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The Haqqani Network represents a strategic threat to the enduring stability of the Afghan state and U.S. national security interests in the region. The Haqqanis are currently Afghanistan’s most capable and potent insurgent group.
The campaign in Afghanistan must now focus on the East, which received few surge troops. The provinces surrounding Kabul are strategically important for controlling the capital and connecting the city with the rest of Afghanistan.
The insurgency in Afghanistan’s eastern region is likely to benefit from the Pakistani military’s new military operations in Kurram Agency.
NATO now investigating a cross-border clash between two of its own helicopters in Afghanistan and ground forces in neighboring Pakistan.
This paper details the expansion of the Haqqani Network in Pakistan’s Kurram Agency.
Coalition and Afghan forces have made remarkable progress clearing and holding critical districts in central and southern Helmand province.
Now that President Obama has authorized Gen. David Petraeus to continue to execute the current strategy in Afghanistan, the question is: Can the U.S. strategy succeed?
Negotiating with the Haqqani network, a terrorist organization in Afghanistana nd Pakistan, is not an option.
Selected video from September 22, 2010. From the Front Lines: Evaluating Afghanistan.