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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
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... |
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... |
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... |
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
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... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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"... |
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. |
Geotimes
October 2003
John F. Shroder Jr. |
Reconstructing Afghanistan: Nation Building or Nation Failure? As the Coalition forces begin reconstructing Iraq, Afghanistan continues to undergo its own rebuilding process. Whether the country continues to fail or rises to succeed may depend on U.S. efforts to help develop Afghanistan's vast natural resources. |
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... |
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
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... |
Entrepreneur
September 2006
Kristin Ohlson |
The New World The opportunities in Afghanistan are once-in-a-lifetime. |
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. |
TIME Asia
October 25, 2010
Aryn Baker |
Live Aid Risks are an inherent part of doing aid work in a war zone. They should not be taken needlessly. But if an aversion to risk undermines the effectiveness of aid, the sacrifice of all those who have died will be in vain. |
Entrepreneur
August 2009
Jason Daley |
From War Zone to Franchise Zone How one franchisee is shaping a new future for business owners in Afghanistan |
Salon.com
September 24, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Terror's first victims When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer... |
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. |
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. |
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
December 6, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Putting the world on notice Delegates to the Afghan Women's Summit, deftly maneuvering past their differences, issue an ambitious agenda for inclusion in their nation's future... |
Salon.com
November 22, 2001
David Talbot |
"The North Vietnamese never bombed American cities" Progressive congressman Barney Frank talks about why he supports the war, opposes Bush's attack on civil liberties and thinks Clinton's military legacy is just fine... |
Entrepreneur
June 2003
Geoff Williams |
New Frontiers Entrepreneurs can help lead Afghans to a better future, says this businessman. |
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. |
Reason
April 2001
Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact: Shear Anxiety Haircut cops in Kabul rounded up a few dozen of the city's barbers in January, charging them with turning men into Leonardo DiCaprio wannabes. That's a serious matter in Afghanistan, because its extremist religious rulers, the Taliban, regard most foreign haircuts as "anti-Islamic"... |
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... |
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? |
Salon.com
September 25, 2001
Anthony York |
Salon's war reader Don't know much about Central Asian history? Osama bin Laden? The Web provides a crash course in what's needed to understand "America's new war"... |
Salon.com
March 22, 2001
Carina Chocano |
Save the children, or the Buddhas get it Afghanistan's roving ambassador tries to explain why the Taliban destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, which were considered the greatest remaining examples of third and fifth century Greco-Indian art in the world. |
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 |
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. |
Sports Illustrated
October 2, 2001
Frank Deford |
State of Turmoil Afghanistan has had an oddly central position in sports history... |
Parameters
Summer 2008
Henrietta Holsman Fore |
Aligning "Soft" with "Hard" Power The importance of collaboration between American development agencies and the US military and how to drive those collaborations deeper into the US Agency for International Development (USAID). |
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. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2011
Rich Smith |
Rethink Your Position on Defense Stocks America's involvement in the Afghan war isn't ending anytime soon. Nor are these companies' revenues, or profits, from the war. |
Reason
March 2002
Charles Paul Freund |
In Praise of Vulgarity How commercial culture liberates Islam -- and the West... |
Science News
September 14, 2002
Janet Raloff |
Afghanistan's Seed Banks Destroyed On Sept. 10, scientists in Kabul reported the loss of Afghanistan's principal agricultural insurance policy: two stores of carefully collected seeds, materials selected to represent the genetic diversity of native crops. |
National Defense
August 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Military Rivals State Dept. in Diplomatic Skills In just a few years, U.S. military leaders in Afghanistan have evolved from warriors to competent counterinsurgency operators surpassing the State in relationship building. |
TIME Asia
October 4, 2010
Aryn Baker |
A Failing Cause On Sept. 18, Afghans braved bombings, violence, ambushes and threats to cast their votes for members of the lower house of parliament. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2009
Rich Smith |
Mr. Obama Goes to Kabul You cried when Mr. Smith went to Washington. Now profit as Mr. Obama goes to Kabul. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2011
Glenn Zorpette |
Re-engineering Afghanistan The coalition has spent hundreds of millions trying to give Afghanistan electricity. Unfortunately, it made many of the mistakes it made in Iraq |
Reason
March 2005
Charles Paul Freund |
Artifact: Idol Hour Here is a pair of idols apparently acting out a forgotten pagan tale of Central Asia. Part of a collection housed in the Kabul Museum, the wooden statues were badly damaged in 2001 on the orders of the Taliban regime. |
Outside
January 2010
Grayson Schaffer |
Books: Eric Blehm Eric Blehm's third book, The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan details the U.S. Army's campaign to take the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. |
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
Winter 2006/2007
Tariq Gilani |
US-Pakistan Relations: The Way Forward An improved US-Pakistani relationship will solidify Pakistan as a reliable regional partner and strengthen the overall conduct of the global war on terrorism, further stabilizing a region that at one time was fraught with danger. |
