How Long Should Afghanistan Matter?Prakhar SharmaForeign Policy
“This is an absolutely tragic case and for too long we did not have enough helicopters in Afghanistan – that is a point I made over many years. “I think the situation is now a lot better. The number of helicopters and helicopter hours has increased specifically since the US marines arr...
The Banker I am planning to write a story set in late 1978. It is about the cold war. Today we know from foresight that thanks to the Brezhnev stagnation, the USSR was doomed to fall by the 70s and it was simply a question of how and when....
The Taliban’s capture of Kunduz is turning into the biggest disaster for the United States and NATO in the entire 14-year-long war for Afghanistan. Right now, the NATO force in the northern region is too small on its own to retake the city of 300,000, while itfailed to rescuedozens ...
What was the Six-Day War? Who won the Six-Day War? How did World War 2 end? How did World War I end? What countries were involved in the Six Day War? How was the conflict resolved in the Afghanistan war? How long did the Six Day War last? How did World War I start? Who sta...
Afghanistan ; in for ... How Long?Henry J Waters, III
The Taliban’s swift success has prompted questions over how the insurgent group was able to gain control so soon after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan – and, after almost 20 years of conflict in the US’ longest running war, what the Taliban want. Afghan security personnel take ...
The Vietnam War was a national trauma that fundamentally altered American culture—including motion pictures. In Hymns for the Fallen: Combat Movie Music and Sound after Vietnam, the author explores 35 Hollywood war movies, fromApocalypse NowtoAmerican Sniper, and describes how sound of all kinds...
After the interview was over, I thought that was all very interesting. How do you attack the United States from a mud hut in the middle of the night in Afghanistan? And the answer came the year later when they blew up two American embassies almost simultaneously, ...
Embassy in London, where he had sought refuge seven years earlier amid an investigation by Swedish authorities into claims of sexual misconduct that he has long denied and that was later dropped. The South American nation revoked the political asylum ...