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==Parent topics== | ==Parent topics== | ||
{{r|9-11 | {{r|9-11 Attack}} | ||
{{r|al-Qaeda}} | {{r|al-Qaeda}} | ||
{{r|Taliban}} | {{r|Taliban}} | ||
==Subtopics== | ==Subtopics== | ||
{{r|Afghanistan War (2001-), major combat phase}} | {{r|Afghanistan War (2001-2021), major combat phase}} | ||
{{r|Battle of Kunduz}} | {{r|Battle of Kunduz}} | ||
===Commanders=== | ===Commanders=== | ||
====Anti-Western==== | ====Anti-Western==== | ||
{{r|Osama bin Laden}} | {{r|Osama bin Laden}} | ||
====Afghan government==== | ====Afghan government==== | ||
====Western==== | ====Western==== | ||
{{r|Tommy Franks}} | {{r|Tommy Franks}} | ||
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Parent topics
- 9-11 Attack [r]: A massive terrorist attack on the United States, occurring on September 11, 2001. [e]
- 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 (2001-2021), major combat phase [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Battle of Kunduz [r]: Add brief definition or description
Commanders
Anti-Western
- 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]
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]: 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 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]