Kevin Drum thinks people, including myself, are being too hard on the Obama team when it comes to AfPak policymaking: If [Rajiv] Chandrasekar's account is correct, the fault isn't really with the ...

A white-bearded Osama bin Laden sat in a barren room in his Abbottabad, Pakistan compound watching himself on a small TV. At the same time, the expanding fleet of U.S. armed drones were zeroing in on ...

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Martin Dempsey, recently released a memo regarding the Asia-Pacific Hands Program (APAC). In the memo, General Dempsey states that he has directed the Joint ...

Anatol Lieven has an interesting piece up at the National Interest. Lieven is an expert on Pakistan and on his last trip there conducted interviews with two low-level Taliban operatives in Pakistani ...

Afghanistan is a challenge that would bedevil even the finest foreign policy makers. But today's big stories in the Post and Times paint a somewhat discouraging picture of the Obama team's handling of ...

Air Force Maj. Christy Barry, a lawyer and member of the first cohort of U.S. service members and civilians in the AFPAK Hands program, speaks Dari with Afghan national army officers in April 2010 at ...

The Pak Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS) report published on January 10 makes clear that the carnage from the fighting between the Pakistani military and anti-government Islamist and tribal militants ...

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TAMPA, Fla - Army Lt. Col. Michael King could have imagined that his military career would take many unexpected turns, but he never expected to become an Afghan village elder’s marriage counselor, a ...

Commandant of Naval District Washington Rear Adm. Patrick Lorge presents the Bronze Star medal to Lt. Jason Gregoire, Afghanistan-Pakistan (AFPAK) Hand. Gregoire was presented the bronze star Feb. 1 ...