Understanding War in Afghanistan

This monograph is an intellectual primer on war in Afghanistan. I

come to this task through a string of accidents that has kept me involved

with war in Afghanistan as a Soldier and an academic for over 30 years.

It began in graduate school at Columbia University in New York City,

where I was privileged to study with some of the Nation’s greatest experts

on the Soviet Union and Central Europe, and with another superb crew

of scholars on war and peace issues. These interests came together with

the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

From 1980 to 1984, I worked on my dissertation on the Soviet invasion

under the guidance of two consummate professionals: Professors

Marshall Shulman, the former Advisor to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance

on Soviet affairs; and Zalmay Khalilzad, a young academic strategist who

later became a colleague in the Pentagon and still later Ambassador to

Afghanistan, his boyhood home, and then to Iraq. Three colleagues at

West Point were very helpful in my study of Afghanistan: then-Colonel

Ty Cobb, my boss, and a future senior director on the National Security

Council (NSC) staff; Visiting Professor Jerry Hudson, a superb Soviet

expert and a demanding coach; and the late Louis Dupree, the world’s

leading Afghanistan specialist, a scholar with a soldier’s heart. David Isby

and Bill Olson have also been friends and tutors on Southwest Asia since

1980. My former student and Army colleague Tom Lynch has joined their

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