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This section contains the ten most-recently added documents to this MiPAL. All recently included items can also be found by subject division below.

• [3 Feb 10] Briefing on Recent Trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Tom Vilsack, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
• [2 Feb 10] Delays Will Not Improve Afghan Elections
  Scott Worden. United States Institute of Peace
• [29 Jan 10] State Department Press Release: Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls: Keys to a Better Future for Afghanistan
  • Women's Action Plan for Afghanistan
• [25 Jan 10] Afghanistan, NATO and European Security
  Remarks by Bob Ainsworth, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom, at Chatham House
• [Jan 10] Why is it Important to Talk to the Taliban?
  Ali Iqbal. Small Wars Journal
• [28 Jan 10] Remarks at the International Conference on Afghanistan
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [28 Jan 10] Terrorist Financing
  Remarks by David S. Cohen, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing, at the Council on Foreign Relations
• [28 Jan 10] Negotiations and Reconciliation with the Taliban: The Key Policy Issues and Dilemmas
  Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
• [27 Jan 10] Quick Impact, Quick Collapse: The Dangers of Militarized Aid in Afghanistan
  ReliefWeb
• [27 Jan 10] Afghanistan Success Hinges on Karzai Reforms
  Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations

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• [current] U.S. Department of State County Information for Afghanistan
• [current] CIA World Factbook for Afghanistan
• [current] Afghanistan Maps
  From the University of Texas at Austin
• [current] Profile of Afghanistan from the Asia Society
  Features a map and brief statistical information
• [current] BBC News Resources
  • Afghanistan Country Profile
  • Afghanistan Timeline
• [Oct 09] Afghanistan in 2009: A Survey of the Afghan People
  The Asia Foundation
• [Oct 08] Afghanistan in 2008: A Survey of the Afghan People
  The Asia Foundation
• [May 08] Afghanistan Country Overview 2008
  World Bank
• [Sep 07] Afghanistan in 2007: A Survey of the Afghan People
  The Asia Foundation
• [April 07] Afghanistan Data Profile
  World Bank
• [Nov 06] Afghanistan in 2006: A Survey of the Afghan People
  The Asia Foundation
• [Feb 06] Afghanistan Country Analysis Brief
  Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
• [Jan 06] Library of Congress Portals to the World: Afghanistan

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U.S. Policy

White House
• [4 Dec 09] The Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Foreign Press Center briefing by Gen James Jones, National Security Advisor
• [1 Dec 09] Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [1 Dec 09] Fact Sheet: The Way Forward in Afghanistan
• [1 Dec 09] Press Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the President's West Point Speech
• [1 Dec 09] Readout of President Obama's Video Teleconference with President Karzai
• [2 Nov 09] Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Reinfeldt of Sweden after Meeting
• [20 Oct 09] Statement by President Barack Obama on Afghan Elections
• [20 Oct 09] Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Maliki of Iraq after Meeting
  NOTE: First half of the transcript concerns the electoral process in Afghanistan
• [18 Oct 09] State of the Union with John King
  Remarks by Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff, and Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  NOTE: Full-text made available by CNN.  This is not an official U.S. Government transcript.
• [30 Sep 09] Readout from the Press Secretary on the President's National Security Meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [16 Sep 09] Remarks by President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Harper during Joint Press Availability
  NOTE: Contains remarks on Canada's transition to a civilian humanitarian development role in Afghanistan after 2011
• [21 Aug 09] Remarks by the President on the Recent Elections in Afghanistan
• [6 July 09] Joint Statement by President of the United States of America Barack Obama and President of the Russian Federation D. A. Medvedev Concerning Afghanistan
• [16 June 09] Statement by President Barack Obama on the Start of the Afghan Election Campaign
• [6 May 09] Press Briefing by National Security Advisor General James Jones on the President's Meetings with President Karzai of Afghanistan and President Zardari of Pakistan
• [6 May 09] Remarks by the President after the Trilateral Meeting with President Karzai of Afghanistan and President Zardari of Pakistan
• [9 April 09] White House: Fiscal Year 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Request
  • Summary of the Fiscal Year 2009 Supplemental Appropriations Request
• [4 April 09] Background Information: President Obama's Participation in the 60th Anniversary NATO Summit Celebration in Strasbourg-Kehl
• [27 March 09] Remarks by the President on a New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [27 March 09] White Paper of the Interagency Policy Group's Report on U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [27 March 09] Press Briefing by Bruce Riedel, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, and Michelle Flournoy on the New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [27 March 09] President Obama's Afghanistan-Pakistan (AFPAK) Strategy
  Foreign Press Center Briefing by General James Jones, National Security Advisor
• [27 March 09] White House Press Office: What's New in the Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan 
• [10 March 09] Remarks by Vice President Biden at Press Conference with NATO Secretary General
• [10 March 09] Remarks by Vice President Biden and NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in Joint Press Conference
• [10 March 09] Opening Remarks by the Vice President to the North Atlantic Council
• [27 Feb 09] Interview of President Obama by Armed Forces TV
• [17 Feb 09] Statement by the President on Afghanistan
• [18 Dec 08] President and Mrs. Bush Host Reception in Honor of the United States-Afghan Women's Council
• [15 Dec 08] President Bush Participates in Press Availability with Afghanistan President Karzai in Afghanistan
• [15 Dec 08] President Bush Visits with Troops in Afghanistan
• [20 Oct 08] Statement by Press Secretary Dana Perino
  NOTE: Condemnation of an attack by the Taliban in Kandahar province
• [1 Oct 08] President Bush Meets with General David McKiernan, Commander for NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan
• [26 Sep 08] President Bush Participates in Video Teleconference with President Karzai of Afghanistan, United States Provincial Reconstruction Team Leaders, National Guard Agriculture Development Team Representatives, and Afghan Governors
• [26 Sep 08] Fact Sheet: Making Afghanistan More Secure with Economic and Reconstruction Assistance
• [9 Sep 08] President Bush Visits National Defense University's Distinguished Lecture Program, Discusses Global War on Terror
  NOTE: Discussion of Afghanistan begins in the second half of the transcript
• [29 July 08] Interview of the First Lady by Wendell, Goler, Fox News
• [12 June 08] Mrs. Bush's Remarks at International Conference in Support of Afghanistan
• [12 June 08] What I Saw in Afghanistan
  Op-ed by Laura Bush
• [12 June 08] Fact Sheet: The Afghanistan Support Conference: Renewed U.S. and International Commitment
• [11 June 08] Mrs. Bush's Remarks at a Reception with U.S.-Afghan Donors Conference Participants
• [8 June 08] Mrs. Bush's Remarks at the Kabul Presidential Palace
• [8 June 08] Mrs. Bush's Remarks and President Karzai of Afghanistan in Press Availability
• [17 May 08] President Bush Meets with President Karzai of Afghanistan
• [29 April 08] Press Conference by the President
  Note: Discusses the attempted assassination of President Karzai half way through
• [2 April 08] President Bush Visits Bucharest, Romania, Discusses NATO
• [2 April 08] President Bush Meets with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
• [20 March 08] Remarks by Vice President Cheney and President Karzai of Afghanistan in Press Availability
• [13 March 08] President Bush Participates in Video Teleconference with Afghanistan Provincial Reconstruction Team Leaders and Brigade Combat Commanders
• [13 March 08] Fact Sheet: Helping Afghanistan Achieve Sustainable Progress
• [26 Sep 07] President Bush Meets with President Karzai of Afghanistan
• [6 Aug 07] President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with President Karzai of Afghanistan
• [23 July 07] President and Mrs. Bush Saddened by Death of Mohammad Zahir Shah
• [21 May 07] President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with NATO Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer
[27 Feb 07] Interview of a Senior Adminstration Official by the Traveling Press
[15 Feb 07] President Bush Discusses Progress in Afghanistan, Global War on Terror
[15 Feb 07] Fact Sheet: Increasing Support to Help the People of Afghanistan Succeed
[1 Dec 06] Estimated Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan
Office of National Drug Control Policy
[28 Nov 06] President Bush Discusses NATO Alliance During Visit to Latvia
NOTE: Discussion of Afghanistan is in second half of transcript
[29 Sep 06] President Bush Discusses Global War on Terror
[29 Sep 06] Fact Sheet: Afghanistan and Pakistan: Strong Allies in the War on Terror
[27 Sep 06] Statement on the President's Dinner with President Karzai and President Musharraf at the White House
[27 Sep 06] President Bush Hosts Presidents of Pakistan and Afghanistan at the White House
• [26 Sep 06] Remarks by President Bush and President Karzai of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Joint Press Availability
• [18 Sep 06] Presidential Determination on Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2007
• [1 March 06] President Bush Meets with President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan
• [1 March 06] President and Mrs. Bush Dedicate U.S. Embassy Building in Afghanistan
• [1 March 06] President Bush Thanks U.S. and Coalition Troops in Afghanistan   

Department of Defense
• [current] Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan 
• [current] Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [25 Jan 10] Remarks at the House of Commons All-Party Parliamentary Group on Transatlantic Security
  William J. Lynn, III, Deputy Secretary of Defense
• [21 Jan 10] Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates Pak TV Interview
• [15 Jan 10] Afghanistan Energy Supply Has Increased but An Updated Master Plan is Needed and Delays and Sustainability Concerns Remain
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [12 Jan 10] DoD News Briefing with Col. Drinkwine from Afghanistan
• [15 Dec 09] DoD News Briefing with Gen. James T. Conway, Commandant of the Marine Corps, at the Pentagon
• [15 Dec 09] National Defense University Pakistan
  Remarks by ADM Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the National Defense University, Islamabad, Pakistan
• [14 Dec 09] Press Conference with Royal Netherlands Army Maj. Gen. Mart de Kruif, Former Commander of Regional Command South, Afghanistan
• [14 Dec 09] Kabul Press Conference
  ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• [10 Dec 09] Press Conference
  ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• [8 Dec 09] Joint Press Conference with Secretary Robert M. Gates and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai from Kabul, Afghanistan
• [8 Dec 09] Media Availability with Secretary Robert M. Gates en Route to Afghanistan
• [8 Dec 09] U.S. National Security Strategy Update
  Foreign Press Center briefing by ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• [2 Dec 09] ISAF Commander's Statement Regarding U.S. President's Announcement
  GEN Stanley A. McChrystal, Commander, NATO International Security Asssistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan
• [2 Dec 09] Message to the Troops on the Way Ahead
  GEN Stanley A. McChrystal, Commander, NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan
• [2 Dec 09] Charlie Rose Show
  ADM Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• [20 Nov 09] Media Availability with Secretary Gates and Canadian Minister of Defense Peter MacKay
• [4 Nov 09] Government Executives Events Group Discussion: Military Leadership
  Remarks by Adm. Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with Tim Clark, Editor-in-Chief, Government Executive Magazine and James Kitfield, National Security and Foreign Affairs Correspondent, the National Journal, at the National Press Club
• [30 Oct 09] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [28 Oct 09] Barriers to Greater Participation by Women in Afghan Elections
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [23 Oct 09] Press Conference with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates During the NATO Defense Ministers Meeting
• [20 Oct 09] Press Availability with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates En Route from Hawaii to Tokyo
• [30 Sep 09] Documenting Detention Procedures Will Help Ensure Counter-Narcotics Justice Center is Utilized as Intended
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [30 Sep 09] Special Plans and Operations: Report on the Assessment of U.S. and Coalition Plans to Train, Equip, and Field the Afghan National Security Forces
  Inspector General
• [27 Sep 09] Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Interview on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos
• [23 Sep 09] DoD News Briefing with Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell from the DoD Briefing Room, The Pentagon, Arlington Va.
• [22 Sep 09] Strategy and Resources Needed to Sustain Afghan Electoral Capacity
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [15 Sep 09] Senate Armed Services Committee Reconfirmation Hearing
  Testimony by Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Armed Services Committee
• [9 Sep 09] Increased Visibility, Monitoring, and Planning Needed for Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [4 Sep 09] Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Interview with Al Jazeera at the Pentagon
• [3 Sep 09] DoD News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen from the Pentagon
• [31 Aug 09] Media Availability with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates at Lockheed Martin Factory, Fort Worth, Texas
  NOTE: Remarks on the situation in Afghanistan occur in the middle of the transcript
• [27 Aug 09] Actions Needed to Resolve Construction Delays at the Counter-Narcotics Justice Center
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [18 Aug 09] DoD News Briefing with Australian Brig. Gen. Damian Cantwell, Chief, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Election Task Force and ISAF Spokesman Canadian Brig. Gen. Eric Tremblay from Kabul, Afghanistan
• [13 Aug 09] DoD News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine Gen. James E. Cartwright from the Pentagon
• [12 Aug 09] Afghanistan Security Forces Fund Phase III - Accountability for Equipment Purchased for the Afghanistan National Army
  Inspector General
• [12 Aug 09] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Walter Givhan, Commander, Combined Air Power Transition Force-Afghanistan, from Afghanistan
• [5 Aug 09] Remarks on National Public Radio's Morning Edition
  Adm. Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• [4 Aug 09] DoD New Briefing with Dutch Army Brig. Gen. Tom Middendorp, Outgoing Commander, Task Force Uruzgan in Southern Afghanistan, at the Pentagon Briefing Room, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
• [4 Aug 09] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, Commander, Combined Joint Task Force 82, and Commanding General, 82nd Airborne Division U.S. Army, at the Pentagon Briefing Room, via Teleconference from Afghanistan
• [30 July 09] A Better Management Information System is Needed to Promote Information Sharing, Effective Planning, and Coordination of Afghanistan Reconstruction Activities
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [30 July 09] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [20 July 09] DoD News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen, from the Pentagon
• [8 July 09] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, Commander, Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan, from Afghanistan
• [7 July 09] CSIS: Statesmen's Forum: "Security and Stability in the Broader Middle East: A Comprehensive Approach"
  Remarks by Adm. Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
  NOTE: Remarks on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan can be found in the second half of the transcript
• [6 July 09] UN Action Urged to Strengthen Afghanistan Capacity to Support Future Elections
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [6 July 09] Tactical Directive
  Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force, Kabul, Afghanistan
  NOTE: Contains the releasable portions of a Tactical Directive issued by General McChrystal for the guidance of ISAF and U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A)
• [25 June 09] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Mart De Kruif, Commander, NATO-ISAF Regional Command South, Royal Netherlands Army, at the Pentagon Briefing Room via Teleconference from Afghanistan
• [23 June 09] DoD News Briefing with Col. Spiszer, Commander, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, at the Pentagon Briefing Room via Teleconference from Afghanistan
• [18 June 09] USCENTCOM's Unclassified Executive Summary: U.S. Central Command Investigation into Civilian Casualties in Farah Province, Afghanistan on 4 May 2009
  U.S. Central Command
• [18 June 09] Press Conference with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen
  NOTE: Concerns the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and the U.S. partnership with NATO forces in Afghanistan
• [12 June 09] Press Conference with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates following NATO Ministerial Meetings in Brussels, Belgium
• [2 June 09] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser, Commander, Combined Joint Task Force - 101 Afghanistan, from Afghanistan
• [June 09] Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
  Report to Congress
• [19 May 09] Contract Oversight Capabilities of the Defense Department's Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A) Need Strengthening
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [18 May 09] The Future of Global Engagements and Defense Budget Priorities
  Remarks by Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the Brookings Institution
• [11 May 09] Press Conference with Secretary Robert Gates and Adm. Mullen, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Leadership Changes in Afghanistan from the Pentagon
• [7 May 09] Press Conference with Secretary Robert Gates from Kabul, Afghanistan
• [5 May 09] Media Availability with Secretary Robert M. Gates at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• [30 April 09] Quarterly and Semiannual Report to the United States Congress
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [29 April 09] Secretary Robert M. Gates Interview with CNN
• [29 April 09] DoD News Briefing with Gen. James Conway, Commandant of the Marine Corps, at the Pentagon
• [22 April 09] DoD Briefing with Maj. Gen. Michael S. Tucker, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, International Security Assistance Force, and Deputy Commander for Operations, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, from Afghanistan
• [21 April 09] U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Remarks by Michèle Flournoy, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, at Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [7 April 09] Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Interview with Judy Woodruff, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
• [31 March 09] Secretary Robert Gates Interview with Afghan TV
• [31 March 09] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Formica, Commanding General, Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan, from Kabul
• [20 March 09] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Mart de Kruif, Commander, Regional Command South Afghanistan, from Afghanistan
• [20 March 09] DoD News Briefing with Col. Thomas O'Donovan, Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan Engineer District, at the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington Va.
• [11 March 09] Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Interview with Tavis Smiley
• [10 March 09] Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Interview on All Things Considered NPR
• [6 March 09] DoD News Briefing with Colonel John P. Johnson, Commander, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, U.S. Army, at the Pentagon Briefing Room via Teleconference from Afghanistan
• [5 March 09] Media Stakeout with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Candadian Minister of Defense Peter Mackay outside the Pentagon, Arlington, Va.
• [3 March 09] Media Available with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and French Minister of Defense Herve Morin
  NOTE: Discussion of international efforts in Afghanistan occurs in the middle of the transcript
• [18 Feb 09] Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates Enroute to Krakow
• [18 Feb 09] DoD News Briefing with Gen. David McKiernan, Commander, U.S. Forces Afghanistan and NATO's International Security Assistance Force, from the Pentagon
• [17 Feb 09] Press Release: DoD Announces Afghanistan Force Deployment
• [8 Feb 09] The Future of the Alliance and the Mission in Afghanistan
  Remarks by GEN. David H. Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command, at the 45th Munich Security Conference
• [4 Feb 09] DoD News Briefing with Col. Spellmon from Afghanistan
• [30 Jan 09] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [27 Jan 09] Testimony by Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense, to the Senate Armed Services Committee
  • As Delivered
  • Written Statement
• [22 Jan 09] DoD News Briefing with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen
  NOTE: Discussion of need for additional troops in Afghanistan and difference in goals for Afghanistan between the Bush and Obama Administrations begins at the midpoint of the transcript
• [22 Jan 09] DoD News Briefing with Secretary of the Army Pete Geren, Director, Army National Guard, Lt. Gen. Clyde Vaughn, Cdr, Texas Agricultural Team Army Col. Stan Poe, and Sultan Hussein Abasyar, Director of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan
• [Jan 09] Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
• [11 Dec 08] Media Availability with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates from Kandahar, Afghanistan
• [5 Dec 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Tucker, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations for ISAF, Deputy Commander for Operations, U.S. Forces Afghanistan, from Afghanistan at the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington VA
• [25 Nov 08] Foreign Press Center Briefing with Maj. Gen. Robert Cone, Commander, Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A)
• [21 Nov 08] DoD News Briefing with Colonel John P. Johnson, Commander, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, from Afghanistan, at the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington, VA
• [18 Nov 08] DoD News Briefing with Colonel John Spiszer, Commander, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, Via Teleconference from Afghanistan, at the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington, VA
• [12 Nov 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Robert Cone, Commanding General, Combined Security Transition Command, from Afghanistan
• [30 Oct 08] Quarterly Report to the United States Congress
  Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
• [29 Oct 08] DoD News Briefing with Press Secretary Geoff Morrell from the Pentagon
  NOTE: Second half of the transcript concerns the Taliban and the situation in Afghanistan
• [24 Oct 08] Assessment of Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives Control and Accountability; Security Assistance; and Sustainment for the Afghan National Security Forces
  Office of Special Plans and Operations, Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense
• [15 Oct 08] Dean Acheson Lecture - U.S. Institute of Peace
  Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
• [1 Oct 08] DoD News Briefing with Gen. McKiernan from the Pentagon
• [26 Sep 08] DoD Briefing with Lt Col Allison from the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington, VA and Mr. Shawn Waddoups, Via Teleconference from Afghanistan
• [23 Sep 08] Update on the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
  Statement by Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense, before the Senate Armed Services Committee
• [18 Sep 08] Roundtable with Defense Secretary Gates from London, United Kingdom
• [17 Sep 08] Press Availability with Afghan Press
  Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
• [15 Sep 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Lindell from Afghanistan
• [5 Sep 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Schloesser from Afghanistan
• [27 Aug 08] DoD News Briefing with Gen. Conway from the Pentagon
• [18 July 08] Challenges Impacting Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom Reported by Major Oversight Organizations Beginning FY 2003 through FY 2007
  Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense
• [24 June 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Schloesser from Afghanistan
• [17 June 08] DoD News Briefing with Geoff Morrell from the Pentagon, Arlington, Va.
• [13 June 08] DoD News Briefing with Gen. McNeill from the Pentagon
• [13 June 08] Press Conference with Defense Secretary Gates at NATO Headquarters, Brussels
• [June 08] Report on Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan
  Report to Congress
• [June 08] United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces
  Report to Congress
• [29 April 08] Media Availability with Secretary Gates in Mexico City, Mexico
• [18 April 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Cone
• [7 April 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Rodriguez from Afghanistan
• [1 April 08] Media Availability with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Danish Minister of Defense Soren Gade
• [28 March 08] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Livingston
• [26 March 08] DoD News Briefing with Col. Schweitzer and Sgt. Maj. Flowers
• [27 Feb 08] DoD News Briefing with Col. Stevens from Aghanistan
• [26 Feb 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Rodriguez from Aghanistan
• [19 Feb 08] DoD News Briefing with Col. Johnson
• [10 Feb 08] Munich Conference on Security Policy
  Remarks as Delivered by Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
• [8 Feb 08] DoD News Briefing with Col. Klingaman from Kabul, Afghanistan
• [6 Feb 08] DoD News Briefing with Gen. McNeill
• [5 Feb 08] DoD Support to NATO International Security Assistance Force
  Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense
• [24 Jan 08] DoD Press Briefing with Brig. Gen. Lindell
• [23 Jan 08] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Rodriguez
• [17 Jan 08] Media Roundtable with Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James E. Cartwright
• [15 Jan 08] DoD News Briefing with Press Secretary Geoff Morrell
• [8 Jan 08] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Votel
• [2 Jan 08] DoD News Briefing with Col. Schweitzer
• [11 Dec 07] House Armed Services Committee on Afghanistan
  Testimony by Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
• [30 Nov 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Daly and Maj. Gen. Ali from Afghanistan
• [9 Nov 07] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Livingston from Afghanistan
• [31 Oct 07] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Anderson
• [24 Oct 07] Media Roundtable with Secretary Gates from Noordwijk, Netherlands
• [18 Oct 07] DoD Press Briefing with Maj. Gen. Cone and Gen. Wardak
• [17 Oct 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Chip Preysler from Afghanistan
• [10 Oct 07] DoD News Briefing with Gen. Bantz Craddock, Commander, European Command
• [2 Oct 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Ives, Commander, Task Force Cincinnatus, Combined Joint Task Force 82
• [5 Sep 07] DoD News Briefing with Cdr. Adams, Commander Khowst Provinical Reconstruction Team and Governor Jamal, Governor, Khowst Province, Afghanistan Arsala Jamal
• [22 Aug 07] DoD News Briefing with Lt. Col. Phillips from Afghanistan
• [25 July 07] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Rodriguez from Afghanistan
• [July 07] Interagency Assessment of the Counternarcotics Program in Afghanistan
  Inspectors General, U.S. Department of State and U.S. Department of Defense
• [29 June 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Bulen at the Pentagon
• [28 June 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Ives and Lt. Col. Kim
• [20 June 07] DoD Briefing with Col. Schweitzer and Maj. Gen. Khaliq from Afghanistan
• [5 June 07] DoD News Briefing with Gen. Dan McNeill via Videoconference from Afghanistan
  Commanding General, NATO's International Security Assistance Force
• [5 June 07] DoD Press Briefing with Secretary Gates and President Hamid Karzai from Kabul, Afghanistan
• [8 May 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Nicholson from Afghanistan
• [30 April 07] DoD News Briefing with Royal Netherlands Army Maj. Gen. Van Loon from the Pentagon
• [24 April 07] DoD News Briefing with Col. Schweitzer from Afghanistan
• [18 April 07] DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel from Afghanistan
• [27 March 07] A Comprehensive Approach to Modern Insurgency: Afghanistan and Beyond
  Remarks by Eric Edelman, Under Secretary for Policy, to the NATO Conference on a Comprehensive Approach to Afghanistan
  NOTE: This document opens in Microsoft Word 
• [26 Jan 07] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Freakley from Afghanistan
• [17 Jan 07] Press Availability with Secretary Gates, General Pace, and General Eikenberry
• [16 Jan 07] Press Conference with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Following Meeting with President Karzai
• [9 Jan 07] DoD News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Robert Durbin and Minister Abdul Hadir Khalid from the Pentagon

Department of State
• [current] U.S. Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan  
• [current] Afghanistan Country Page
• [3 Feb 10] Briefing on Recent Trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Tom Vilsack, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
• [29 Jan 10] Press Release: Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls: Keys to a Better Future for Afghanistan
  • Women's Action Plan for Afghanistan
• [28 Jan 10] Remarks at the International Conference on Afghanistan
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [7 Jan 10] U.S. Government Agriculture Sector Programs in Afghanistan and Upcoming Travel to the Region
  Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, Rajiv Shah, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, and Richard C. Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [7 Jan 10] Role of the International Network of SRAPs
  Foreign Press Center briefing by Daniel Feldman, Deputy to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP)
• [6 Jan 10] Remarks on the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
  Rosemary A. DiCarlo, U.S. Alternate Representative to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs
• [Jan 10] Afghanistan and Pakistan Regional Stabilization Strategy
  Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [18 Dec 09] Use of Contractors to Train Afghan National Police
  Statement by David T. Johnson, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
• [17 Dec 09] Afghanistan and the United States: A Long-Term Partnership
  Remarks by Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• [17 Dec 09] In the Waves of Liberty
  Remarks by Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, with Radio Azadi
• [10 Dec 09] Response to ODIHR Final Report on Elections in Afghanistan
  Carol Fuller, Chargé d'Affaires of the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
• [9 Dec 09] The New Afghanistan Strategy: The View from the Ground
  Statement by Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• [9 Dec 09] The U.S.-Europe Partnership Under the Obama Administration
  Remarks by Philip H. Gordon, Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, at the Council on Foreign Relations
  NOTE: First half of the transcript concerns U.S.-European cooperation in Afghanistan
• [7 Dec 09] Remarks at the American Enterprise Institute
  Paul Jones, Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [4 Dec 09] Remarks at Press Conference at NATO Headquarters
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [3 Dec 09] Afghanistan: Assessing the Road Ahead
  Opening Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• [3 Dec 09] Briefing En Route Brussels, Belgium
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [2 Dec 09] U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
  Opening Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee
• [2 Dec 09] Administration's Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Opening Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, before the Senate Armed Services Committee
• [1 Dec 09] Message to the People of Afghanistan
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [Dec 09] Status of the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Counternarcotics Programs in Afghanistan - Performance Audit
  Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors
• [23 Nov 09] Special Briefing on Secretary Clinton's Recent Trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Richard Holbrooke, Sepcial Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [19 Nov 09] Press Roundtable at Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck Center for Complex Operations
  Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
• [19 Nov 09] Town Hall with Students Staff and Trainers at Camp Atterbury-Muscatatuck Center for Complex Operations
  Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
• [19 Nov 09] Press Conference at U.S. Embassy Kabul
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [19 Nov 09] Address to U.S. and International Troops in Afghanistan
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [5 Nov 09] Remarks with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle after their Meeting
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [3 Nov 09] Press Roundtable
  Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
• [1 Nov 09] Afghanistan Election
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [28 Oct 09] Attack on a Guest House in Kabul
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [28 Oct 09] Statement on the Attack in Kabul
  Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• [26 Oct 09] Briefing on Progress Made in Civilian Hiring in Afghanistan
  Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
• [23 Oct 09] On-the-Record Briefing
  Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [20 Oct 09] Afghan Elections
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [16 Oct 09] Secretary Clinton's Interview with Jill Dougherty of CNN
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [14 Oct 09] Statement in Response to LTG James Duttan, Deputy ISAF Commander
  Carol Fuller, Chargé d'Affaires of the U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
• [6 Oct 09] Interview with Katie Couric of CBS Evening News
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [21 Sep 09] Interview with Margaret Warner of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [14 Sep 09] NATO in a New Era of Engagement
  Remarks by Ivo H. Daalder, U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), at Chatham House
• [11 Sep 09] September 11 Commemoration Ceremony at U.S. Embassy Kabul, Afghanistan
  Remarks by Karl W. Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, and Rangin Spanta, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
• [11 Sep 09] Briefing on Recent Trip to South Asia
  Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary for Management and Resources
• [9 Sep 09] The Obama Administration's Policy on South Asia
  Remarks by Robert O. Blake, Jr., Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
• [3 Sep 09] NATO in Afghanistan: A New Approach to Operations
  Remarks by Ivo H. Daalder, U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), to the Netherlands Atlantic Commission at the Hague
• [17 Aug 09] Afghanistan Elections
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [1 July 09] Remarks at the Transatlantic Forum
  Ivo H. Daalder, U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  NOTE: Second half of the transcript concerns NATO's role in Afghanistan
• [30 June 09] Remarks During a Security Council Debate on the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
  Susan E. Rice, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• [30 June 09] Remarks on Recent Visit to Afghanistan and the U.S. Commitment to Afghan Women
  Melanne Verveer, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues
• [10 June 09] Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard C. Holbrooke on His Recent Travels to the Region
• [8 June 09] A Full and Urgent Agenda for NATO in the 21st Century
  Ivo H. Daalder, U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  NOTE: Third section of the speech concerns NATO's role in Afghanistan
  • Question and Answer Session
• [29 May 09] Press Release: Memorandum of Agreement Signed with Afghanistan
• [8 May 09] Press Release: U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Consultations
• [6 May 09] Remarks on Trilateral Consultaitons with Afghanistan and Pakistan
  White House Briefing by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [6 May 09] U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Consultations II
  Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari
• [5 May 09] Press Statement: Joint Investigation into Reported Civilian Casualties
• [30 April 09] Press Release: U.S. Department of State Delivers $5 Million in New Mine Action Aid for Afghanistan
• [31 March 09] Remarks at the International Conference on Afghanistan
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [31 March 09] Press Availability Following International Conference on Afghanistan
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [31 March 09] Remarks with Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [30 March 09] Press Statement: Afghanistan Supreme Court Ruling
• [27 March 09] Interview with BBC Regarding Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs
• [20 March 09] The Hague Conference on Afghanistan
  Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [19 March 09] Statement on the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
  Rosemary DiCarlo, U.S. Alternate Representative to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs
• [18 March 09] Remarks with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Miliband
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [4 March 09] Press Statement: Decision by Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan
• [28 Feb 09] Press Statement on President Karzai's Decree
• [26 Feb 09] Strategic Partnership with Afghanistan
  Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, with Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta
• [26 Feb 09] U.S.-Pakistan-Afghanistan Trilateral Meetings To Be Held on a Regular Basis
  Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, at the Trilateral Meeting with Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta and Pakistan Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi
• [18 Feb 09] Special Envoy Holbrooke's Interview by Judy Woodruff of NewsHour
• [6 Feb 09] Special Representative Holbrooke's Role in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• [23 Jan 09] Fact Sheet: U.S. Conventional Weapons Destruction Program in Afghanistan
• [22 Jan 09] Announcement of Appointment of Special Envoy for Middle East Peace George Mitchell and Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke
  Remarks by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, Joe Biden, Vice President, George Mitchell, Special Envoy for Middle East Peace, and Richard Holbrooke, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [7 Jan 09] U.S.-Afghanistan Relations
  Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [19 Nov 08] Media Note: U.S. Support to Afghan Refugees and Returnees
• [8 Nov 08] U.S. Committed to Afghanistan
  Remarks by Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [30 Oct 08] Remarks with BBC World Service on Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [27 Oct 08] Progress in Afghanistan: U.S. Releases New Poppy Cultivation Data
  Foreign Press Center briefing by John Walters, Director, White House Office of Drug Control Policy, Ashraf Haidari, Political Counselor for the Embassy of Afghanistan, Michele Leonhart, Acting DEA Administrator, Bill McGlynn, State Department International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Bureau, and Brigadier General Joseph Callahan, Joint Staff
• [14 Oct 08] Statement by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Permanent Representative, on UNAMA (United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan), in the Security Council
• [9 Oct 08] Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations with the U.S.
  Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [25 Sep 08] Remarks with Afghanistan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta after their Meeting
  John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State
• [25 Sep 08] Media Note: United States-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Joint Statement
• [25 Sep 08] Fact Sheet: United States-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership
• [10 Sep 08]Press Statement: Afghanistan National Army Expansion
• [8 Sep 08] Afghanistan's Communications Revolution
  Op-Ed by David A. Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, and Amir Zai Sangin, Afghanistan's Minister of Communications and Information Technology
• [27 Aug 08] Fact Sheet: Update on Counternarcotics in Afghanistan - August 2008 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Poppy Cultivation Survey
• [18 June 08] Special Briefing on the International Conference in Support of Afghanistan
  Remarks by USAID Administrator and Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood
• [13 June 08] Pakistan/Afghanistan - U.S. Relations
  Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [12 June 08] Remarks at Afghanistan Donors' Conference
  Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
• [12 June 08] Special Briefing by USAID Administrator Henrietta Ford and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan William Wood
• [12 June 08] Media Note: Summary of U.S. Assistance: International Conference in Support of Afghanistan
• [10 June 08] Fact Sheet: Total U.S. Security and Reconstruction Assistance to Afghanistan
• [10 June 08] Briefing on the International Conference in Support of Afghanistan
  Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [4 June 08] Fact Sheet: U.S. Commitment to Afghan Women: The U.S.-Afghan Women's Council
• [13 May 08] Remarks with Afghanistan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta at the Signing Ceremony after their Meeting
  Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
• [28 April 08] Remarks with the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Afghanistan Kai Eide after Their Meeting
  Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
• [14 April 08] Supporting Afghanistan
  Remarks by Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [20 March 08] Afghanistan's New Deal
  Op-Ed by Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• [20 March 08] Remarks on the Renewal of the Mandate for UNAMA and the Situation in Somalia
  Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• [12 March 08] Remarks by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Permanent Representative, on the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, to the Security Council
• [11 March 08] Fact Sheet: Fighting the Opium Trade in Afghanistan: Myths, Facts, and Sound Policy
  Joint Statement by the United States and the United Kingdom
• [7 Feb 08] Remarks with UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai
  Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
• [7 Feb 08] Remarks with UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband at Kandahar Air Base
  Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
• [7 Feb 08] Briefing with UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband enroute Afghanistan
  Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
• [6 Feb 08] Remarks with UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband
  Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
• [4 Feb 08] Afghanistan and NATO: Why They Both Matter
  Remarks by Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, to the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
• [1 Feb 08] The NATO Emerging in Afghanistan
  Op-Ed by Victoria Nuland, U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• [2 Jan 08] Fact Sheet: Civilian Police and Rule of Law Programs
• [13 Dec 07] Remarks on Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan
  Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
• [16 Nov 07] Media Note: Public-Private Partnership for Justice Reform in Afghanistan
• [4 Oct 07] Counternarcotics Strategy and Police Training in Afghanistan
  Thomas A. Schweich, Acting Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
• [14 Sep 07] Why Helping Afghanistan Matters
  Speech by Kurt Volker, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, to the Atlantic Council of Finland
• [11 Sep 07] Press Roundtable in Afghanistan
  John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary
• [6 Sep 07] Remarks to the Press: Discussing Afghanistan
  Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [29 Aug 07] The Counternarcotics Situation in Afghanistan
  Thomas A. Schweich, Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
• [9 Aug 07] On-the-Record Briefing on the Release of a Comprehensive New U.S. Government Implementation Plan to Control Narcotics in Afghanistan
  John P. Walters, Director of National Drug Control Policy, and Thomas Schweich, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement
• [August 07] U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy for Afghanistan
• [2 Aug 07] On-the-Record Briefing on Afghanistan
  Richard Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [23 July 07] The Passing of Muhammad Zahir Shah, Former King of Afghanistan
  Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
• [25 June 07] A Comprehensive Approach to Counternarcotics in Afghanistan
  Foreign Press Center briefing by John P. Walters, Director of the White House Office of Drug Control Policy, and Kim Howell, Minister of State, Foreign Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom
• [14 May 07] Roundtable with East-West Center Journalists Tour
  Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [22 March 07] South and Central Asia Regional Update
  Foreign Press Center briefing by a Senior State Department Official
• [20 March 07] Statement by Ambassador Jackie Sanders, U.S. Alternative Representative to the UN for Special Political Affairs, at the Security Council Open Meeting on the Situation in Afghanistan
• [8 March 07] Moving Forward in Afghanistan
  Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs
• [30 Jan 07] Overall U.S. Effort in Afghanistan
  Richard A. Boucher, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, Ronald E. Neumann, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, and Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, Commanding General of the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan
• [26 Jan 07] Fulfilling the Commitment to Success in Afghanistan
  Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State
• [26 Jan 07] On-the-Record Briefing on Afghanistan
  R. Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State, and John Fox, Director of the Office of Afghanistan Affairs

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Other Policy Sources
• [current] USAID in Afghanistan
• [current] Export.Gov/Afghanistan
  Afghanistan Investment and Reconstruction Task Force, U.S. Department of Commerce
• [28 Jan 10] Terrorist Financing
  Remarks by David S. Cohen, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing, at the Council on Foreign Relations
• [11 Jan 10] Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Discusses Afghanistan Trip
• [18 Dec 09] Afghan National Security Forces Contract Training
  Hearing before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
• [Aug 09] Comprehensive Oversight Plan: Afghanistan-Pakistan - Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2009 Through Fiscal Year 2010
  Southwest Asia Joint Planning Group
• [June 09] At What Cost? Contingency Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan: Interim Report
  Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
• [April 09] Comprehensive Oversight Plan for Southwest Asia: FY 2009 Update
  Southwest Asia Joint Planning Group
• [26 March 09] Human Rights in Afghanistan
  Briefing before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
• [Nov 08] Comprehensive Audit Plan for Southwest Asia: FY 2009 Update
  Southwest Asia Joint Planning Group
• [June 08] Comprehensive Audit Plan for Southwest Asia
  Southwest Asia Joint Planning Group
• [May 08] A Review of the FBI's Involvement in and Observations of Detainee Interrogations in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq
  Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice
• [27 March 08] Fact Sheet: USAID Assistance to Afghanistan in 2002-2008
  United States Agency for International Development
• [13 Nov 07] Remarks by Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez at the Afghan-American Chamber of Commerce, U.S.-Afghan Business Matchmaking Conference
• [18 July 07] United States and Other Paris Club Creditors Provide Further Debt Relief to Afghanistan
  Department of the Treasury Press Release
• [10 April 07] Business Opportunities in Afghanistan and Central Asia
  Remarks by Franklin L. Lavin, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
• [31 Oct 06] Remarks to the Afghan American Chamber of Commerce Business Matchmaking Conference
  Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce
• [4 Oct 06] Interview of John D. Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, with Gary Thomas, Voice of America
• [21 Aug 06] Afghanistan: Opportunities in the Telecommunications Sector
  Remarks by Franklin L. Lavin, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade
• [June 06] Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan: An Interagency Assessment
  U.S. Agency for International Development
• [9 March 06] USAID Assistance to Afghanistan
  James Kunder, USAID Assistant Administrator

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U.S. Congress
• [21 Jan 10] CBO's Analysis of Scenarios for Funding the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
  Letter to the Honorable John M. Spratt Jr., Chariman of the House Committee on the Budget. Congressional Budget Office
• [17 Dec 09] Afghanistan Contracts: An Overview
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight
• [15 Dec 09] Winning the War in Afghanistan
  Address by Senator John McCain at the Heritage Foundation
• [10 Dec 09] U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan - Part II
  • Howard L. Berman, Chairman
  • Karl W. Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
  • GEN Stanley A. McChrystal, USA, Commander, NATO International Security Assistance Force
• [9 Dec 09] The New Afghanistan Strategy: The View from the Ground
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
• [8 Dec 09] Afghanistan: The Results of the Strategic Review, Part II
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
• Ike Skelton, Chairman
• GEN Stanley A. McChrystal, USA, Commander, NATO International Security Assistance Force
• Karl W. Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
• [8 Dec 09] Afghanistan
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
• [3 Dec 09] Afghanistan: The Results of the Strategic Review, Part I
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
• Ike Skelton, Chairman
• Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense
• ADM Michael G. Mullen, USN, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Jacob J. Lew, Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources
• [3 Dec 09] Afghanistan: Assessing the Road Ahead
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
• [2 Dec 09] U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan
  Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Howard L. Berman, Chairman
• Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State
• Robert M. Gates, Secretary of Defense
• ADM Michael G. Mullen, USN, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• [2 Dec 09] Afghanistan
  Hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee
• [19 Nov 09] Afghan Elections: What Happened and Where Do We Go From Here?
  Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
• [17 Nov 09] Iraq and Afghanistan: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy, Part III
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
  • GEN Wesley K. Clark, USA (ret.)
  • Kimberly Kagan
  • Gilles Dorronsoro
  • Andrew F. Krepinevich
• [5 Nov 09] Iraq and Afghanistan: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy, Part II
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
  • MG Paul Eaton, USA (ret.)
  • C. Christine Fair
  • M. A. Muqtedar Khan
  • Marin Strmecki
• [22 Oct 09] Afghanistan and Iraq: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee
  • GEN Barry R. McCaffrey, USA (ret.)
  • LTG David W. Barno, Director, Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies
  • Beth Ellen Cole
  • Matthew Waldman
• [22 Oct 09] Counterterrorism Within the Afghanistan Counterinsurgency
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee, Terrorism Unconventional Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee
  • Adam Smith, Subcommittee Chairman
  • Frederick W. Kagan
  • Robert A. Pape
  • Rick "Ozzie" Nelson
• [21 Oct 09] U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy in Afghanistan
  Hearing before the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control
  • Dianne Feinstein, Co-Chair
  • Michael A. Braun
  • Vanda Felbab-Brown
  • Norine MacDonald
• [20 Oct 09] Chairman Kerry Welcomes President Karzai's Decision to Conduct a Runoff Election
  Statement by Senator John Kerry, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman
• [15 Oct 09] Afghanistan Policy at the Crossroads
  Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
  • Howard L. Berman, Chairman
  • Steve Coll
  • J. Alexander Thier
  • Frederick W. Kagan
• [15 Oct 09] U.S. International Broadcasting into the War Zones: Iraq and Afghanistan
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on International Operations and Organizations, Human Rights, Democracy, and Global Women's Issues
• [14 Oct 09] Afghanistan: Getting the Strategy Right
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
  • Ike Skelton, Chairman
  • GEN John M. Keane, USA (ret.)
  • Stephen Biddle
  • Paul R. Pillar
• [7 Oct 09] Confronting Al-Qaeda: Understanding the Threat in Afghanistan and Beyond
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
• [1 Oct 09] The Afghan Elections: Who Lost What?
  Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
  • Gary L. Ackerman, Subcommittee Chairman
  • Glenn Cowan
  • J. Alexander Thier
  • Peter M. Manikas
  • C. Christine Fair
  • Lorne Craner
• [1 Oct 09] Afghanistan's Impact on Pakistan
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
• [22 Sep 09] Letter to the President: Best Approach in Afghanistan is a Properly Resourced Counter-Insurgency Strategy
  Ike Skelton, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee
• [17 Sep 09] Countering the Threat of Failure in Afghanistan
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
• [16 Sep 09] Exploring Three Strategies for Afghanistan
  Hearing before the Senate Commitee on Foreign Relations
• [9 Sep 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan: Accountability Community Oversight of a New Interagency Strategy
  Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
• [10 Aug 09] Afghanistan's Narco War: Breaking the Link Between Drug Traffickers and Insurgents
  Report to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
• [14 July 09] U.S. Promotion of the Afghan Economy: Impediments and Opportunities
  Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
• [24 June 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan: Oversight of a New Interagency Strategy
  Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
• [9 June 09] Commission on Wartime Contracting: Interim Findings and Path Forward
  Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
• [21 May 09] A New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• [19 May 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan: Resourcing the Civilian 'Surge'
  Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security
• [2 April 09] New Strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan and Developments in U.S. Central Command and Special Operations Command
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
  • Ike Skelton, Chairman
  • Michèle Flournoy
  • GEN David H. Petraeus, USA
  • ADM Eric T. Olson
• [2 April 09] U.S. Strategy for Afghanistan: Achieving Peace and Stability in the Graveyard of Empires
  Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia
  • Gary L. Ackerman, Chairman
  • Karin von Hippel
  • Seth G. Jones
  • Anthony H. Cordesman
• [1 April 09] United States Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
• [25 March 09] Effective Counterinsurgency: How the Use and Misuse of Reconstruction Funding Affects the War Effort in Iraq and Afghanistan
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
  • Ike Skelton, Chairman
  • Stuart W. Bowen, Jr.
  • Arnold Fields
  • Jacquelyn Williams-Bridgers
• [4 March 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan: Understanding a Complex Threat Environment
  Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
• [26 Feb 09] Strategic Options for the Way Ahead in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services
• [25 Feb 09] Winning the War in Afghanistan
  Remarks by Senator John McCain at the American Enterprise Institute
• [12 Feb 09] Training and Equipping Afghan Security Forces: Unaccounted Weapons and Strategic Challenges
  Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
• [12 Feb 09] Addressing U.S. Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan: Balancing Interests and Resources
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
  • Ike Skelton, Chairman
  • Anthony Cordesman
  • Stephen Biddle
  • Janet St. Laurent
• [29 Jan 09] Turning the Tide in Afghanistan
  Remarks by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman at the Brookings Institution
• [23 Sep 08] The Situation in Iraq and Afghanistan
  Hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee
• [10 Sep 08] Security and Stability in Afghanistan and Iraq: Developments in U.S. Strategy and Operations and the Way Ahead
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
  • Robert M. Gates
  • Admiral Michael G. Mullen, USN
• [24 June 08] Examination of AEY Contracts with the U.S. Government
  Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
  NOTE: Concerns a $300 million contract to supply ammunition to the Afghan security forces
• [18 June 08] Oversight of U.S. Efforts to Train and Equip Police and Enhance the Justice Sector in Afghanistan
  Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
• [3 June 08] Report of Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and Senator Bob Casey (D-PA): Travel to Pakistan and Afghanistan
• [1 May 08] Hanging by a Thread: The State of U.S. Military Readiness and the Prospects for Success in Afghanistan
  Statement by Ike Skelton, House Armed Services Committee Chairman, before the U.S. House of Representatives
• [2 April 08] Strategic Chaos and Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan
  Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• [April 08] Agency Stovepipes vs Strategic Agility: Lessons We Need to Learn from Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Iraq and Afghanistan
  Subcommittee on Oversight and Intestigations, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. House of Representatives
• [14 Feb 08] The Strategy in Afghanistan and Recent Reports by the Afghanistan Study Group and the Atlantic Council of the United States
  Hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee
• [31 Jan 08] Afghanistan: A Plan to Turn the Tide?
  Hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Statement by Senator Richard Lugar, Ranking Republican on the Committee
• [23 Jan 08] Assessment of U.S. Strategy and Operations in Afghanistan and the Way Ahead
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
• [11 Dec 07] Security and Stability in Afghanistan: Status of U.S. Strategy and Operations and the Way Ahead
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
• [25 Oct 07] Estimated Costs of U.S. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Other Activities Related to the War on Terrorism
  Congressional Budget Office
• [4 Oct 07] The Role of the Department of Defense in Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan and Iraq
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Commitee, Oversight and Investigations Subcomittee
  • Vic Snyder, chair
  • Mitchell Shivers, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Central Asia Affairs
  • Maj. Gen. Bobby J. Wilkes, USAF - Deputy Director for Politico-Military Affairs (Asia), Strategic Plans and Policy, the Joint Staff
  • Mark Kimmitt, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs
  • Col. Ralph O. Baker, USA, Deputy Director for Politico-Military Affairs (Middle East), Strategic Plans and Policy, The Joint Staff
• [2 Oct 07] Private Security Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
  Hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform
• The Crash of Blackwater Flight 61
• [Sep 07] Replacing and Repairing Equipment Used in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Army's Reset Program
  Congressional Budget Office
• [30 March 07] H.R. 2446 Afghanistan Freedom Security Support Act of 2007
  Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate
• [22 March 07] Deconstructing Reconstruction: Problems, Challenges, and the Way Forward in Iraq and Afghanistan
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
• [1 March 07] Afghanistan
  Hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee
• [15 Feb 07] Afghanistan on the Brink: Where Do We Go from Here?
  Hearing before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
• [13 Feb 07] Assessment of Security and Stability in Afghanistan and Developments in U.S. Strategy and Operations
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
  • Ike Skelton, Chair
  • Mary Beth Long
  • Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry
  • John Anthony Gastright, Jr.
• [15 Nov 06] The Current Situation and U.S. Military Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
  Hearing before the Senate Armed Forces Committee
• Gen. John P. Abizaid, USA, Commander, United States Central Command
• David M. Satterfield, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq
• Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, USA, Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
• Gen. Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Director, Central Intelligence Agency
• [12 Oct 06] Hyde/Kirk Letter to Secretary Rumsfeld Regarding the Opium Crisis in Afghanistan
• [21 Sep 06] From Coalition to ISAF Command in Afghanistan: The Purpose and Impact of the Transition
  Hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
• [20 Sep 06] Afghanistan: Five Years After 9/11
  Hearing before the House International Relations Committee
• [28 June 06] Status of Security and Stability in Afghanistan
  Hearing before the House Armed Services Committee
• [22 Sep 05] United States Policy in Afghanistan: Establishing Democratic Governance and Security in the Wake of Parliamentary Elections
  Hearing before the House International Relations Committe
• [17 March 05] U.S. Counternarcotics Policy in Afghanistan: Time for Leadership
  Hearing before the House International Relations Committee
• [23 Sep 04] United States Security Policy in Afghanistan on the Eve of National Elections
  Hearing before the House International Relations Committee

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Drug Trade

• [Dec 09] Narco-Jihad: Drug Trafficking and Security in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Ehsan Ahrari, et al. National Bureau of Asian Research
• [Dec 09] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2009
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [Dec 09] Why Buy Something We Hate? Subsidize Other Crops, Not Poppy
  Allison Brown. Small Wars Journal
• [12 Nov 09] The Afghan Narcotics Industry: Extended Summary
  Anthony H. Cordesman and Nicholas B. Greenough. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [28 Oct 09] Narco-Belligerents Across the Globe: Lessons from Colombia for Afghanistan?
  Vanda Felbab-Brown. Real Instituto Elcano
• [Oct 09] Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [Sep 09] The Obama Administration's New Counternarcotics Strategy in Afghanistan: Its Promises and Potential Pitfalls
  Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
• [Sep 09] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2009: Summary Findings
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [12 Aug 09] Afghanistan: Narcotics and U.S. Policy
  Christopher M. Blanchard. Congressional Research Service
• [Aug 09] How Opium Profits the Taliban
  Gretchen Peters. United States Institute of Peace
• [15 July 09] Target the Drug Lords in Afghanistan, Not the Farmers
  Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
• [May 09] "Poppy Free" Provinces: A Measure or a Target?
  David Mansfield. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [April 09] Challenges and Opportunities for Strengthening Licit Agricultural Livelihoods
  Alan Roe. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [25 March 09] Reframing Counter-narcotics Policy in Afghanistan
  Testimony by Fabrice Pothier, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, before the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee
• [19 Feb 09] Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2008
  NOTE: Information on drug control efforts in Afghanistan begins on page 37
• [23 Jan 09] Upcoming Changes to the Drug-Insurgency Nexus in Afghanistan
  Jacob Townsend. Jamestown Foundation
• [Jan 09] Afghanistan: Opium Winter Assessment
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [Dec 08] "Let Them Eat Promises": Closing the Opium Poppy Fields in Balkh and its Consequences
  Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Dec 08] Counter-Narcotics in Afghanistan: The Failure of Success?
  David Mansfield and Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Nov 08] Water Management, Livestock and the Opium Economy: Natural Resources Management, Farming Systems and Rural Livelihoods
  Alan Roe. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Oct 08] Afghanistan's Hidden Drug Problem: The Misuse of Psychotropics
  David Macdonald. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Oct 08] Opium Poppy and Informal Credit
  Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Aug 08] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008: Executive Summary
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [May 08] Resurgence and Reductions: Explanations for Changing Levels of Opium Poppy Cultivation in Nangarhar and Ghor in 2006-07
  David Mansfield. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [April 08] Illicit Drug Trends in Afghanistan
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [March 08] Responding to Afghanistan's Opium Economy Challenge: Lessons and Policy Implications from a Development Perspective
  William A. Byrd. The World Bank
• [Feb 08] Anatomy of a Fallacy: The Senlis Council and Narcotics in Afghanistan
  Frédéric Grare. Centre for International Governance Innovation
• [Feb 08] Afghanistan: Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [Feb 08] Afghanistan Economic Incentives and Development Initiatives to Reduce Opium Production
  Christopher Ward, David Mansfield, Peter Oldham and William Byrd. The World Bank
• [20 Dec 07] Tackling Afghanistan's Opium Trade with Legalization
  Romesh Bhattacharji.  Council on Foreign Relations
• [Nov 07] Afghan Poppy for Medicine Projects: An Economic Case Study
  Senlis Council
• [Oct 07] Opium and Afghanistan: Reassessing U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy
  John A. Glaze.  Strategic Studies Institute
• [Aug 07] Opium Licensing in Afghanistan: Its Desirability and Feasibility
  Vanda Felbab-Brown.  Brookings Institution
• [Aug 07] Afghanistan Opium Survey Executive Summary
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [June 07] India's Experiences in Licensing Poppy Cultivatoin for the Production of Essential Medicines: Lessons for Afghanistan
  Romesh Bhattacharji.  Senlis Council
• [June 07] Poppy for Medicine: Licensing Poppy for the Production of Essential Medicines: An Integrated Counter-Narcotics, Development, and Counter-Insurgency Model for Afghanistan
  Senlis Council
• [10 May 07] Afghanistan's Drug Trade and How it Funds Taliban Operations
  Hayder Mili and Jacob Townsend. Jamestown Foundation
• [Feb 07] Afghanistan: Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [Winter 06/07] Poppies for Peace: Reforming Afghanistan's Opium Industry
  Peter van Ham and Jorrit Kamminga. Washington Quarterly
• [Dec 06] Water Management, Livestock and the Opium Economy: Opium Poppy Cultivation in Nangarhar and Ghor
  David Mansfield. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Nov 06] Afghanistan's Drug Industry: Structure, Functioning, Dynamics, and Implications for Counter-Narcotics Policy
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and The World Bank
• [15 Nov 06] Afghanistan Drug Control: Despite Improved Efforts, Deteriorating Security Threatens Success of U.S. Goals
  Government Accountability Office
• [Nov 06] Combating Opium in Afghanistan
  Ali A. Jalali, Robert B. Oakley, and Zoe Hunter.  Strategic Forum, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
• [14 Sep 06] Afghanistan's Role in Iran's Drug Problem
  Lionel Beehner.  Council on Foreign Relations
• [Aug 06] Opium Poppy Eradication: How to Raise Risk When There is Nothing to Lose?
  David Mansfield and Adam Pain.  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [June 06] Integrated Social Control in Afghanistan: Implications for the Licensed Cultivation of Poppy for the Production of Medicines
  Ali Wardak. Senlis Council
• [27 Feb 06] The Economic Feasibility of Licensed Opium Production for the Production of Medicines in Afghanistan
  Senlis Council
• [Feb 06] Afghanistan's Opium Production in Perspective
  Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
• [12 Sep 05] Summary Findings of Opium Trends in Afghanistan
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [Fall 05] Afghanistan: When Counternarcotics Undermines Counterterrorism
  Vanda Felbab-Brown. The Washington Quarterly
• [29 Aug 05] The Opium Situation in Afghanistan
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
  • Statistical Annex as of 12 Sep 05
• [July 05] Mapping of Alternative Livelihoods Projects in Afghanistan
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [05] Opium Cultivation
  Afghanistan Watch
• [10 Nov 04] How the Drug War in Afghanistan Undermines America's War on Terror
  Ted Galen Carpenter. Cato Institute
• [Nov 04] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2004
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

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Human Rights & Refugees

• [current] Amnesty International's Online Document Archive - Afghanistan
• [current] Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
• [current] Human Rights Watch - Afghanistan
• [current] Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
• [17 Dec 09] More Effective Protection for Internally Displaced Persons in Southern Afghanistan
  Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
• [Dec 09] "We Have the Promises of the World": Women's Rights in Afghanistan
  Rachel Reid, et al. Human Rights Watch
• [Nov/Dec 09] Report on the Situation of Economic and Social Rights in Afghanistan - IV - Qaws 1388
  Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
• [26 Oct 09] U.S. State Department Report on Religious Freedom in Afghanistan - 2009
• [31 Aug 09] Afghanistan: What Now for Refugees?
  International Crisis Group
• [1 June 09] Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Return of Internally Displaced Persons to Northern Afghanistan
  Alex Mundt, Susanne Schmeidl, and Shafiqullah Ziai. Brookings Institution
• [May 09] State of the World's Human Rights: Afghanistan
  Amnesty International
• [March 09] Afghanistan: Humanitarianism under Threat
  Antonio Donini. Feinstein International Center
• [25 Feb 09] U.S. State Department Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Afghanistan - 2008
• [Dec 08] Economic and Social Rights Report in Afghanistan - III
  Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
• [Nov 08] A Mandate to Mainstream: Promoting Gender Equality in Afghanistan
  Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [23 June 08] Displacement and Security in Afghanistan
  Summary report of a Brookings Institution seminar
• [April 08] Arbitrary Justice: Trials of Guantánamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan
  Sahr MuhammedAlly. Human Rights First
• [11 March 08] U.S. State Department Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Afghanistan - 2007
• [June 07] To Return Or To Remain: The Dilemma of Second-Generation Afghans in Pakistan
  Mamiko Saito and Pamela Hunte. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [6 March 07] U.S. State Department Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Afghanistan - 2006
• [26 Jan 07] Afghan Refugees: Current Status and Future Prospects
  Rhoda Margesson. Congressional Research Service
• [15 Sep 06] U.S. State Department Report on Religious Freedom in Afghanistan - 2006
• [8 March 06] U.S. State Department Country Report for Human Rights Practices in Afghanistan - 2005
• [n.d.] Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan website

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NATO

• [current] International Security Assistance Force
• [current] NATO in Afghanistan
• [Jan 10] NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan: Building a Sustainable, Legitimate, Effective Afghanistan Security Force: A Holistic Perspective
  Cindy Jebb and Richard Lacquement. Small Wars Journal
• [9 Dec 09] Press Briefing by NATO Spokesman James Appathurai and ISAF Spokesman Brigadier General Eric Tremblay
• [9 Dec 09] U.S.-NATO: Looking for Common Ground in Afghanistan
  Robert E. Hunter. Council on Foreign Relations
• [4 Dec 09] NATO Press Release: Statement on Afghanistan
  Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Nations Participating in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF)
• [3 Dec 09] NATO in Afghanistan: A Test of the Transatlantic Alliance
  Vincent Morelli and Paul Belkin. Congressional Research Service
• [3 Dec 09] NATO Allies in Europe Must Do More in Afghanistan
  Sally McNamara. Heritage Foundation
• [2 Dec 09] Statement by the Secretary General on President Obama's Announcement
  Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General
• [23 Oct 09] Press Conference Following the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Defence Ministers Session in Bratislava
  Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General
• [22 Oct 09] Press Briefing at the Beginning of the Informal NATO Defence Ministerial Meeting in Bratislava
  James Appathurai, NATO Spokesman
• [28 Sep 09] Afghanistan and NATO: The Way Forward
  Prepared speech by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, at the Atlantic Council of the United States
  • Full transcript from the Atlantic Council, including question and answer session
• [Sep 09] NATO and the New US "Af-Pak" Strategy
  Christopher M. Schnaubelt. NATO Defense College
• [Sep 09] Arguing Afghanistan: What the Detractors of NATO's Mission Get Wrong
  Patrick Keller. NATO Defense College
• [17 Aug 09] State of Denial? NATO at 60 and the War in Afghanistan
  LTC Rick Olsen (ret.). Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
• [Aug 09] Organizing Counterinsurgency Operations in Afghanistan
  Donald C. Bolduc. Small Wars Journal
• [27 July 09] NATO's Mission in Afghanistan: The Political Strategy
  Remarks by David Miliband, Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, at NATO Headquarters, Brussels
• [6 July 09] Tactical Directive
  Headquarters, International Security Assistance Force, Kabul, Afghanistan
  NOTE: Contains the releasable portions of a Tactical Directive issued by General McChrystal for the guidance of ISAF and U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A)
• [Summer 09] Don't Shoot, We're German! Obstacles to a Debate on the Bundeswehr's International Missions
  Eric Chauvistré. Journal of the German Council on Foreign Relations
• [May 09] Operational Effectiveness and UN Resolution 1325 - Practices and Lessons from Afghanistan
  Louise Olsson and Johan Tejpar, eds. Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), et al.
• [4 April 09] Summit Declaration on Afghanistan - Issued by the Heads of State and Government Participating in the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Strasbourg / Kehl
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• [3 April 09] Nonmilitary Commitments Needed from NATO in Afghanistan
  Adm. Michael G. Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Council on Foreign Relations
• [2 April 09] NATO in Afghanistan: Fault Lines in the Transatlantic Alliance?
  Shanthie Mariet D'Souza. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
• [April 09] CIMIC in the ISAF Mission: Conception, Implementation and Development of Civil-Military Cooperation in the Bundeswehr Abroad
  Michael Paul. German Institute for International and Security Affairs
• [25 March 09] NATO 60th Anniversary Summit: An Agenda for American Leadership
  Sally McNamara. Heritage Foundation
• [Spring 09] Operational Design for ISAF in Afghanistan: A Primer
  Julian D. Alford and Scott A. Cuomo. Joint Force Quarterly
• [11 Feb 09] Karzai and NATO: A Parting of Ways?
  Richard Weitz.  Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
• [09] Afghanistan Report 2009
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• [Oct 08] What NATO Can Learn from "the Surge" in Iraq
  Christopher M. Schnaubelt. NATO Defense College
• [30 July 08] After Action Report - Visit NATO Shape Headquarters and Afghanistan - 21-26 July 2008
  Memorandum by Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, USA (Ret)
• [Summer 08] Swords and Ploughshares: Can NATO Survive Afghanistan?
  Matthew A. Rosenstein, et al. Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• [8 May 08] NATO in Afghanistan: A Special Address by the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
  Remarks by Gen. Bantz John Craddock at the Heritage Foundation
• [17 April 08] Assessing the Overall Security Situation in Afghanistan
  Statement by Nick Grono, Deputy President, International Crisis Group, at a DCAF-NATO Parliamentary Assembly Seminar on Stabilising Afghanistan
• [16 April 08] Post-Bucharest: NATO's Prospects in Afghanistan
  Richard Weitz. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
• [3 April 08] ISAF's Strategic Vision: Declaration by the Heads of State and Government of the Nations Contributing to the UN-mandated NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan
• [2-4 April 08] Progress in Afghanistan: Bucharest Summit 2-4 April 2008
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• [April 08] Helping Secure Afghanistan's Future
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• [25 March 08] NATO and the Afghan Insurgency: Looking Ahead to Bucharest
  Andrew Imbrie.  British American Security Information Council
• [24 March 08] Is NATO Up to the Afghan Challenge? Expectations for the Bucharest Meeting
  Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event
• [29 Feb 08] Afghanistan and NATO: Forging the 21st Century Alliance
  Remarks of Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General, to the Brookings Institution
• [Feb 08] Pashutunistan, NATO and the Global War on Terror: "If You Don't Fight, You Cannot Have Peace in Afghanistan"
  Michael Mihalka. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
• [Feb 08] The German Army and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: The Need for Strategy
  Timo Noetzel and Benjamin Schreer. German Institute for International and Security Affairs
• [Jan 08] Afghanistan: Europe's Forgotten War
  Daniel Korski.  European Council on Foreign Relations
• [13 Nov 07] NATO's Big Mission: The United States, Europe and the Challenge of Afghanistan
  Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
• [March 07] Assessing ISAF: A Baseline Study of NATO's Role in Afghanistan
  Cameron Scott. British American Security Information Council
• [29 Nov 06] Riga Summit Declaration
  Issued by the Heads of State and Government Participating in the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Riga
• [29 Nov 06] Going South? NATO Still Split on Afghanistan
  Thomas Barfield.  The National Interest
• [27 Nov 06] NATO in Afghanistan: A Test Case for Future Missions
  Helle Dale.  Heritage Foundation
• [5 Nov 06] A Duty NATO is Dodging in Afghanistan
  David Bosco.  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [2 Nov 06] NATO Joint Press Statement
• [5 Oct 06] Statement by the Secretary General on Expansion of NATO's Operation in Afghanistan
• [4 Oct 06] NATO's Role in Afghanistan
  Transcript of a speech by James R. Jones, General, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, to the Council on Foreign Relations
• [17 Sep 06] ISAF Concludes Operation Medusa in Southern Afghanistan
  NATO Press Release
• [6 Sep 06] Declaration by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
• [23 Aug 06] NATO Struggles to Maintain Control of Southern Afghanistan
  Waliullah Rahmani. Jamestown Foundation
• [3 Aug 06] NATO and the Afghan-Pakistani Border
  Lionel Beehner. Council on Foreign Relations
• [27 July 06] NATO Takes On Afghan Security
  Esther Pan. Council on Foreign Relations
• [1 June 06] NATO's Afghan Expansion
  David Barno, Director of the Near East-South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. Council on Foreign Relations
• [15 May 06] Afghanistan Stage III: NATO's Most Ambitious Operation?
  Francis Rheinheimer. Center for Defense Information
• [9 Jan 06] Dutch Retreat? The Perils of Turning Afghanistan over to NATO
  Vance Serchuk. American Enterprise Institute
• [8 Jan 06] Back Up NATO's Afghanistan Force
  Philip H. Gordon. Brookings Institution
• [8 Dec 05] Final Communiqué
  NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting
• [8 Dec 05] News Conference
  Jaap De Hoop Scheffer, NATO Secretary General
• [6 Dec 05] Rice Faces 'Tough Sale' to Persuade NATO Allies on Expanding Force in Afghanistan
  Robert E. Hunter. Council on Foreign Relations          

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Politics & Government

• [current] Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan
• [current] Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - Office of the President
• [current] Wolesi Jirga and Provincial Council Elections
  Joint Afghan-U.N. Electoral Management Body
• [2 Feb 10] Delays Will Not Improve Afghan Elections
  Scott Worden. United States Institute of Peace
• [Jan 10] Corruption in Afghanistan: Bribery as Reported by the Victims
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [Jan 10] Governance in Afghanistan in a Regional Perspective
  Christian Wagner. Afghanistan Analysts Network
• [22 Dec 09] Afghanistan: Politics, Elections, and Government Performance
  Kenneth Katzman. Congressional Research Service
• [2 Dec 09] Press Release: Afghanistan Welcomes the New U.S. Strategy
  Office of the President, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
• [Dec 09] Afghanistan Governed by a Federal System with Autonomous Regions: A Path to Success?
  Bryan Carroll and David A. Anderson. Small Wars Journal
• [Dec 09] A Holistic Justice System for Afghanistan
  Deborah J. Smith and Jay Lamey. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [25 Nov 09] Afghanistan: Elections and the Crisis of Governance
  International Crisis Group
• [24 Nov 09] Hamid Karzai's Second Term as Afghanistan's President: Promises, Challenges and Prospects
  Shahid Javed Burki. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
• [4 Nov 09] Afghanistan Presidential Elections 2009: The 'Run-off' That Never Was
  Shahid Javed Burki. Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore
• [3 Nov 09] Karzai's Moment of Opportunity
  Zalmay M. Khalilzad. Council on Foreign Relations
• [Nov 09] Losing Legitimacy? Some Afghan Views on the Government, the International Community, and the 2009 Elections
  Noah Coburn. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Nov 09] Voting Together: Why Afghanistan's 2009 Elections Were (and Were Not) a Disaster
  Noah Coburn and Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [28 Oct 09] Our Faustian Bargains in Afghanistan: Ex-Warlords Continue to Hold Back Democratic Governance
  Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, and Christina Misunas. Center for American Progress
• [26 Oct 09] Profiles of Afghan Power Brokers
  Center for American Progress
• [23 Oct 09] Painting Democracy on Afghanistan
  Thomas H. Johnson. Council on Foreign Relations
• [16 Sep 09] Political Quagmire in Afghanistan
  International Council on Security and Development
• [3 Sep 09] Polling Day Fraud in the Afghan Elections
  Afghanistan Analysts Network
• [Sep 09] A New Approach to Afghanistan: Rigged Vote Sharpens Strategic Challenge
  Alexander Nicoll and Jessica Delaney, eds. International Institute for Strategic Studies
• [Sep 09] What Democracy for Afghanistan? An Analysis Utilizing Established Norms and Five Non-Western Case Studies
  Charles L. Barry and Samuel R. Greene. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
• [Sep 09] A Closer Look: The Policy and Law-Making Process Behind the Shiite Personal Status Law
  Lauryn Oates. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Sep 09] Toward an Afghan Democracy? Exploring Perceptions of Democratisation in Afghanistan
  Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [25 Aug 09] Prospects for Afghanistan's Future: Assessing the Outcome of the Afghan Presidential Election
  Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
• [22 Aug 09] Preliminary Statement of the NDI Election Observer Delegation to Afghanistan's 2009 Presidential and Provincial Council Elections
  National Democratic Institute
• [19 Aug 09] Afghan Presidential Elections: The Quest for Change
  Shanthie Mariet D'Souza. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
• [17 Aug 09] Afghan Elections: A Perilous Time
  Ahmed Rashid. Council on Foreign Relations
• [13 Aug 09] The 2009 Afghanistan Elections and the Future of Governance
  Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
• [12 Aug 09] The Taliban and the Afghan Elections
  Bruce Riedel. Brookings Institution
• [5 Aug 09] Afghan Election: Prospects for the Future
  Transcript of a Center for National Policy event
• [Aug 09] Warlords as Bureaucrats: The Afghan Experience
  Dipali Mukhopadhyay. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [Aug 09] Patronage, Posturing, Duty, Demographics: Why Afghans Voted in 2009
  Noah Coburn and Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Aug 09] Afghanistan's Alternatives for Peace, Governance and Development: Transforming Subjects to Citizens and Rulers to Civil Servants
  M. Nazif Shahrani. Centre for International Governance Innovation
• [Aug 09] Afghanistan Elections: Guns and Money
  International Council on Security and Development
• [Aug 09] How to Win an Afghan Election: Perceptions and Practices
  Martine van Bijlert. Afghanistan Analysts Network
• [July 09] AIHRC-UNAMA Joint Monitoring of Political Rights: Presidential and Provincial Council Elections - First Report, 25 April - 12 June 2009
  Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
• [24 June 09] Afghanistan's Election Challenges
  International Crisis Group
• [18 May 09] Middle East Elections 2009: Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan and Iraq
  Casey L. Addis and Kenneth Katzman. Congressional Research Service
• [5 May 09] Governance, Growth and Development in Afghanistan
  Remarks by Hamid Karzai, President, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, at the Brookings Institution
• [May 09] Between Discipline and Discretion: Policies Surrounding Senior Subnational Appointments
  Martine van Bijlert. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [March 09] Afghanistan's Presidential Election: Power to the People, or the Powerful?
  International Council on Security and Development
• [March 09] Afghanistan's New Democratic Parties: A Means to Organise Democratisation?
  Anna Larson. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [March 09] Resolving the Crisis over Constitutional Interpretation in Afghanistan
  John Dempsey and J. Alexander Thier. United States Institute of Peace
• [29 Jan 09] Afghanistan's Presidential Election
  Ahmad Majidyar.  American Enterprise Institute
• [Nov 08] Elections in 2009 and 2010: Technical and Contextual Challenges to Building Democracy in Afghanistan
  Grant Kippen. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Fall 08] Is Time Ripe for Transitional Justice in Afghanistan?
  David Wisner. al Nakhlah
• [June 08] Afghanistan - Building an Effective State: Priorities for Public Administration Reform
  The World Bank
• [June 08] A Change of Paradigm in Afghanistan: Afghan Government Ownership Instead of Donor Priorities
  Citha D. Maass. German Institute for International and Security Affairs
• [29 May 08] Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Return to the Afghan Insurgency
  Muhammad Tahir. Jamestown Foundation
• [15 April 08] Afghanistan's Economic Fortunes
  Anwar-ul-Haq Ahadi, Minister of Finance, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Council on Foreign Relations
• [Feb 08] Moving to the Mainstream: Integrating Gender in Afghanistan's National Policy
  Anna Wordsworth. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Feb 08] The Changing Face of Local Governance? Community Development Councils in Afghanistan
  Hamish Nixon. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [16 April 07] Afghanistan's Fiscal Future and Challenges
  Transcript of a Brookings Institution event featuring Anwar ul-Haq Ahadi, Minister of Finance, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
• [21 Sep 06] A Conversation with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai
  Council on Foreign Relations
• [21 Sep 06] Karzai Says Pakistan Holds Key to Ending Afghan Violence
  Lionel Beehner.  Council on Foreign Relations
• [20 Sep 06] Statement by His Excellency Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, to the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly
• [Sep 06] Moving Forward? Assessing Public Administration Reform in Afghanistan
  Sarah Lister.  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [15 May 06] Afghanistan's New Legislature: Making Democracy Work
  International Crisis Group
• [Feb 06] The Prospects for Post-Conflict Afghanistan: A Call of the Sirens to the Country's Troubled Past
  Thomas H. Johnson. Strategic Insights
• [22 Sep 05] A Conversation with Abdullah Abdullah
  Abdullah Abdullah, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Council on Foreign Relations

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Rebuilding Afghanistan

• [current] Afghanistan: Emergency Maps
  ReliefWeb
• [27 Jan 10] Quick Impact, Quick Collapse: The Dangers of Militarized Aid in Afghanistan
  ReliefWeb
• [Jan 10] Economic Development and Security for Afghanistan: Increasing Jobs and Income with the Help of the Gulf States
  Guenter Overfeld and Michael Zumot. EastWest Institute
• [Jan 10] The State of the Afghan State
  Anders Fänge. Afghanistan Analysts Network
• [Dec 09] Establishing Leadership on Civilian Assistance to Afghanistan
  William B. Taylor, Jr. and J. Alexander Thier. United States Institute of Peace
• [Dec 09] The Northern Distribution Network and the Modern Silk Road: Planning for Afghanistan's Future
  Andrew C. Kuchins, Thomas M. Sanderson, and David A. Gordon. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [4 Nov 09] Afghan National Security Forces: Shaping Host Country Forces as Part of Armed Nation Building
  Anthony H. Cordesman and Adam Mausner. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [Nov 09] Afghanistan
  Security Sector Reform Monitor, Centre for International Governance Innovation
• [Nov 09] The Strategic Quagmire: Why Nation Building in Afghanistan is Failing
  Anil Hira. Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
• [Nov 09] A Case Study in Security Sector Reform: Learning from Security Sector Reform/Building in Afghanistan (October 2002 - September 2003)
  Jason C. Howk. Strategic Studies Institute
• [15 Oct 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan Reconstruction Opportunity Zones (ROZs), H.R. 1318/H.R.1886/H.R. 2410 and S. 496: Issues and Arguments
  Mary Jane Bolle. Congressional Research Service
• [July/Aug 09] Adult Education in Afghanistan: The Key to Political and Economic Transformation
  CAPT Chad M. Pillai, USA. Military Review
• [30 July 09] U.S. Needs a Stronger Commitment to Improving Afghan Governance
  Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
• [8 July 09] Afghanistan: U.S. Foreign Assistance
  Cart Tarnoff. Congressional Research Service
• [July 09] Afghanistan
  Mark Sedra, ed. Security Sector Reform Monitor, Centre for International Governance Innovation
• [July 09] Afghanistan: Looking Forward
  Ronald E. Neumann. Centre for International Governance Innovation
• [26 May 09] Nourishing Afghanistan's Agricultural Sector
  Greg Bruno. Council on Foreign Relations
• [May 09] Policymaking in Agricultural and Rural Development
  Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [April 09] Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan: The EU's Contribution
  Eva Gross. European Union Institute for Security Studies
• [April 09] Reflections on the Paris Declaration and Aid Effectivess in Afghanistan
  Rebecca Roberts. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [April 09] Mutual Accountability in Afghanistan: Promoting Partnerships in Development Aid?
  Marieke Denissen. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [March 09] State-Building and Rule of Law: Lessons from Afghanistan?
  Sari Kouvo. NATO Defense College
• [March 09] Provincial Reconstruction Teams: How Do We Know They Work?
  Carter Malkasian and Gerald Meyerle. Strategic Studies Institute
• [March 09] A Pathway to Success in Afghanistan: The National Solidarity Program
  John A. Nagl, Andrew M. Exum, Ahmed A. Humayun. Center for a New American Security
• [Spring 09] Enhancing the Footprint: Stakeholders in Afghan Reconstruction
  Bas Rietjens, Myriame Bollen, Masood Khalil, and Sayed Fazullah Wahidi. Parameters
• [Feb 09] The Afghan National Development Strategy: The Right Plan at the Wrong Time
  Jake Sherman. Journal of Security Sector Management
• [Feb 09] Afghanistan: From Insurgency to Stabilisation
  Patrick Mercer, Richard Kemp, and Peter Middlebrook. Centre for Security Sector Management, Cranfield University
• [Feb 09] Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS) Formulation Process: Influencing Factors and Challenges
  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Jan 09] Enhancing Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations
  Julian Lindley-French. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [Jan 09] Delivering on Poverty Reduction: Focusing ANDS Implementation on Pro-Poor Outcomes
  Paula Kantor and Adam Pain. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Dec 08] State Building, Security, and Social Change in Afghanistan: Reflections on a Survey of the Afghan People
  Asia Foundation
• [Dec 08] The Seven Capital Sins of the Donor Community in Afghanistan
  Serge Michailof. German Marshall Fund of the United States
• [Nov 08] The Role of Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Counterinsurgency Operations: Khost Province, Afghanistan
  Robert J. Bebber. Small Wars Journal
• [1 Oct 08] Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan and Iraq
  Government Accountability Office
• [Oct 08] Stabilizing Afghanistan: Threats and Challenges
  William Maley. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [8 July 08] Afghanistan Reconstruction: Progress Made in Constructing Roads, but Assessments for Determining Impact and a Sustainable Maintenance Program Are Needed
  Government Accountability Office
• [July 08] Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Fourth Review Under the Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and Request for Waiver of Performance Criterion
  International Monetary Fund
• [9 June 08] More Investment Will Bring Security to Afghanistan
  Mahmoud Saikal. Council on Foreign Relations
• [June 08] Afghanistan: Not Lost, But Needs More Attention
  Mohammad M. Stanekzai. United States Institute of Peace
• [May 08] The Role of Medical Diplomacy in Stabilizing Afghanistan
  Donald F. Thompson. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
• [21 April 08] Uncertain Afghanistan
  Yves Boyer and Franz Borkenhagen. Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique
• [2 April 08] Success in Afghanistan: How to Define it, How to Make it Happen
  Statement by Nick Grono, Deputy President (Operations), International Crsis Group, at a Policy Dialogue conference sponsored by the European Policy Centre
• [April 08] Afghanistan National Development Strategy: 1387-1391 (2008-2013) - A Strategy for Security, Governance, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction
  Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
• [April 08] Subnational State-Building in Afghanistan
  Hamish Nixon. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [April 08] Implementation: A New Approach to Multinational Coordination in Afghanistan
  Amb. Ronald E. Neumann. Stanley Foundation
• [March 08] Falling Short: Aid Effectiveness in Afghanistan
  Matt Waldman. Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief
• [15 Feb 08] Who Should Lead Post-Conflict Reconstruction?
  Craig Cohen and Col. Garland H. Williams, Council on Foreign Relations
• [Feb 08] Community Peacebuilding in Afghanistan: The Case for a National Strategy
  Matt Waldman. Oxfam International
• [Feb 08] Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper - Progress Report
  International Monetary Fund
• [Feb 08] Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Selected Issues
  Mohamad Elhage, et al. International Monetary Fund
• [Jan 08] Information and Communication Technologies for Reconstruction and Development: Afghanistan Challenges and Opportunities
  Larry Wentz, Frank Kramer, and Stuart Starr. Center for Technology and National Security Policy
• [Jan 08] Afghanistan: Development and Humanitarian Priorities
  Oxfam
• [Jan 08] Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan
  Markus Gauster.  George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies
• [Nov 07] Afghanistan's Economy: On the Right Road, but Still a Long Way to Go
  Beth Ellen Cole.  United States Institute of Peace
• [Nov 07] Armed Nation Building: The Real Challenge in Afghanistan
  Anthony H. Cordesman.  Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [Oct 07] Overcoming the Obstacles to Establishing a Democratic State in Afghanistan
  Dennis O. Young.  Strategic Studies Institute
• [28 June 07] Getting the Fundamentals Right: The Early Stages of Afghanistan's WTO Accession Process
  Oxfam International
• [May/June 07] Committing to Afghanistan: The Case for Increasing U.S. Reconstruction and Stabilization Aid
  Craig C. Colucci. Military Review
• [24 May 07] Securing, Stabilizing, and Reconstructing Afghanistan: Key Issues for Congressional Oversight
  Government Accountability Office
• [May 07] Public Health and Conflict Series: Rebuilding a Nation's Health in Afghanistan
  Sarah Dye. United States Institute of Peace
• [April 07] Ten Counterinsurgency Commandments from Afghanistan
  Greg Mills. Foreign Policy Research Institute
• [March 07] Breaking Point: Measuring Progress in Afghanistan
  Seema Patel and Steven Ross.  Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [24 Oct 06] Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan: Canada's Leadership to Break the Cycle of Violence in Southern Afghanistan
  Senlis Council
• [6 Oct 06] Voices of Afghanistan: An Evaluation Study
  Seema Patel.  Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [Fall 06] Retooling the Nationbuilding Strategy in Afghanistan
  Vincent M. Dreyer.  Joint Force Quarterly
• [8 Aug 06] Afghanistan: Keep up the War on Terror at its Source
  Nick Grono and Joanna Nathan. International Crisis Group
• [1 Aug 06] The Reconstruction of Afghanistan: A Fight for Survival
  Famid Sinha and Teresita Schaffer. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [Aug 06] Urban Livelihoods in Afghanistan
  Jo Beall and Stefan Schütte.  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [6 July 06] Rescuing Afghan Reconstruction
  Teresita C. Schaffer. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [1 June 06] Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
  International Monetary Fund
• [25 May 06] Failed States, Governance and Nation-Building: The Case of Afghanistan
  Greg Mills. Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies
• [10 May 06] Afghanistan - Sustainable Development of Natural Resources Project
  World Bank
• [10 May 06] What Ails Afghanistan?
  Chris Patten. International Crisis Group
• [April 06] Afghanistan's Uncertain Transition from Turmoil to Normalcy
  Barnett R. Rubin. Council on Foreign Relations
• [March/April 06] Afghanistan: The Night Fairies
  Sarah Chayes. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• [Spring 06] Rebuilding the Judicial Sector in Afghanistan: The Role of Customary Law
  Amy Senier. Al Nakhlah
• [Feb 06] Afghans, International Community Chart A Joint Path Forward
  U.S. Institute of Peace
• [1 Feb 06] The Afghanistan Compact
  London Conference on Afghanistan
• [31 Jan 06] Afghans Likely to be Disappointed at London Conference
  Amin Tarzi. Council on Foreign Relations
• [27 Jan 06] Living on a Life Support Machine: The Challenge of Rebuilding Afghanistan
  Peter J. Middlebrook and Sharon M. Miller. Foreign Policy in Focus
• [27 Jan 06] Lessons in Post Conflict Reconstruction from the New Afghanistan Compact
  Peter J. Middlebrook and Sharon M. Miller. Foreign Policy in Focus
• [17 Jan 06] Increased Security Amidst a Mounting Insurgency: A Close Look at the Afghan Security Paradox
  Joseph Button. Center for Defense Information

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The Taliban

• [28 Jan 10] Negotiations and Reconciliation with the Taliban: The Key Policy Issues and Dilemmas
  Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
• [Jan 10] Why is it Important to Talk to the Taliban?
  Ali Iqbal. Small Wars Journal
• [21 Dec 09] The Quetta Shura Taliban in Southern Afghanistan: Organization, Operations, and Shadow Governance
  Jeffrey Dressler and Carl Forsberg. Institute for the Study of War
• [Dec 09] The Taliban's Campaign for Kandahar
  Carl Forsberg. Institute for the Study of War
• [25 Nov 09] The al-Qaeda-Taliban Nexus
  Richard Barrett, Sajjan M. Gohel, Ronald E. Neumann, and Nigel Inkster.  Council on Foreign Relations
• [25 Nov 09] Taliban Expand Insurgency to Northern Afghanistan
  Wahidullah Mohammad. Jamestown Foundation
• [5 Nov 09] Reconciliation and Insurgency: Political Strategies in the Afghan War
  Transcript of a Center for American Progress event
• [22 Oct 09] Who Are the Taliban?
  Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [15 Oct 09] Reconciliation with the Taliban: The View from Kabul
  Remarks by Davood Moradian, Senior Policy Advisor to the Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies
• [29 Sep 09] Al-Qaida and Taliban Status Check: A Resurgent Threat?
  Remarks by Richard Barrett, Coordinator, Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee, United Nations, at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• [Sep 09] Securing Helmand: Understanding and Responding to the Enemy
  Jeffrey A. Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
• [12 Aug 09] Inside Kabul: Dispatch from Afghanistan
  Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [12 Aug 09] The Taliban and the Afghan Elections
  Bruce Riedel. Brookings Institution
• [3 Aug 09] The Taliban in Afghanistan
  Eben Kaplan and Greg Bruno. Council on Foreign Relations
• [Aug 09] How Opium Profits the Taliban
  Gretchen Peters. United States Institute of Peace
• [18 June 09] Reaction of the Afghan Taliban to the Pakistani Government's Offensive in Swat
  Wahidullah Mohammad. Jamestown Foundation
• [2 June 09] The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
  Foreign Press Center briefing by Amin Tarzi, Director of Middle East Studies, Marine Corps University
• [June 09] The Taliban's Winning Strategy in Afghanistan
  Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [15 April 09] How Dangerous Are the Taliban: Why Afghanistan is the Wrong War
  John Mueller. Foreign Affairs
• [April 09] Reconciling with the Taliban: Toward an Alternative Grand Strategy in Afghanistan
  Ashley J. Tellis. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [20 March 09] Six Experts on Negotiating with the Taliban
  Shuja Nawaz, et al. Council on Foreign Relations
• [17 Feb 09] Micro-Diplomacy in Afghanistan: Disaggregating and Engaging the Taliban
  Frank J. Cilluffo and Joseph R. Clark. Homeland Security Policy Institute
• [20 Jan 09] Afghanistan: From the Military to the Political Solution
  Vinay Kumar Pathak and Syed Adnan Ali Shah. S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• [Dec 08] Struggle for Kabul: The Taliban Advance
  International Council on Security and Development
• [25 Nov 08] Going to "Plan B": Negotiations with Taliban May Shape a New Afghanistan
  Chris Zambelis. Jamestown Foundation
• [2 Sep 08] Mass Attack on French Paratroopers Heralds New Taliban Tactics
  Andrew McGregor. Jamestown Foundation
• [24 July 08] Taliban Propaganda: Winning the War of Words?
  International Crisis Group
• [10 July 08] Fueling the Taliban: Poppies, Guns and Insurgents
  Muhammad Tahir. Jamestown Foundation
• [23 May 08] The Father of the Taliban: An Interview with Maulana Sami ul-Haq
  Imtiaz Ali. Jamestown Foundation
• [April 08] Insurgents in Afghanistan Have Mastered Media Manipulation
  Sean D. Naylor. Armed Forces Journal
• [14 Dec 07] The Resurgence of the Neo-Taliban
  Antonio Giustozzi.  openDemocracy
• [12 Oct 07] Afghanistan: Necessity and Impossibility
  Philip Jakeman.  openDemocracy
• [16 Aug 07] Talk to the Taliban
  Tarique Nizai.  Foreign Policy in Focus
• [Aug 07] The Taliban and the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA)
  Magnus Norell.  China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
• [14 June 07] Is Iran Abetting the Taliban?
  Lionel Beehner. Council on Foreign Relations
• [June 07] The Taliban's Propaganda Activities: How Well is the Insurgency Communicating and What is it Saying?
  Tim Foxley.  Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
• [June 07] Taliban Politics and Afghan Legitimate Grievances
  Senlis Council
• [24 May 07] A Report from the Field: Gauging the Impact of Taliban Suicide Bombing
  Brian Glyn Williams. Jamestown Foundation
• [23 May 07] The Father of the Taliban: An Interview with Maulana Sami Ul-Haq
  Imtiaz Ali. Jamestown Foundation
• [10 May 07] South Waziristan's Maulvi Nazir: The New Face of the Taliban
  Hassan Abbas. Jamestown Foundation
• [3 May 07] Afghanistan's Veteran Jihadi Leader: An Interview with Qazi Mohammad Amin Waqad
  Waliullah Rahmani. Jamestown Foundation
• [May 07] On the Edge of the Big Muddy: The Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan
  Thomas H. Johnson.  China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
• [April 07] The Situation in Afghanistan: A Re-Evaluation Needed
  Beth Cole and Catherine Morris. United States Institute of Peace
• [1 March 07] Cheney Attack Reveals Taliban Suicide Bombing Patterns
  Brian Glyn Williams. Jamestown Foundation
• [31 Jan 07] Afghanistan's Local Insurgency
  Seth Jones. RAND Corporation       

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Terrorism

• [25 Nov 09] The al-Qaeda-Taliban Nexus
  Richard Barrett, Sajjan M. Gohel, Ronald E. Neumann, and Nigel Inkster.  Council on Foreign Relations
• [29 Sep 09] Al-Qaida and Taliban Status Check: A Resurgent Threat?
  Remarks by Richard Barrett, Coordinator, Al-Qaida and Taliban Sanctions Committee, United Nations, at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
• [20 March 09] The Troubled Afghan-Pakistani Border
  Jayshree Bajoria.  Council on Foreign Relations
• [30 Nov 08] The Implications of the Mumbai Attacks for Afghanistan
  Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
• [21 Nov 08] Islamist Militancy in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Region and U.S. Policy
  K. Alan Kronstadt and Kenneth Katzman. Congressional Research Service
• [7 Oct 08] Descent Into Chaos: The U.S. and the Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
  Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
• [29 July 08] Al-Qaeda's Military Chief in Afghanistan Views the Ongoing Insurgency with Optimism
  Michael Scheuer. Jamestown Foundation
• [23 June 08] Why NATO Must Win in Afghanistan: A Central Front in the War on Terrorism
  Sally McNamara. Heritage Foundation
• [24 March 08] The Haqqani Network and Cross-Border Terrorism in Afghanistan
  Imtiaz Ali. Jamestown Foundation
• [3 July 07] Al-Qaeda's New Leader in Afghanistan: A Profile of Abu al-Yazid
  Michael Scheuer.  Jamestown Foundation
• [Feb 07] The Islamic Emirate of Waziristan and the Bajaur Tribal Region: The Strategic Threat of Terrorist Sanctuaries
  Eric Sayers.  Center for Security Policy
• [22 Nov 06] Five Years after the Fall of the Taliban: Afghanistan and the War on Terror
  Beth Ellen Cole and Jorge Aguilar.  United States Institute of Peace
• [2 Nov 06] Combating the Ideology of Suicide Terrorism in Afghanistan
  Waliullah Rahmani.  Jamestown Foundation
• [21 Sep 06] Gulbuddin Hekmatyar: From Holy Warrior to Wanted Terrorist
  Omid Marzban.  Jamestown Foundation
• [18 July 06] Amanullah Guzar Attempts to Maintain Stability in Kabul
  Waliullah Rahmani. Jamestown Foundation
• [18 July 06] Hell in Helmand
  Irfan Husain. openDemocracy
• [11 July 06] Kabul Bombings Reveal Mounting Challenges Faced by the Karzai Government
  Christopher Swift. Jamestown Foundation
• [July 06] Lessons in Terror: Attacks on Education in Afghanistan
  Human Rights Watch
• [June 06] Helmand at War: The Changing Nature of the Insurgency in Southern Afghanistan and Its Effects on the Future of the Country
  Senlis Council
• [May 06] Cross Border Terrorism Issues Plaguing Pakistan-Afghanistan Relations
  Rizwan Zeb. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
• [20 April 06] Kandahar Province and the New Wave of Violence
  Waliullah Rahmani. Jamestown Foundation
• [27 March 06] Afghanistan and the Logic of Suicide Terrorism
  Hekmat Karzai. Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies
• [23 March 06] Helmand Province and the Afghan Insurgency
  Waliullah Rahmani. Jamestown Foundation
• [14 Feb 06] Afghanistan's New Security Threat
  Esther Pan. Council on Foreign Relations
• [Feb 06] Afghan Insurgency Still A Potent Force
  U.S. Institute of Peace
• [11 Jan 06] Afghan Public Overwhelmingly Rejects al-Qaeda, Taliban
  World Public Opinion
• [19 Jan 06] Are We Winning the War on Terrorism? A Report from Afghanistan
  Brookings Institution
• [Dec 05] Terrorism Havens: Afghanistan
  Council on Foreign Relations
• [05] Terrorist Attacks in Afghanistan (Jan - May, 2005)
  Afghanistan Watch

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• [Jan 10] Afghanistan: Annual Report on Protection of Citizens in Armed Conflict, 2009
  United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
• [Jan 10] Corruption in Afghanistan: Bribery as Reported by the Victims
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [28 Dec 09] The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security
  Report of the Secretary-General to the United Nations General Assembly, Security Council
• [Dec 09] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2009
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [Oct 09] Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [Sep 09] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2009: Summary Findings
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [30 July 09] United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan: Background and Policy Issues
  Rhoda Margesson. Congressional Research Service
• [July 09] Afghanistan: Mid Year Bulletin on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 2009
  United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan
• [July 09] AIHRC-UNAMA Joint Monitoring of Political Rights: Presidential and Provincial Council Elections - First Report, 25 April - 12 June 2009
  Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
• [23 June 09] The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security
  Report of the Secretary-General, United Nations
• [Jan 09] Afghanistan: Annual Report on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 2008
  United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan, Human Rights Unit
• [Jan 09] Afghanistan: Opium Winter Assessment
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [Aug 08] Afghanistan Opium Survey 2008: Executive Summary
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [June 08] Justice for Children: The Situation for Children in Conflict with the Law in Afghanistan
  United Nations' Children's Fund - UNICEF
• [28 April 08] Afghanistan: A New Start?
  Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace featuring Kai Eide, Special Representative in Afghanistan, United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan
• [May 08] Afghanistan: Implementing Alternatives to Imprisonment, in Line with International Standards and National Legislation
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [6 March 08] The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security
  Report of the Secretary-General to the Security Council
• [9 Sept 07] Suicide Attacks in Afghanistan (2001 - 2007)
  United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan
• [Aug 07] Afghanistan Opium Survey Executive Summary
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [17 July 07] The Situation in Afghanistan
  Statement by the President of the Security Council
• [23 March 07] United Nations Security Council Resolution 1746 on Afghanistan
• [15 March 07] The Situation in Afghanistan and its Implications for International Peace and Security
  Report of the Secretary-General
• [Feb 07] Afghanistan: Opium Winter Rapid Assessment Survey
  United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
• [4 Dec 06] Report of the Security Council Mission to Afghanistan, 11 to 16 November 2006
• [9 Oct 06] Security Council Press Statement on Afghanistan
• [12 Sep 06] Resolution 1707 - the Situation in Afghanistan
  United Nations Security Council
• [7 March 06] The Situation in Afghanistan and Its Implications for International Peace and Security
  Report of the Secretary General to the Security Council
• [15 Feb 06] The Situation in Afghanistan
  United Nations Security Council
• [n.d.] Agreement on Provisional Arrangements in Afghanistan Pending the Re-establishment of Permanent Government Institutions

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Research & Analysis

• [27 Jan 10] Afghanistan Success Hinges on Karzai Reforms
  Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
• [25 Jan 10] Afghanistan, NATO and European Security
  Remarks by Bob Ainsworth, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom, at Chatham House
• [19 Jan 09] The Department of Defense's Use of Private Security Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Background, Analysis, and Options for Congress
  Moshe Schwartz. Congressional Research Service
• [Jan 10] Conceptualizing AfPak: The Prospects and Perils
  Ayesha R. Khan. Chatham House
• [Jan 10] The Northern Distirbution Network and Afghanistan: Geopolitical Challenges and Opportunities
  Andrew C. Kuchins and Thomas M. Sanderson, et al. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [Jan 10] Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan
  MG Michael T. Flynn, USA, Capt Matt Pottinger, USMC, and Paul D. Batchelor. Center for a New American Security
• [Winter 10] Civil-Military Integration in Afghanistan: Creating Unity of Command
  Joshua W. Welle. Joint Force Quarterly
• [Winter 10] A Better War in Afghanistan
  John A. Nagl. Joint Force Quarterly
• [22 Dec 09] Private Security Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Legal Issues
  Jennifer K. Elsea. Congressional Research Service
• [17 Dec 09] Courage and Commitment: Doing the Job in Afghanistan, Supporting Personnel at Home
  Remarks by Bob Ainsworth, Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom, at the Royal United Services Institute
• [15 Dec 09] U.S. Policy in Afghanistan
  Transcript of a Council on Foreign Relations event featuring Richard C. Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
• [14 Dec 09] Department of Defense Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan: Background and Analysis
  Moshe Schwartz. Congressional Research Service
• [10 Dec 09] Shaping Afghan National Security Forces: What It Will Take to Implement President Obama's New Strategy
  Anthony H. Cordesman and Adam Mausner. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [3 Dec 09] War in Afghanistan: Strategy, Military Operations, and Issues for Congress
  Steve Bowman and Catherine Dale. Congressional Research Service
• [2 Dec 09] One Tribe at a Time: A Strategy for Success in Afghanistan
  MAJ Jim Gant, U.S. Army Special Forces
  NOTE: Publication available by permission by Steven Pressfield
• [2 Dec 09] Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy
  Kenneth Katzman. Congressional Research Service
• [2 Dec 09] Obama's New Strategy in Afghanistan: The Proof Will Lie in the Success of its Execution
  Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [2 Dec 09] Assessing the Afghan Surge
  Greg Bruno, et al. Council on Foreign Relations
• [2 Dec 09] Obama's Withdrawal Date a Controversial Gambit
  Stephen Biddle. Council on Foreign Relations
• [2 Dec 09] President Obama's Afghanistan Speech: An Uncertain Message
  Lisa Curtis and James Phillips. Heritage Foundation
• [2 Dec 09] President Obama's New Strategy in Afghanistan: Questions and Answers
  Vanda Felbab-Brown. Brookings Institution
• [2 Dec 09] Statement on President Obama's Address to the Nation on Afghanistan
  Center for American Progress
• [1 Dec 09] Estimating Funding for Afghanistan
  Todd Harrison. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
• [1 Dec 09] The Afghanistan Decision
  Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [Dec 09] Accelerating Combat Power in Afghanistan
  LTG James M. Dubik, USA (ret.). Institute for the Study of War
• [Dec 09] From Identity Crisis to Identity in Crisis in Afghanistan
  Zaman Stanizai. Middle East Institute
• [Dec 09] Afghanistan: Time to Curb the Law of Inertia
  Luis Peral. European Union Institute for Security Studies
• [Dec 09] Obama's Surge: The United States, Australia and the Second War for Afghanistan
  Anthony Bubalo. Lowy Institute for International Policy
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• [Dec 09] A New Approach to the Delivery of U.S. Assistance to Afghanistan
  William M. Frej and David Hatch. PRISM: A Journal of the Center for Complex Operations
• [Nov/Dec 09] Refighting the Last War: Afghanistan and the Vietnam Template
  Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason. Military Review
• [18 Nov 09] The Afghan Strategy Checklist: How to Evaluate the Effectiveness and Credibility of a Defining Test of Obama's Leadership
  Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [9 Nov 09] U.S. Afghan Strategy: The Big Questions
  Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event
• [6 Nov 09] Speech on Afghanistan
  Remarks by Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, at the Royal College of Defence Studies
• [5 Nov 09] Afghanistan's Security Environment
  Government Accountability Office
• [4 Nov 09] Afghan National Security Forces: Shaping Host Country Forces as Part of Armed Nation Building
  Anthony H. Cordesman and Adam Mausner. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [3 Nov 09] More Afghan Troops Needed to Secure Afghanistan
  Maj. Gen. Richard P. Formica, Commanding General, Combined-Security Transition Command - Afghanistan. Council on Foreign Relations
• [2 Nov 09] Finding a Way Forward in Afghanistan
  Raspal Khosa. Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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• [Nov 09] Fixing Bagram: Strengthening Detention Reforms to Align with U.S. Strategic Priorities
  Sahr MuhammedAlly. Human Rights First
• [Nov 09] Development and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Agnieszka Paczynska. National Bureau of Asian Research
• [Nov 09] Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars: Afghan State-Building Views from the Margins
  Jonathan Goodhand. Danish Institute for International Studies
• [Nov 09] Engaging Regional Players in Afghanistan: Threats and Opportunities
  Shiza Shahid. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [Nov 09] Reforming the Afghan National Army (ANA)
  Jeff Haynes. Foreign Policy Research Institute
• [Nov 09] Fixing a Failed Strategy in Afghanistan
  Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [Nov 09] The MAGAI™ Construct and the Northern Distribution Network
  Stephen Benson. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [Nov 09] End-State Afghanistan: A European Perspective
  Jo Coelmont. EGMONT: Royal Institute for International Relations
• [Nov 09] What Afghans Want
  Andrew Garfield. Foreign Policy Research Institute
• [29 Oct 09] Briefing on Afghanistan
  Transcript of a Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs event
• [28 Oct 09] Setting Out the Conditions for 'Success' in Afghanistan
  Mark Sedra. Foreign Policy in Focus
• [21 Oct 09] Toward a Kilcullen-Biden Plan? Bounding Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
  Tony Corn. Small Wars Journal
• [16 Oct 09] The Case for Humility in Afghanistan
  Steve Coll. Foreign Policy
• [16 Oct 09] The Afghanistan Debate: Assessing the President's Policy Options
  Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
• [14 Oct 09] General McCrystal's Confidential Assessment: A Case for Redefining Victory in Afghanistan
  Roman Muzalevsky. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
• [8 Oct 09] The Danger of Delay in Afghan Policymaking
  Bruce O. Riedel. Council on Foreign Relations
• [6 Oct 09] Afghanistan: Is it Mission Impossible?
  Transcript of a Chatham House event
• [1 Oct 09] Contingency Contracting: DOD, State, and USAID Continue to Face Challenges in Tracking Contractor Personnel and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan
  Government Accountability Office
• [Oct 09] Stabilization of Afghanistan: U.S.-NATO Regional Strategy and the Role of the SCO
  Simbal Khan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
• [Oct 09] Afghanistan in 2009: A Survey of the Afghan People
  The Asia Foundation
• [Oct 09] Caught in the Crossfire: The Pashtun Tribes of Southeast Afghanistan
  Tom Gregg. Lowy Institute for International Policy
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• [Oct 09] Afghanistan 2011: Three Scenarios
  Andrew M. Exum. Center for a New American Security
• [Oct 09] Unity of Effort: Key to Success in Afghanistan
  Christopher J. Lamb and Martin Cinnamond. Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University
• [29 Sep 09] Afghanistan's Hard Summer: The Impact on European Troop Contributing Nations
  Toby Archer, ed. Finnish Institute of International Affairs
• [29 Sep 09] An Afghan Path Toward Stability
  Clare Lockhart. Council on Foreign Relations
• [28 Sep 09] The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11
  Amy Belasco. Congressional Research Service
• [28 Sep 09] Resourcing an Afghan Strategy
  Greg Bruno, et al. Council on Foreign Relations
• [17 Sep 09] The War in Afghanistan: Why Britain, America, and NATO Must Fight to Win
  Liam Fox.  Heritage Foundation
• [17 Sep 09] At the Center of the Storm: An Interview with Afghanistan's Lieutenant General Hadi Khalid - Part Two
  Derek Henry Flood. Jamestown Foundation
• [15 Sep 09] America's Involvement in Afghanistan
  Shahid Javed Burki. Institute of South Asian Studies
• [15 Sep 09] Winning in Afghanistan: How the US Will Win or Lose the War
  Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [12 Sep 09] The Levin "Plan": A Wrong Approach in Afghanistan
  Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [10 Sep 09] At the Center of the Storm: An Interview with Afghanistan's Lieutenant General Hadi Khalid - Part One
  Derek Henry Flood. Jamestown Foundation
• [9 Sep 09] What's Really Happening in Afghanistan: A Report from the Field
  Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [9 Sep 09] Afghanistan's Troop Deficit Problem
  Kimberly Kagan. Council on Foreign Relations
• [3 Sep 09] Afghanistan after the Election: What Next?
  Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event
• [Sep 09] Reforming the Afghan National Police
  Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies and the Foreign Policy Research Institute
• [Sep 09] Escaping the "Graveyard of Empires": A Strategy to Exit Afghanistan
  Malou Innocent and Ted Galen Carpenter. CATO Institute
• [Sep 09] Afghanistan: Thinking Through the Basics
  Ronald E. Neumann. Stanley Foundation
• [Sep 09] Leaving the Civilians Behind: The 'Soldier-Diplomat' in Afghanistan and Iraq
  Edward Burke. Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior
• [Sep 09] Securing Helmand: Understanding and Responding to the Enemy
  Jeffrey A. Dressler. Institute for the Study of War
• [Sep 09] The Public Cost of Private Security in Afghanistan
  Jake Sherman and Victoria DiDomenico. Center on International Cooperation, New York University
• [28 Aug 09] Resourcing for Defeat: Critical Failures in Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Resourcing the Afghan and Iraq Wars
  Erin K. Fitzgerald and Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [20 Aug 09] Pakistan's Stake in the Afghan Election
  Daniel Markey. Council on Foreign Relations
• [17 Aug 09] Obama's War
  Jeffrey D. McCausland. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
• [17 Aug 09] Afghanistan: Stability on the Cheap?
  Raj Shukla. Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses
• [17 Aug 09] Pakistani, Afghan, and Iranian Factors of Influence on the Central Asian Region
  Sergey Luzianin. Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
• [6 Aug 09] Resourcing for Defeat: Critical Failures in Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Resourcing the Afghan and Iraq Wars
  Erin K. Fitzgerald and Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [Aug 09] The 800-Pound Gorilla: The Interrelationship of Culture, Economics, and Security in Afghanistan
  Bradley Boetig. Small Wars Journal
• [Aug 09] Going Tribal: Enlisting Afghanistan's Tribes
  Dan Green. Small Wars Journal
• [Aug 09] Inception and Early Evolution of a Partnership Doctrine: Building Afghan Army Capacity while Fighting a Counterinsurgency
  Edward C. Ledford. Small Wars Journal
• [Aug 09] Afghanistan's Police: The Weak Link in Security Sector Reform
  Robert M. Perito. United States Institute of Peace
• [Aug 09] Impact of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on the US Military's Plans, Programs and Budgets
  Todd Harrison. Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
• [July/Aug 09] Tactical Leader Lessons Learned in Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom VIII
  COL William B. Ostlund, USA. Military Review
• [July/Aug 09] Exploiting Insurgent Violence in Afghanistan
  LT. COL Thomas Brouns, USA. Military Review
• [July/Aug 09] Afghanistan's Nangarhar Inc: A Model for Interagency Success
  MAJ David K. Spencer, USA. Military Review
• [July/Aug 09] Rethinking IED Strategies: From Iraq to Afghanistan
  CMDR John Moulton, USN. Military Review
• [30 July 09] The Future of Afghanistan and Pakistan: The Development Challenge
  Remarks by Douglas Alexander, Secretary of State for International Development, United Kingdom, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [27 July 09] Afghan National Security Forces: Shaping the Path to Victory
  Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [22 July 09] The Afghanistan Campaign: Can We Win?
  Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [21 July 09] Global Security: Afghanistan and Pakistan
  United Kingdom House of Commons, Foreign Affairs Committee
• [15 July 09] Afghanistan: When the War is Unwinnable
  Greg Mills. S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• [9 July 09] Can Afghanistan's New "Guardian" Militia Restore Security in the Provinces?
  Wahidullah Mohammad. Jamestown Foundation
• [2 July 09] Troop Levels in the Afghan and Iraq Wars, FY2001-FY2012: Cost and Other Potential Issues
  Amy Belasco. Congressional Research Service
• [July 09] Kunar and Nuristan: Rethinking U.S. Counterinsurgency Operations
  Michael Moore and James Fussell. Institute for the Study of War
• [July 09] The Other Side: Dimensions of the Afghan Insurgency: Causes, Actors and Approaches to 'Talks'
  Thomas Ruttig. Afghanistan Analysts Network
• [16 June 09] Policing in Conflict States - Lessons from Afghanistan
  Speech by Nick Grono, Deputy President of the International Crisis Group, to the International Policy Commissioners' conference, in The Hague
• [8 June 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan: A Status Report
  Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
• [5 June 09] Harnessing Iran's Role in Afghanistan
  George Gavrilis. Council on Foreign Relations
• [June 09] Ineffective, Unprofessional, and Corrupt: The Afghan National Police Challenge
  Andrew Legon. Foreign Policy Research Institute
• [June 09] Triage: The Next Twelve Months in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Andrew M. Exum, et al. Center for a New American Security
• [Summer 09] Afghanistan: The Path to Victory
  Joseph J. Collins. Joint Force Quarterly
• [18 May 09] Military Operations: Actions Needed to Improve Oversight and Interagency Coordination for the Commander's Emergency Response Program in Afghanistan
  Government Accountability Office
• [11 May 09] Winning the Information War in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Greg Bruno. Council on Foreign Relations
• [8 May 09] Afghanistan: Stocktaking, May 2009
  Karl Habo and Klas Marklund. Institute for Security and Development Policy
• [4 May 09] Afghanistan - New Approaches towards Stabilisation
  Luis Peral. European Union Institute for Security Studies
• [May 09] Confronting Child Labour in Afghanistan
  Amanda Sim. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [May 09] Well-Being and Public Attitudes in Afghanistan: Some Insights from the Economics of Happiness
  Carol Graham and Soumya Chattopadhyay. Brookings Institution
• [May 09] The Long March: Building an Afghan National Army
  Obaid Younossi, et al. RAND Corporation
• [May 09] Winning in Afghanistan: Creating Effective Afghan Security Forces
  Anthony H. Cordesman, Adam Mausner, and David Kasten. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [22 April 09] Interactive Map: Europe's Role in Afghanistan
  Natalie Ondiak. Center for American Progress
• [21 April 09] Symposium on Afghanistan, Pakistan and U.S. National Security
  Council on Foreign Relations
  • Session I - The Current State of Play
  • Session II - Options and Prescriptions for U.S. Policy
  • Session III
• [21 April 09] Afghanistan: Key Issues for Congressional Oversight
  Government Accountability Office
  • See Also: Afghanistan: U.S.-and Internationally-Funded Roads (GAO-09-626SP), an E-supplement to GAO-09-473SP
• [16 April 09] Afghanistan's National Security Forces
  Greg Bruno. Council on Foreign Relations
• [16 April 09] Afghan Defense Chief Unhappy with Obama Plan
  Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, Minister of Defense, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Council on Foreign Relations
• [14 April 09] A Historical Case Study of U.S. Strategy Towards Afghanistan
  Mark A. Burrough. U.S. Army War College
• [3 April 09] Caught in the Conflict: Civilians and the International Security Strategy in Afghanistan
  Matt Waldman. Oxfam International, et al.
• [3 April 09] Uncertainty about New U.S. Policy Toward Pakistan, Afghanistan
  Anthony Cordesman. Council on Foreign Relations
• [April 09] Indian Involvement in Afghanistan: Stepping Stone or Stumbling Block to Regional Hegemony?
  Melanie Hanif. German Institute of Global and Area Studies
• [April 09] Land Conflict in Afghanistan: Building Capacity to Address Vulnerability
  Colin Deschamps and Alan Roe. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [April 09] From AfPak to PakAf: A Response to the New U.S. Strategy for South Asia
  Daniel Markey.  Council on Foreign Relations
  NOTE: Link to the full-text is available above the overview
• [April 09] A Ten-Year Framework for Afghanistan: Executing the Obama Plan...And Beyond
  Ashraf Ghani. Atlantic Council of the United States
• [April 09] Policymaking in Agriculture and Rural Development in Afghanistan
  Adam Pain and Sayed Mohammad Shah. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [April 09] Back From the Brink? A Strategy for Stabilizing Afghanistan-Pakistan
  Asia Society
• [April 09] Toward Reconciliation in Afghanistan
  Michael O'Hanlon. Washington Quarterly
• [30 March 09] Iran and the Future of Afghanistan
  Greg Bruno and Lionel Beehner. Council on Foreign Relations
• [25 March 09] United States Military Casualty Statistics: Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
  Hannah Fischer.  Congressional Research Service
• [23 March 09] Obama's Afghanistan Policy: Q&A Transcript
  Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [17 March 09] Global War on Terrorism: DOD Needs to More Accurately Capture and Report the Costs of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom
  Government Accountability Office
• [13 March 09] Afghanistan: New U.S. Administration, New Directions
  International Crisis Group
• [11 March 09] Winning in Afghanistan: Creating Effective Afghan Security Forces
  Anthony H. Cordesman, David Kasten, and Adam Mausner. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [9 March 09] Afghanistan Security: U.S. Programs to Further Reform Ministry of Interior and National Police Challenged by Lack of Military Personnel and Afghan Cooperation
  Government Accountability Office
• [March 09] Afghanistan: Evolving U.S. Strategy
  Noor ul Haq and Yasir Imtiaz, eds. Islamabad Policy Research Institute
• [March 09] Balancing Kinetic Effects of Airpower with Counterinsurgency Objectives in Afghanistan
  Lt Col Eugene L. McFeely, USAF. U.S. Army War College
• [March 09] Afghanistan: Now You See Me?
  Nicholas Kitchen, ed. London School of Economics and Political Science, IDEAS - Diplomacy and Strategy @ LSE
• [March 09] Shaping Europe's Afghan Surge
  Daniel Korski. European Council on Foreign Relations
• [March 09] Sustainable Security in Afghanistan: Creating an Effective and Responsible Strategy for the Forgotten Front
  Lawrence Korb, Caroline Wadhams, Colin Cookman, and Sean Duggan. Center for American Progress
• [March 09] Swords and Ploughshares: Sustainable Security in Afghanistan Requires Sweeping U.S. Policy Overhaul
  Reuben E. Brigety II. Center for American Progress
• [March 09] Afghanistan: Changing the Frame, Changing the Game
  Yll Bajraktari and Peter Roady. Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• [Spring 09] Winning in Afghanistan
  Ali A. Jalali. Parameters
• [19 Feb 09] Defense Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan: Issues and Options for Congress
  Valerie Bailey Grasso. Congressional Research Service
• [18 Feb 09] The U.S. and Afghan Tragedy
  Khushal Arsala and Stephen Zunes. Foreign Policy in Focus
• [11 Feb 09] Beyond Manas: Russia's Game in Afghanistan
  Stephen Blank. Central-Asia Caucus Institute
• [9 Feb 09] Planning Victory in Afghanistan
  Frederick W. Kagan. American Enterprise Institute
• [Feb 09] Airpower in Afghanistan: How a Faraway War is Remaking the Air Force
  Rebecca Grant. Mitchell Institute for Airpower Studies, Air Force Association
• [Feb 09] How is Afghanistan Different from Al Anbar?
  Carter Malkasian and Jerry Meyerle. Center for Naval Analysis
• [Feb 09] Afghanistan and Pakistan On the Brink: Framing U.S. Policy Options
  Frederick Barton, et al. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [Jan/Feb 09] Counterinsurgency Field Manual: Afghanistan Edition
  Nathaniel C. Fick and John A. Nagl. Foreign Policy
• [Jan/Feb 09] Sentinels of Afghan Democracy: The Afghan National Army
  Samuel Chan.  Military Review
• [30 Jan 09] Afghanistan Security: Lack of Systematic Tracking Raises Significant Accountability Concerns about Weapons Provided to Afghan National Security Forces
  Government Accountability Office
• [23 Jan 09] Securing Afghanistan: Getting on Track
  C. Christine Fair and Seth G. Jones. United States Institute of Peace
• [8 Jan 09] The Way Forward in Afghanistan
  Transcript from the United States Institute of Peace event, "Passing the Baton: Foreign Policy Challenges and Opportunities Facing the New Administration"
• [Jan 09] Pakistan and Afghanistan: Worst-case Scenarios Are Not Unlikely
  Laurent Murawiec. Hudson Institute
• [Jan 09] Focus and Exit: An Alternative Strategy for the Afghan War
  Gilles Dorronsoro. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• [Jan 09] Engaging Europe on Afghanistan
  John K. Glenn  and Oliver Mains. German Marshall Fund of the United States
• [Jan 09] Tell Me Why We're There? U.S. Interests and Objectives in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Nathaniel Fick, John Nagl, and Vikram Singh. Center for a New American Security
• [Jan 09] The Future of Afghanistan
  J. Alexander Thier, ed. United States Institute of Peace
• [Jan 09] Transition Strategy: Regaining the Initiative
  Joseph J. Collins. Armed Forces Journal
• [Winter 09] Irregular Warfare Lessons Learned: Reforming the Afghan National Police
  Lewis G. Irwin. Joint Force Quarterly
• [09] The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: A Partner for Stabilising Afghanistan?
  Matthew Hall. Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies, Australian Defence College
• [09] Enemies, Irregular Adversaries, Spoilers, Non-compliant Actors: How the Definition of Actors Influences Afghanistan Strategies
  Grant Dansie. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
• [09] U.S. Policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Malou Innocent. Cato Handbook for Policymakers - Cato Institute
• [Winter 08/09] Reconsidering Afghanistan: Time for an "Azimuth Check"
  Richard de Villafranca. Parameters
• [18 Dec 08] Memo to the President: Expand the Agenda in Pakistan and Afghanistan
  Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
• [18 Dec 08] Policing in Afghanistan: Still Searching for a Strategy
  International Crisis Group
• [Dec 08] Afghanistan: Japan's Experiences Revisited
  Afghanistan Study Group Japan and the Japan Institute of International Affairs
• [Dec 08] Post-September 11 Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: Prospects for Counter-insurgency Cooperation
  Abdulkader H. Sinno and Rasul Bakhsh Rais. National Bureau of Asian Research
• [Dec 08] Microcredit, Informal Credit and Rural Livelihoods: A Village Case Study in Balkh Province
  Erna Anderson and Amanda Sim. Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [Nov/Dec 08] Breaking the Impasse in Afghanistan: Problems with Neighbors, Brothers, and Guests
  Samuel Chan. China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly
• [Nov/Dec 08] From Great Game to Grand Bargain: Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Barnett R. Rubin and Ahmed Rashid. Foreign Affairs
• [17-18 Nov 08] From Coherent Policy to Coordinated Practice: Are We Delivering Coherently in Afghanistan?
  Helge Lurås, Niels Nagelhus Schia, Stina Torjesen, and Ståle Ulriksen. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
• [17 Nov 08] A Tribal Strategy for Afghanistan
  Greg Bruno. Council on Foreign Relations
• [13 Nov 08] Bureaucracies at War: Organizing for Strategic Success in Afghanistan
  LTC Donald C. Bolduc, USA. U.S. Army War College
• [Nov 08] How Should the U.S. Execute a Surge in Afghanistan?
  Robert Downey, Lee Grubbs, Brian Malloy, and Craig Wonson. Small Wars Journal
• [Nov 08] Unity of Command in Afghanistan: A Forsaken Principle of War
  Ian Hope. Strategic Studies Institute
• [23 Oct 08] India-Afghanistan Relations
  Jayshree Bajoria. Council on Foreign Relations
• [23 Oct 08] Prospects in Afghanistan 'Not Looking Good'
  John Burns. Council on Foreign Relations
• [17 Oct 08] Confronting Two Key Challenges in Afghanistan
  Karin von Hippel. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [9 Oct 08] Winning the War in Aghanistan: The Realities of 2009
  Anthony Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [1 Oct 08] Contingency Contracting: DOD, State, and USAID Contracts and Contractor Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan
  Government Accountability Office
• [Oct 08] The U.S. and Iran in Afghanistan: Policy Gone Awry
  Barnett R. Rubin and Sara Batmanglich. MIT Center for International Studies
• [Oct 08] Afghanistan in 2008: A Survey of the Afghan People
  The Asia Foundation
• [9 Sep 08] Follow the Money: Why the U.S. is Losing the War in Afghanistan
  Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic & International Studies
• [Sep 08] Programming Development Funds to Support a Counterinsurgency - Nangarhar, Afghanistan, 2006
  Michelle Parker. Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
• [Sep 08] Thwarting Afghanistan's Insurgency: A Pragmatic Approach toward Peace and Reconciliation
  Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai. United States Institute of Peace
• [Fall 08] Interview with Said T. Jawad, Afghanistan's Ambassador to the US: "Where the Road Ends the Taliban Begins"
  Michael Mylrea. al Nakhlah
• [Fall 08] Afghanistan: Back to Basics
  James S. Robbins. Journal of International Security Affairs
• [6 Aug 08] Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan: U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges This Fall and Beyond
  Transcript of a Brookings Institution event
• [Aug 08] Future U.S. Security Relationships with Iraq and Afghanistan: U.S. Air Force Roles
  David E. Thaler, et al. RAND Corporation
• [28 July 08] Analyzing the Afghan-Pakistan War
  Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [10 July 08] Iraq, Afghanistan and Beyond: Military Operations in the 21st Century
  Remarks by Des Browne, Secretary of State for Defense, United Kingdom, at the Brookings Institution
• [July 08] Killing Friends, Making Enemies: The Impact and Avoidance of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
  J. Alexander Thier and Azita Ranjbar. United States Institute of Peace
• [25 June 08] Recent Developments Fail to Change Afghan War Fundamentals
  Richard Weitz. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
• [18 June 08] Afghanistan Security: Further Congressional Action May be Needed to Ensure Completion of a Detailed Plan to Develop and Sustain Capable Afghan National Security Forces
  Government Accountability Office
• [June 08] Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan
  Seth G. Jones. RAND Corporation
• [30 May 08] Afghan-Turkmen Relations Improve
  John C. K. Daly. Jamestown Foundation
• [21 May 08] Dilemmas of Democracy: Work in Progress in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Remarks by David Miliband, U.K. Foreign Secretary, at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event
• [14 May 08] The Emerging China-Afghanistan Relationship
  Nicklas Norling. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
• [13 May 08] Afghanistan in Chinese Strategy Toward South and Central Asia
  Tariq Mahmud Ashraf. Jamestown Foundation
• [9 May 08] U.S. Forces in Afghanistan
  JoAnne O'Bryant and Michael Waterhouse.  Congressional Research Service
• [1 May 08] Afghanistan's National Army: The Ambiguous Prospects of Afghanization
  Antonio Giustozzi. Jamestown Foundation
• [17 April 08] Afghanistan's Vietnam Portent
  Paul Rogers.  openDemocracy
• [17 April 08] The War in Afghanistan: More Help Needed
  James Phillips and Lisa Curtis.  Heritage Foundation
• [17 April 08] Dostum: Afghanistan’s Embattled Warlord
  Brian Glyn Williams. Jamestown Foundation
• [3 April 08] India and Pakistan in Afghanistan: Hostile Sports
  Raja Karthikeya Gundu and Teresita C. Schaffer. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [March 08] From "Refugee Warriors" to "Returnee Warriors": Militant Homecoming in Afghanistan and Beyond
  Kristian Berg Harpviken. Center for Global Studies, George Mason University
• [March 08] Afghanistan and Regional Instability: A Risk Assessment
  Heidi Kjærnet and Stina Torjesen. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
• [Spring 08] No Sign Until the Burst of Fire: Understanding the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier
  Thomas H. Johnson and M. Chris Mason. International Security
• [Spring 08] The Rise of Afghanistan's Insurgency: State Failure and Jihad
  Seth G. Jones. International Security
• [14 Feb 08] Detention in Afghanistan: The Need for an Integrated Plan
  Ashley Deeks. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [6 Feb 08] Afghanistan:  The Need for International Resolve
  International Crisis Group
• [Feb 08] US Policy in Afghanistan: SENLIS Council Recommendations
  Senlis Council
• [Feb 08] Afghanistan - Decision Point 2008
  Senlis Council
• [18 Jan 08] Afghanistan's Situation and its Impact in the Region and the World
  Transcript of a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace event
• [16 Jan 08] Open Letter on Afghanistan to the House Committee on Armed Services
  Anthony H. Cordesman.  Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [Jan 08] Winning the Invisible War: An Agricultural Pilot Plan for Afghanistan
  Edward Borcherdt, Austin Carson, Frank Kennefick, James Moseley, William Taylor, Harlan Ullman, and Larry Wentz.  Center for Technology and National Security Policy
• [Jan 08] Afghanistan Study Group Report: Revitalizing our Efforts Rethinking our Strategies
  General James L. Jones, USMC, ret., and Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering.  Center for the Study of the Presidency
• [Jan 08] Saving Afghanistan: An Appeal and Plan for Urgent Action
  Atlantic Council of the United States
• [08] COIN Revisited: Lessons of the Classical Literature on Counterinsurgency and its Applicability to the Afghan Hybrid Insurgency
  Harald Håvoll. Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
• [08] Afghanistan: State and Society, Great Power Politics, and the Way Ahead - Findings from an International Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007
  Cheryl Benard, Ole Kværnø, Peter Dahl Thruelsen, and Kristen Cordell, eds. RAND Corporation
• [Winter 07/08] Afghanistan: Regaining Momentum
  Ali A. Jalali. Parameters
• [10 Dec 07] The State of the Afghan Insurgency
  Seth G. Jones.  RAND Corporation
• [4 Dec 07] The Afghan-Pakistan War: A Status Report
  Anthony H. Cordesman.  Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [3 Dec 07] Assessing the Afghan-Pakistani Conflict
  Anthony H. Cordesman.  Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [8 Nov 07] Internal Displacement in Afghanistan
  Khalid Koser.  Brookings Institution
• [Nov 07] Stumbling into Chaos: Afghanistan on the Brink
  Senlis Council
• [Nov 07] Still on the Way to Afghanistan? Germany and its Forces in the Hindu Kush
  Sebastian Merz.  Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
• [Nov 07] The Forgotten Front
  Caroline P. Wadhams and Lawrence J. Korb.  Center for American Progress
• [Nov 07] Preliminary Mineral Resource Assessment of Selected Mineral Deposit Types in Afghanistan
  U.S. Geological Survey
• [15 Oct 07] Revitalizing U.S. Efforts in Afghanistan
  Lisa Curtis and James Phillips.  Heritage Foundation
• [5 Oct 07] The Forgotten Mission in Afghanistan Can Succeed.  Here's How
  Caroline Wadhams and Lawrence J. Korb.  Center for American Progress
• [Oct 07] Coalition Warfare in Afghanistan: Burden-sharing or Disunity?
  Timo Noetzel and Sibylle Scheipers.  Chatham House
• [Sep/Oct 07] Fighting "The Other War:" Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan, 2003-2005
  Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, USA Ret.  Military Review
• [Sep 07] Afghanistan in 2007: A Survey of the Afghan People
  The Asia Foundation
• [Sep 07] Enabling or Disabling? The Operating Environment for Small and Medium Enterprises in Rural Afghanistan
  Saeed Parto, Anna Paterson and Asif Karimi.  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [30 Aug 07] Reforming Afghanistan's Police
  International Crisis Group
• [28 Aug 07] Improvised Explosive Devices in Iraq and Afghanistan: Effects and Countermeasures
  Clay Wilson.  Congressional Research Service
• [31 July 07] Estimated Costs of U.S. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Other Activities Related to the War on Terrorism
  Congressional Budget Office
• [July 07] Cops or Robbers? The Struggle to Reform the Afghan National Police
  Andrew Wilder.  Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
• [July 07] Shaping Commitment: Resolving Canada's Strategy Gap in Afghanistan and Beyond
  D. Craig Hilton.  Strategic Studies Institute
• [1 June 07] Sentinels of Afghan Democracy: The Afghan National Army
  Samuel Chan. S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• [Summer 07] Buying Time in Afghanistan
  Carl Robichaud.  World Policy Journal
• [30 May 07] The Afghanistan-Russia Rapprochement and its Geopolitical Implications
  Dmitry Shlapentokh. Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
• [23 May 07] Military Operations: The Department of Defense's Use of Solatia and Condolence Payments in Iraq and Afghanistan
  Government Accountability Office
• [18 May 07] The Uncertain "Metrics" of Afghanistan (and Iraq)
  Anthony Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [2 May 07] U.S. Strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan: Beyond Partisan Failure and Dishonesty
  Anthony H. Cordesman. Center for Strategic and International Studies
• [17 April 07] Afghanistan and Iraq: Two Sunni War Theaters Evolving into One?
  Michael Scheuer. Jamestown Foundation
• [2 April 07] A Working Plan: Hope Isn't the Only Strategy for Afghanistan
  Christopher Griffin. American Enterprise Institute
• [April 07] The Human Cost: The Consequences of Insurgent Attacks in Afghanistan
  Human Rights Watch
• [8 March 07] Ending Afghanistan's Civil War
  James Dobbins. RAND Corporation
• [6 March 07] Afghanistan: Forgetting the Lessons of History
  Michael Scheuer. Jamestown Foundation
• [March 07]  On a Knife Edge: Rapid Assessment Field Survey Southern and Eastern Afghanistan
  Senlis Council
• [March 07] Canada in Afghanistan: Is it Working?
  Gordon Smith.  Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute
• [March 07] Warlordism in Comparative Perspective
  Kimberly Marten. International Security
• [21 Feb 07] Iranian Involvement in Afghanistan
  Muhammad Tahir. Jamestown Foundation
• [5 Feb 07] Budgeting for Empire: The Effect of Iraq and Afghanistan on Military Forces, Budgets, and Plans
  David Isenberg. Independent Institute
• [Feb 07] Pak-Afghan Relations 2005 - 2007
  Noor Ul-Haq. Islamabad Policy Research Institute
• [30 Jan 07] Ending Afghanistan's Civil War
  James Dobbins. RAND Corporation
• [Jan 07] Securing Tyrants or Fostering Reform?  U.S. Internal Security Assistance to Repressive and Transitioning Regimes
  Seth G. Jones, Olga Oliker, Peter Chalk, C. Christine Fair, Rollie Lal and James Dobbins. RAND Corporation

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• [current] Afgha.com
  Links to recent news stories on Afghanistan
• [current] Afghan News Channel
• [current] Afghan News from Guardian Unlimited
• [current] Afghanistan News.net
• [current] AfghanOnline Press
• [current] Yahoo News Search - Afghanistan
• [current] Google News Search - Afghanistan

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Web Gateways

• [current] Afghanistan Watch
  The Century Foundation
• [current] International Affairs: Afghanistan
  The Century Foundation
• [current] Middle East Network Information Center
  The Afghanistan page of MENIC (Middle East Network Information Center) gathers Web resources on Afghani news and current events, government and politics, history and archaeology, arts and culture, business and economy, the work of relief organizations in Afghanistan, and general information about the country.  
• [current] War Report: Afghan Aftermath
  Articles, documents and analyses from the Project on Defense Alternatives website
• [current] Afghanistan: The Latest
  ReliefWeb website
• [current] Yahoo Country Directory - Afghanistan
• [n.d.] Understanding Afghanistan: Land in Crisis
  National Geographic website
  Current news, maps, recent photographs, and lesson plans, including an extensive bibliography of the magazine's maps and articles (some available online) about Afghanistan, terrorist attacks, Islam, rescue work, and other topics. There is also an archived webcast of "National Geographic Explores a Changing World," a film screening and panel discussion on the Middle East and Afghanistan after the events of 9/11, accompanied by a discussion forum.

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