OEF - Afghanistan [Archive] - Small Wars Council

Why is there a war in Afghanistan? Explained in four minutes on YouTube (0 replies)
New literature on Afghanistan... (7 replies)
Pech River Boys documentary (0 replies)
The best film from the current conflicts (0 replies)
ISIS / IS in Afghanistan (a small collection) (2 replies)
OEF: a lingering Afghan small war for the West (catch all) (38 replies)
ANSF performance 2015 onwards (52 replies)
Afghanistan 2015 onwards: Moderator's Notice (3 replies)
Afghanistan, its neighbours and non-NATO nations (25 replies)
Easy to conquer, nightmare to stay in (0 replies)
Before we go THINK a lot more! (4 replies)
Wardak Province Mystery (2 replies)
Afghan Elections: Game changer or no big deal? (0 replies)
Stand by Royal Marine 'A' now (1 replies)
Afghans confidence in the future: who is leaving? (3 replies)
Talking to or with the Taliban (9 replies)
Strategy in Afghanistan: could the US have done better? (13 replies)
Winston Churchill on Afghanistan (0 replies)
What will our expedition to Afghanistan teach us? (87 replies)
SOFA in Afghanistan? (26 replies)
Karzai says Afghanistan to be safer once foreign troops leave (3 replies)
What 2012 has meant for Afghanistan (1 replies)
Patronage and the war in Afghanistan (6 replies)
Afghan Exit:why, how and more in country and beyond (61 replies)
China's role in Afghanistan (7 replies)
The best thing we can do is leave (1 replies)
Taliban attack inside Camp Bastion (46 replies)
How to beat the Taliban in Afghanistan / Pakistan (and win the war on terror) (39 replies)
The coming (postponed) Afghan civil war (8 replies)
Welcome to my world (15 replies)
So I guess it's all our fault... (0 replies)
Taliban Death Porn (7 replies)
2005 and 2012 Strategic Partnerships (0 replies)
OEF has it been worth the human cost? (24 replies)
OP Shal (1 replies)
Huge Attack Planned for Kabul (6 replies)
Nine children among 16 dead after US serviceman attacks villagers (155 replies)
Worth reading... (2 replies)
What the Quran burnings tell us (21 replies)
Vanguard: Small Unit Actions in Afghanistan (0 replies)
Could the CAP concept work in Afghanistan? (13 replies)
In Afghan War, Officer Becomes a Whistle-Blower (31 replies)
AQ follows the Iraq model in Afghanistan? (0 replies)
Gloomy US intelligence assessment coming or Let's hear from the spies (68 replies)
Bamiyan Provice, Afghanistan: something goes right (4 replies)
Plowing Over the Taliban (42 replies)
Afghan public opinion poll (0 replies)
Green on Blue: causes and responses (merged thread) (292 replies)
Absurd expectations... (0 replies)
Leave or Stay (49 replies)
The Afghan War after ten years (9 replies)
Ten myths about Afghanistan (10 replies)
Chopper down (3 replies)
ISAF is the enemy, so says ANSF? (1 replies)
Symmetrical Defense Strategies? (5 replies)
Why are we still leading missions, instead of supporting Afghans conduct them? (86 replies)
Cavguy heads to Afghanistan (15 replies)
Head for the hills. (2 replies)
Is It Time to Get Out of Afghanistan? (161 replies)
US Declaration of Independence and the current situation in Afghanistan (16 replies)
Bing West's "The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy and the way out of Afghanistan" NYT Review (1 replies)
Tartan Taleban (1 replies)
An Open Letter to President Obama (28 replies)
Incessant Opportunities: a war blog (0 replies)
Gurkha beheads Taliban... (22 replies)
Good Friday: A Story of Heroism in Afghanistan (0 replies)
I'm now world famous in Warsaw, Poland! (0 replies)
Rethink Afghanistan (1 replies)
Best Afghanistan Documentaries? (5 replies)
Anthony A. Shaffer's “Operation Dark Heart” (6 replies)
IISS recommends precision and adaptability (1 replies)
Afghan Patriots - Living with the Taliban (Video) (12 replies)
Interview, perhaps of interest (1 replies)
Why The US Is In Afghanistan? (8 replies)
Rory Stewart MP on Afghanistan (10 replies)
The war that I know- 150 Taliban KIA (13 replies)
Withdrawal deadlines discussion (6 replies)
Moving the Rhod. Fire Force concept to Afghanistan? (196 replies)
Muhammad Junaid On The Jirga (6 replies)
Did we get on the wrong road from the outset? (7 replies)
Local Defence in Afghanistan (30 replies)
The Modern US Army Officer (2 replies)
Haqqani Network (merged thread) (17 replies)
Afghan Governance Report (1 replies)
Mullah Omar Captured? A discussion (11 replies)
Behind the enemy lines (3 replies)
US forces fight Taliban with heavy metal (19 replies)
The future with Karzai: a debate (merged thread with new title) (62 replies)
Stepping back from the Garrison mentality (8 replies)
WHAM in Afghanistan: a report on development aid in COIN ops (13 replies)
Friedman Nails It. (1 replies)
Afghanistan: Sealing the deal in the "build" phase? (29 replies)
Man Versus Afghanistan By Robert D. Kaplan (1 replies)
The Political Economy of Customary Village Organizations in Rural Afghanistan (15 replies)
A Final Solution to the Afghan question (2 replies)
Ending the Agony: Seven Moves to Stabilize Afghanistan (7 replies)
Vietnam 1963 and Afghanistan 2010 (9 replies)
Afghanistan indicators (95 replies)
Konduz Airstrike Aftermath (3 replies)
Mumbai style attack in kabul.. (22 replies)
Zbigniew Brzezinski Interview On Afghanistan (1 replies)
OP Rock, Patrol Base Hassan Abad (1 replies)
Sanctuary (or perhaps just area) denial operations at the Afghanistan village level (110 replies)
Show of f?rce (8 replies)
"On War #325: How the Taliban Take a Village (Lind/Sexton)" (21 replies)
Nightwatch Afghanistan Analysis (0 replies)
Control comes before Collaboration (14 replies)
What If We Fail in Afghanistan? (33 replies)
Afghan politics (catch all, so includes talking to the Taliban) (6 replies)
The value of microcredit (0 replies)
Some Good News from Oruzgan -- Sabi found (0 replies)
Did we make the right decision in Nuristan? (11 replies)
Afghan Population (10 replies)
First U.S. Official Resigns Over Afghan War (73 replies)
US 101st Airborne lessons (2 replies)
Daniel Ellsberg:On Vietnam And Afghanistan (0 replies)
New essay: “The Shadow COA or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love NSC-68" (29 replies)
Was it a mistake not to recreate Afghanistan as a constitutional monarchy? (12 replies)
CNAS policy brief (22 replies)
Another Plan by Col. Macgregor (14 replies)
"Go Deep" - another plan for Afghanistan (9 replies)
Mullah Omar: Taliban Rules and Regulations (66 replies)
The Green Beret System For Winning (30 replies)
There are now 82 al Qaeda in Afghanistan (4 replies)
Three cheers for rephrasing... (3 replies)
Gen Jones on Face the Nation, 4 Oct (12 replies)
Frontline in Afghanistan (65 replies)
negotiating with insurgents? (5 replies)
AP: General calls for more Afghanistan troops (82 replies)
Reflections on the past (assessment of ISAF etc up to 2015) (17 replies)
"We're pinned down": 4 Marines die in Afghan ambush (56 replies)
Two frontline reports (31 replies)
Can a theater commander ever say that his war is not "winnable"? (38 replies)
Quitting Afghanistan? (12 replies)
Afghanistan and U.S. Interests: Kotkin vs Nagl (60 replies)
Exum on NPR (21 replies)
War of Choice? (52 replies)
Afghanistan Election Thread (3 replies)
Bespoke COIN Planning Required? (1 replies)
Enemies, Irregular Adversaries, Spoilers, Non-compliant Actors-Definition & Influence (0 replies)
Reading on COIN in Afghanistan: a place to start (13 replies)
When Afghans trust us (7 replies)
Two competing views on the war in Afghanistan (6 replies)
Biddle on Afghanistan (17 replies)
The missed factor? Water in Afghanistan (7 replies)
A war that cannot be won or lost (9 replies)
Australians in Afghanistan (28 replies)
Rule of Law in Afghanistan (2 replies)
Training for Afghanistan (38 replies)
US Soldier captured in Afghanistan (72 replies)
Article in German journal "Stern" (45 replies)
Step 1: Decentralize Afghanistan (15 replies)
Afghanistan ROE Change (180 replies)
The Enemy As A System (0 replies)
This is a dumb idea (27 replies)
Ummm Uniform Changes (35 replies)
Is it time for psuedo operations in A-Stan?... (22 replies)
McKiernan replaced (58 replies)
Nagl/Ficks- COIN Field Manual: Afghan Edition (0 replies)
How Pakistan (and Afghanistan) can fix itself (5 replies)
Winning the War in Afghanistan (1119 replies)
Northern Afghanistan: BBC report (0 replies)
Afghan campaign guide (5 replies)
Is the United States learning from prior attempts at nation-building? (14 replies)
Some added news on the Training and Mentoring mission (13 replies)
women's rights and international support for the Afghan mission (8 replies)
New US Policy on war in Af/Pak (6 replies)
Afghanistan: The Dysfunctional War (2 replies)
Mack's Small Wars and Afghanistan (1 replies)
OSINT Assessment of the Afghan War (16 replies)
Ralph Peter's Best to Worst COAs for Afghanistan (34 replies)
Afghanistan: Japan's Experiences Revisited (1 replies)
Crunch Time in Afghanistan-Pakistan (12 replies)
Getting locals to take an ownership interest in the Afghan government (9 replies)
Afghan story expects re they most take some ownership of their government (0 replies)
Afghanistan 2008: A Survey of the Afghan People (0 replies)
This would be a funny article if (11 replies)
A War's Impossible Mission (25 replies)
Agricultural Component of the Afghanistan Surge? (72 replies)
John Wayne Lives (6 replies)
Excellent Afghan ETT Blog (1 replies)
Afghanistan: What's Our Definition of Victory? (69 replies)
Chlid Sex Abuse by AFG Security Forces? (33 replies)
NATO to "Merge" Public Affairs, Info Ops, Psy Ops Offices in AFG? (20 replies)
J'aime les soldats Americains (6 replies)
ISAF Campaign Plan Summary (41 replies)
Sarah Chayes on Afghanistan (13 replies)
Col. Agoglia blogger roundtable (0 replies)
How Should the U.S. Execute a Surge in Afghanistan? (43 replies)
Getting the Basics Right in Afghanistan (14 replies)
Unity of Command in Afghanistan: A Forsaken Principle of War (0 replies)
Possible Fixes for Afghanistan (0 replies)
Can we do something? Anything? (6 replies)
Lost in Translation (40 replies)
Afghanistan: What is it ?/ What is it not? (16 replies)
Provincial Reconstruction in Afghanistan (2 replies)
A suggestion for changing the course of the conflict on the Afghan/Pakistani frontier (17 replies)
Reconciliation and COIN in Afghanistan (236 replies)
The Good War? (0 replies)
Can the Anbar model work in Afghanistan? (38 replies)
What Is Our Strategic Endstate in Afghanistan? (50 replies)
The French in Afghanistan (31 replies)
TF Phoenix--AFG info (3 replies)
The Roads to Nowhere (13 replies)
Oruzgan Shadow Governor Bagged (0 replies)
After Action Report-General Barry R McCaffrey USA (Ret) Afgahanistan (31 replies)
Contested Nation Building (0 replies)
Afghanistan troop surge could backfire, experts warn (69 replies)
No Sign Until the Burst of Fire (1 replies)
Securing the Afghan border (merged thread) (42 replies)
Combat Outpost Penetrated in Afghanistan, 9 dead (147 replies)
Rural Fence Sitters in Afghanistan (13 replies)
Inside the Taliban jailbreak (14 replies)
OEF-Afghanistan Online (2 replies)
Russia Joins the War in Afghanistan (13 replies)
The Advisor Mission in Afghanistan (8 replies)
Report of the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence (3 replies)
Afghanistan: colonialism or counterinsurgency? (12 replies)
Disarmament and Demobilization in Afghanistan (0 replies)
Trying to get on the front foot - Taliban mistreatment claims (2 replies)
The USMC in Helmand (merged thread) (173 replies)
Whose side are the Afghans on? (1 replies)
Supplier Under Scrutiny on Aging Arms for Afghans (4 replies)
Prince Harry In Afghanistan (18 replies)
Korengal (19 replies)
Afghanistan's Political Parties and Where They Come From (1902-2006) (0 replies)
Afghanistan - Decision Point 2008 (8 replies)
Can tribes take on the Taleban? (3 replies)
Bid to Transform Afghan Madrassas (1 replies)
Afghan Refugees in Iran (1 replies)
Future COIN in Afghanistan (21 replies)
In COIN Class, Soldiers Think Like Taliban (1 replies)
A ‘Surge’ for Afghanistan. (32 replies)
Supply routes to Afghanistan (142 replies)
Afghanistan 2007 conference - Ottawa (2 replies)
Germans in Afghanistan (65 replies)
DoD Strategic Communication Plan for Afghanistan (51 replies)
SILENT SOLDIER - The Man behind the Afghan Jehad (on-line read) (1 replies)
Kandahar Province: catch all thread (87 replies)
How a ‘Good War’ in Afghanistan Went Bad (23 replies)
All that is old is new again..... (12 replies)
Where Less Is More (3 replies)
The Soviet experience in and leaving Afghanistan (43 replies)
Pashtun / Pashtunwali / Pashtunistan (catch all) (94 replies)
Economist comments on Afghanistan (14 replies)
The Indian role in Afghanistan (new title) (68 replies)
National Geographic Documentary on SF (2 replies)
F*ck. This. Place. (22 replies)
Punishment in Syachow (0 replies)
Taliban successes in the North (20 replies)