Blog Posts

“This was a key moment that raised the Soviet sense of threat”: Declassified Documents Show Moscow’s Fear of an Afghan Flip: FRINFORMSUM 1/31/2019

Jan 31, 2019

Supporters “Are in the Oil Industry”: Declassified DIA Cables Show Haqqani Network Revenue Streams

Sep 13, 2016

Declassified Memo of Rumsfeld’s Post-9/11 Middle East Visit Highlights Logistical Challenges; Unwavering Belief in WMD

Jan 7, 2015

Making Maliki and Karzai: How Washington Produced Unhelpful Allies in the Middle East

Jul 8, 2014

Document Friday: “Iraq is an advanced society… Afghanistan is not.”

Aug 13, 2010

Document Friday: Afghanistan, “Heading Towards a Catastrophe” before 9/11?

Dec 18, 2009