Fast-forward to 2012 and reality has been turned on its head. Enter retired four-star Army General Stanley McChrystal. McChrystal, who formerly led special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and later became a senior American commander in...

Nato conference in Chicago, that in two years, when US troops have ended their combat role in Afghanistan, the war "as we understand it" will be over. First, the US military has never understood what it was doing in Afghanistan, still less whom it was...

I was not one of them. I was willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, and I supported the president’s move as a way to arrest the decline in Afghanistan. Having sent more troops and first-rate commanders—first Stanley McChrystal, then David...

It's important to look at how we got here, and what has changed. In December 2009, General McChrystal laid out a strategy that identified 80 Key Terrain Districts and 41 District Areas of Interest, in Afghanistan, for us to take. These districts were...

By June 2009, there were more private DOD contractors in Afghanistan than military personnel. There were so many, the DOD and the GAO weren't quite sure of the total number, though they were sure they included a lot of private shooters. Though General...

D.C. – Former Commander of U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal will deliver the keynote address at AISI’s 120th General Meeting, which will be held May 20-22 in Cambridge, Maryland. General McChrystal, a retired Army...