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Outside
December 2003
Patrick Symmes |
The Kabul Express In the sixties and seventies it was the hippie trail that brought foreigners to Afghanistan. Two decades of war and terror later, Kabul is a nonstop rave of C-130s, NGOs, soldiers, and spooky nation-builders. The freaks are back on Chicken Street -- where everything old is new again.   |
Outside
November 2005
Mark Jenkins |
A Short Walk in the Wakhan Corridor Cross into this forgotten valley and you'll trade the insanity of modern Afghanistan for a far wilder frontier: a last-ditch, back-of-beyond outpost of breathtaking beauty, ancient strongholds, and 25 centuries of war. |
BusinessWeek
January 6, 2011
Jason Kelly |
Afghanistan: Land of War and Opportunity Where most people see only deprivation and misery, Paul Brinkley sees potential. With luck, business will agree |
TIME Asia
June 14, 2010
Tim McGirk |
Armed Farces The U.S. has spent $26 billion building up the Afghan army. But it is still poorly trained and rife with internal rivalries. Will it ever be fit to fight? |
Smithsonian
September 2007 |
The New Civil Service An excerpt from Rory Stewart's "The Places in Between," a best-selling work of travel literature based on the author's 600-mile walk across rural Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's fall. |
Outside
November 2009
Brian Mockenhaupt |
Fire on the Mountain In the rugged eastern provinces of Afghanistan, American Troops are engaged in a kind of alpine warfare not seen for decades. Months can go by without combat, but the calm is often shattered when you least expect it. |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Sean M. Maloney |
Afghanistan Four Years On: An Assessment The situation in Afghanistan has progressed to the point where guarded optimism is justified. Unfortunately, the perception of the situation on the ground has become distorted through the prism of American partisan politics. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Manjeet Kripalani |
Operation: Stability in Afghanistan The country is making steady progress, but it's facing huge challenges in getting ready for free elections next June. |
Outside
January 2007
Patrick Symmes |
Postcards from the Edge The year's best voices on the hottest spots around write their experiences down. In Mirrors of the Unseen: Journey in Iran by Jason Elliot... River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny... |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
April Rabkin |
Transforming Sustainable Energy in Afghanistan In Afghanistan, living off the grid isn't a tree hugger's dream -- it's reality. but a renewable-power startup called Sustainable Energy Services Afghanistan is lighting up Afghans' lives, with help from the sun and the wind. |
Fast Company
E.B. Boyd |
Getting Out Of Afghanistan Leaving Afghanistan has become one of the most difficult operations the U.S. military has ever undertaken. |
Salon.com
December 12, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Ready for her close-up A doctor, educator, human rights activist and mother, Habiba Sarabi longs for a chance to work -- legally -- back home in Afghanistan... |
Military History
November 4, 2004
Simon Rees |
The Long Road to Kandahar Major General Frederick S. Roberts knew the going would be rough as he took charge of the 'Kandahar Field Force,' but he also knew that failure was not an option. |
Parameters
Spring 2004
Sean M. Maloney |
Afghanistan: From Here to Eternity? American policy in Afghanistan is at a crossroads, or so it appears. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested in May 2003 that the war on terror in Afghanistan was in "cleanup" or "mop up" phase. |
Popular Mechanics
May 12, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
What the Firing of 4-Star Gen. McKiernan Means for Afghan War: Analysis What is the strategy in Afghanistan? |
Salon.com
October 10, 2001
Asra Q. Nomani |
At home with the Taliban While U.S. bombs dropped on his country, an Afghan official and his two wives welcomed me into their living room and talked of marriage, music and his memories of dining in the World Trade Center's starry restaurant... |
Salon.com
December 11, 2001
Janelle Brown |
The women behind the women of Afghanistan Hena Efat was smuggled into the Afghan Women's Summit; her plan is to go home and fight some more... |
Real Travel Adventures
April 2006
Mary McIntosh |
Along the Khyber Pass Driving down the land route between Pakistan and India evokes a deep sense of the history that this pass has seen. |
National Defense
February 2014
Stephen A. Mackey |
Time to Make Key Decisions in Afghanistan As the United States enters its second decade in Afghanistan, it is wise to examine the nation's interests and use them to inform the path ahead. Nations do not have permanent friends and allies, only permanent interests. |
Salon.com
November 16, 2001
Janelle Brown |
"Beneath the Veil" redux Documentary filmmaker Saira Shah returns to Afghanistan to find hopeful soldiers and starving children. Her film of the journey is called "Unholy War"... |
Salon.com
September 22, 2001
Sean Kenny |
Anger in the bazaars of Peshawar The Taliban has strong support in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. If there is civil war, it will start here... |
Geotimes
October 2004
John F. Shroder Jr. |
Afghanistan Redux: Better Late Than Never Efforts by USGS to study the resources of Afghanistan that are necessary to help boost its economy have been far from straightforward since September 11, but at last are now under way. |
Parameters
Spring 2006
Ali A. Jalali |
The Future of Afghanistan Afghanistan is again at a crossroads. One road leads to peace and prosperity; the other leads to the loss of all that has been achieved. Everything depends on the level of international commitment to help Afghanistan emerge from the dark shadows of its recent past. |
Salon.com
October 2, 2001
Janelle Brown |
The Taliban's bravest opponents An underground resistance of Afghan women risks torture and execution to alert the world to the regime's atrocities. One freedom fighter tells her story... |
Salon.com
December 17, 2001
Tamim Ansary |
Leaping to conclusions Well-meaning observers are making dangerous assumptions about Afghan women and their goals for the future... |
Salon.com
September 19, 2001
Laura Miller |
The "enemy" we barely know A writer who has traveled extensively in Afghanistan talks about how little we understand its people, how dangerous it is to underestimate them and why they have cause to resent the U.S.... |
Salon.com
December 3, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Any day now Afghan women hope to use the momentum of international recognition to secure civil rights and a role in government... |
Salon.com
December 5, 2001
Janelle Brown |
A chance to shine Afghan women delegates in Brussels prepare for a role in government, and react variously to a French belly dancer in a spangled bra... |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
The Helicopter War: PM Reports from Afghanistan The 120 soldiers seated in the gravel at Forward Operating Base Zormat in eastern Afghanistan are all eagerly watching the sky |
Salon.com
October 19, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Optional burqas and mandatory malnutrition After spending 18 months studying Afghanistan, Dr. Lynn Amowitz reports that life under the Taliban is more brutal -- and more complicated -- than we suspected... |
Salon.com
September 22, 2001
Ken Silverstein |
Blasts from the past The weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own, the relics of a $7 billion Cold War campaign... |
Salon.com
April 23, 2002
Mark Scheffler |
The real war on terrorism Robert Young Pelton, author of "The World's Most Dangerous Places," says the U.S. military has killed "thousands and thousands" of people in Afghanistan, al-Qaida is a myth and the WTC was brought down by a "Mickey Mouse" outfit... |
Salon.com
December 13, 2001
Janelle Brown |
An Afghan aristocrat fights for equality Leila Enayat-Seraj rolls up her couture sleeves to rescue Afghan art and restore civil rights for women... |
Wired
November 2001
Evan Ratliff |
The Electric Kool-Aid Bandwidth Test Luke Stewart boldly sold politicians, businesspeople, and financiers on his trillion-dollar idea: Use the electrical grid to carry data at speeds faster than we've ever seen. Never mind how... |
Salon.com
September 27, 2001
Steve Kettmann |
Creating "many, many Osamas" Novelist William Vollmann says if the U.S. convinces Afghans of bin Laden's guilt, they'll support the move against him. If not, only "genocide" will defeat them... |
ifeminists
July 10, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
Arm the Afghan women Give an Afghan woman the right to own a gun and you protect her long after the current tragedy has become old news. A gun in the hand of a mother who is protecting her child may be the most humanitarian relief of all. |
World War II
June 23, 2004
Jon Guttman |
U.S. Navy Photographer Jack Stewart: Eyewitness to the Divine Wind As a U.S. Navy photographer on the aircraft carrier Essex, Jack Stewart had a ringside seat when a Japanese kamikaze attacked his ship on November 25, 1944. |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Andrew S. Natsios |
The Nine Principles of Reconstruction and Development In a time of increasing collaboration between the two organizations, it is important that the military gain a better understanding of how the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and development agencies generally approach their work, and how the two communities can beneficially build on this cooperation. |
