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Parent topics
- U.S. foreign policy [r]: The foreign relations and diplomacy of the United States since 1775. [e]
- Taliban [r]: Extremist political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the 1990s and has twice seized power in the country. [e]
- Taliban in Pakistan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Counterinsurgency [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9/11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
Subtopics
- Afghan Security Forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 2009 Afghanistan presidential election [r]: Add brief definition or description
Policymakers
- Karl Eikenberry [r]: U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan as of 29 April 2009, having retired as a lieutenant general, United States Army, and deputy head of the NATO Military Committee on the 28th [e]
- Stanley McChrystal [r]: General, United States Army; senior Western military officer in Afghanistan, commanding the International Security Assistance Force and United States Forces-Afghanistan; professional background in special operations including heading the Joint Special Operations Command and 75th Ranger Regiment; previously Military Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations [e]
- David McKiernan [r]: A U.S Army General who was relieved early of command of the International Security Assistance Force, NATO's headquarters in Afghanistan; he commanded the ground forces in the Iraq War and is an armored combat specialist, as opposed to his replacement, GEN Stanley McChrystal, a special operations officer [e]
- John Brennan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- E. Anthony Wayne [r]: Add brief definition or description
Analysts
- Chris Kolenda [r]: Add brief definition or description Director/coordinator, Strategic Assessment Group
- Daniel Pick [r]: Colonel, United States Army; a Military Intelligence officer and adviser to General Stanley McChrystal, senior U.S. and NATO military commander in the Afghanistan War (2001-2021); Foreign Area Officer for the Near East [e]
- Sarah Chayes [r]: Originally a historian, then a journalist who covered conflicts worldwide including the Afghanistan War (2001-2021), she left reporting to work on reconstruction in Afghanistan; she was on the Strategic Assessment Group advising the new commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal [e]
- Frederick Kagan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Kimberly Kagan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anthony Cordesman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Stephen Biddle [r]: Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations; member General Stanley McChrystal's Strategic Assessment Group for the Afghanistan War (2001-2021); former faculty, U.S. Army War College [e]
- Andrew Exum [r]: A Fellow with the Center for a New American Security, who has done fieldwork in Lebanon, served as a U.S. Army infantry officer in Afghanistan and Iraq, and worked in evaluation for United States Central Command [e]
- Jeremy Shapiro [r]: Director of Research and Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution; member of GEN Stanley McChrystal's Afghanistan Strategic Assessment Group; formerly with the RAND Corporation [e]
- Terry Kelly [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Catherine Dale [r]: Add brief definition or description the Congressional Research Service
- Etienne de Durand [r]: Add brief definition or description the Institut Français des Relations Internationales in Paris
- Luis Peral [r]: Add brief definition or description European Union's Institute for Strategic Studies
- Whitney Kassel [r]: Add brief definition or description Office of the United States Secretary of Defense
- Aaron Prupas [r]: Add brief definition or description United States Central Command