DEFENSE

Progress Becomes Rockier In Afghanistan

If Iraq is the model for how to defeat an insurgency, NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan have a very long road ahead.

by James Kitfield

Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008


This year is on pace to become the deadliest in Afghanistan for allied forces since the Taliban was toppled in 2001. The fatalities are a symptom of the fitful progress, intermittent backsliding, and mounting challenges that have come to characterize the Afghan war.

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