The United States entered Afghanistan in 2001 with overwhelming advantages in military capability, technology, and resources. By every conventional measure, the Taliban was badly outmatched. Yet twenty years later, the Taliban had outlasted the world’s most formidable military and returned to power in Kabul.
Five years ago, on August 15, 2021, the Taliban entered Kabul – the capital city of Afghanistan. The withdrawal of U.S. forces and contractors severely reduced the Afghan military’s ability to supply, maintain, reinforce, and medically evacuate isolated units.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) published its 13th lessons learned report in November 2024, titled “Staffing the Mission: Lessons from the U.S. […]
The Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program requires regular reauthorization and additional visas from Congress. There will soon be a SIV application backlog that exceeds […]
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A recently published article in the January 2024 CTC Sentinel assesses the past few years of Taliban control of Afghanistan since August 2021. The Taliban’s […]
The United States Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) reported to Congress on the status of the Afghan Fund. The report was in response […]
By Liv Wittenberg. Though the Taliban’s current policy is to assert that homosexuality doesn’t exist in Afghan society, LGBTQ+ people have obviously always existed in […]
The office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy has published an online resource that might be of assistance for those involved in the […]
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has published an updated version of Afghanistan: Background and U.S. Policy. This report is a 21-page PDF that is dated […]
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