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

The David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History at the University of Arkansas has launched a project ...

Thanks to the National Archives and Records Administration, we can trace Afghan involvement in U.S. military operations back to the Civil War. Why China and Russia will not simply walk away from ...

While America’s longest war – the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan – ended when American forces hastily fled the country in August 2021, memories from two decades of bloody battles are still lodged ...

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

“…Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply. Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do and die…” — Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light ...

In 2022, after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban regained power, Afghans reported an average life satisfaction of 1.28 on a scale from 0 to 10—or from the worst possible life to ...

As senior leaders, one in Congress and the other previously in uniform, we both have witnessed the nobility and selflessness of those who have answered the call and served our nation in its time of ...

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