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Parent topics

• U.S. foreign policy [r]: The foreign relations and diplomacy of the United States since 1775. ^[e]
• Taliban [r]: Extremist political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the 1990s and has twice seized power in the country. ^[e]
• Taliban in Pakistan [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Counterinsurgency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9/11 attack and other terrorist attacks. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Afghan Security Forces [r]: Add brief definition or description
• 2009 Afghanistan presidential election [r]: Add brief definition or description

Policymakers

• Karl Eikenberry [r]: U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan as of 29 April 2009, having retired as a lieutenant general, United States Army, and deputy head of the NATO Military Committee on the 28th ^[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]
• 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]
• John Brennan [r]: Add brief definition or description

Analysts

• 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]: Add brief definition or description
• 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]: Add brief definition or description 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

Other related topics

• Zalmay Khalizad [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Hamid Karzai [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Abdullah Abdullah [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Kai Eide [r]: Add brief definition or description