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Parent topics
- 9-11 Attacks [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9/11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
- Taliban [r]: Extremist political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the 1990s and has twice seized power in the country. [e]
Subtopics
- Afghanistan War (2001-), major combat phase [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Kunduz [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Tora Bora [r]: Add brief definition or description
Commanders
Anti-Western
- Muhammad Omar [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Osama bin Laden [r]: Radical jihadist who, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, founded a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. [e]
- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar [r]: Add brief definition or description
Afghan government
Western
- Tommy Franks [r]: Head of United States Central Command during the start of the Afghanistan War (2001-2021) and Iraq War; retired as a general [e]
- John Abizaid [r]: Add brief definition or description
- William Fallon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Petraeus [r]: General, U.S. Army, presently commanding United States Central Command after having the senior command in Iraq, long associated with counterinsurgency doctrine [e]
- David McKiernan [r]: A U.S Army General who was relieved early of command of the International Security Assistance Force, NATO's headquarters in Afghanistan; he commanded the ground forces in the Iraq War and is an armored combat specialist, as opposed to his replacement, GEN Stanley McChrystal, a special operations officer [e]
- Stanley McChrystal [r]: General, United States Army; senior Western military officer in Afghanistan, commanding the International Security Assistance Force and United States Forces-Afghanistan; professional background in special operations including heading the Joint Special Operations Command and 75th Ranger Regiment; previously Military Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations [e]
Analysis
- Andrew Bacevich [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anthony Cordesman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nathaniel Fick [r]: President and previously Chief Operating Officer Center for a New American Security;counterinsurgency theorist; United States Marine Corps officer in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars ; Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies [e]
- John Nagl [r]: President of the Center for a New American Security; member of the Defense Policy Board,a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, member Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies; retired lieutenant colonel, United States Army; combat experience in Gulf War and Iraq War [e]
- Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. [e]
- Special reconnaissance [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Central Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
- United States Special Operations Command [r]: Add brief definition or description