Center for Security Studies

No. 51: Last Throw of the Dice? US Strategy in Afghanistan

No. 51: Last Throw of the Dice? US Strategy in Afghanistan

Author(s): Matthew Hulbert
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 51
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2009

After languishing for several years as the West's forgotten war following the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Afghanistan has risen to the top of the international agenda once more as political instability, the insurgency campaign, transnational terrorism, and state fragmentation spread. A step change in strategic thinking on Afghanistan is certainly needed, but until security conditions can be improved and political solutions found across South Asia, the entire region will inevitably remain a source of instability for the international community to confront.

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