Can the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan succeed? We are confident it is possible. But the U.S. and its allies must persuade the Taliban, Pakistan and Afghanistan that we will win.

Afghanistan's security lies in the soldiers who can already be found on a square of dusty desert a half-hour drive from Kabul.

An accelerated growth plan for Afghan national forces if very likely to allow coalition forces, including American reinforcements, to begin reducing their footprint without compromising their gains.

As we discovered in Iraq, the fastest way to help indigenous forces grow in numbers and competence is to partner U.S. and allied units with them side by side in combat.

The Bush administration shouldn't flinch from increasing its covert "propaganda" efforts in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. The history in the last great war of ideas is firmly on its side.

The Pentagon is missing one of the most important metrics for success in Iraq: its deepening ethnic and sectarian fault lines.

We are running simultaneous experiments in democracy in two countries that, despite their cultural and political differences, have much in common.

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On May 13, Uzbek troops opened fire on protesters in the Ferghana Valley city of Andijon, killing several hundred civilians. The crackdown marks the latest escalation in the repressive rule of President Islam Karimov, who—despite longstanding criticisms of...