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Parent topics
- United States Army [r]: Branch of the United States Armed Forces with the principal responsibility of conducting large-scale ground combat [e]
- United States Special Operations Command [r]: A U.S. Unified Combatant Command with both functional and operational responsibilities, both to prepare special operations forces for the geographic commands, and to execute strategic special operations, typically under national orders and high security classification [e]
- Special operations [r]: Military or paramilitary operations that differ from conventional operations in degree of physical and political risk, operational techniques, mode of employment, independence from friendly support, and dependence on detailed operational intelligence and indigenous assets; they are often controlled at a national or strategic level of command [e]
- Counterinsurgency [r]: Theory and practice of defeating insurgency without creating even more local resistance or strategic failures [e]
- Counterterrorism [r]: A range of activities that prevent attempted terrorism well before an actual act is close to being executed, including killing or capturing terrorists; complements and can include anti-terrorism, or measures taken to minimize the impact of an attempted or completed act; counterterrorism proper is "enemy centric" rather than counterinsurgency, which is "people-centric" [e]
Subtopics
- U.S. policy towards Afghanistan [r]: Grand strategy of the United States in respect of the Afghanistan War (2001-2021). [e]
- Afghanistan War (2001-2021) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9/11 attack, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces [e]
- International Security Assistance Force [r]: United Nations authorized, North Atlantic Treaty Organization-commanded military and security force in Afghanistan, in both a combat and training role [e]
- United States Central Command [r]: Unified Combatant Command responsible for U.S. operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, now under the command of General James Mattis [e]
- United States Forces-Afghanistan [r]: (USFOR-A) is the senior U.S. military headquarters for the Afghanistan War (2001-2021) [e]
Strategic Assessment Group
- Chris Kolenda [r]: Add brief definition or description Director/coordinator, Strategic Assessment Group
- Daniel Pick [r]: Colonel, United States Army; a Military Intelligence officer and adviser to General Stanley McChrystal, senior U.S. and NATO military commander in the Afghanistan War (2001-2021); Foreign Area Officer for the Near East [e]
- Sarah Chayes [r]: Originally a historian, then a journalist who covered conflicts worldwide including the Afghanistan War (2001-2021), she left reporting to work on reconstruction in Afghanistan; she was on the Strategic Assessment Group advising the new commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal [e]
- Frederick Kagan [r]: A Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a member of the Strategic Assessments Group to GEN Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan; former professor of history at the United States Military Academy; involved in planning the "Surge" in the Iraq War; academic adviser, Center for Security Policy; son of Donald Kagan and brother of Robert Kagan, prominent neoconservatives; spouse of Kimberly Kagan [e]
- Kimberly Kagan [r]: Military historian, president of the Institute for the Study of War; member of the Strategic Assessment Group for GEN Stanley McChrystal in developing new doctrine for the Afghanistan War (2001-2021); adviser to Multi-National Force-Iraq; spouse of Frederick Kagan [e]
- Anthony Cordesman [r]: Center for Strategic and International Studies; Board of Editors, Middle East Quarterly [e]
- Stephen Biddle [r]: Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations; member General Stanley McChrystal's Strategic Assessment Group for the Afghanistan War (2001-2021); former faculty, U.S. Army War College [e]
- Andrew Exum [r]: A Fellow with the Center for a New American Security, who has done fieldwork in Lebanon, served as a U.S. Army infantry officer in Afghanistan and Iraq, and worked in evaluation for United States Central Command [e]
- Jeremy Shapiro [r]: Director of Research and Fellow, Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution; member of GEN Stanley McChrystal's Afghanistan Strategic Assessment Group; formerly with the RAND Corporation [e]
- Terry Kelly [r]: RAND Corporation defense analyst, a member of General Stanley McChrystal's Strategic Assessment Group for the Afghanistan War (2001-2021); involved in Iraq reconstruction both with the U.S. Mission to Iraq and the Coalition Provisional Authority; U.S. Army officer [e]
- Catherine Dale [r]: Add brief definition or description the Congressional Research Service
- Etienne de Durand [r]: Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI); strategic assessment team for General Stanley McChrystal in the Afghanistan War (2001-2021) [e] the Institut Français des Relations Internationales in Paris
- Luis Peral [r]: Add brief definition or description European Union's Institute for Strategic Studies
- Whitney Kassel [r]: Add brief definition or description Office of the United States Secretary of Defense
- Aaron Prupas [r]: Add brief definition or description United States Central Command
Pre-ISAF
- Joint Staff (U.S.) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gulf War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 75th Ranger Regiment [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Army Special Forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Naval War College [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Counterterrorism [r]: A range of activities that prevent attempted terrorism well before an actual act is close to being executed, including killing or capturing terrorists; complements and can include anti-terrorism, or measures taken to minimize the impact of an attempted or completed act; counterterrorism proper is "enemy centric" rather than counterinsurgency, which is "people-centric" [e]
- Counterinsurgency [r]: Theory and practice of defeating insurgency without creating even more local resistance or strategic failures [e]
- Robert Gates [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David McKiernan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Karl Eikenberry [r]: Add brief definition or description
- John Brennan [r]: Add brief definition or description