmor... read more

The uncounted victims from Iraq to Afghanistan

It got started because we were listening to press conferences by the American-led coalition ... U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan is now the longest war the U.S. has ever been involved in. A... 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