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Afghanistan 2050 — Two Sucessful Campaigns in a Wider War
What was determinative in America’s victorious 2001 and 2008 – 2013 Afghanistan military campaigns was the will of the American people to keep the Afghanistan from becoming a terrorist base again....
View ArticleAfghanistan 2050: A distributed solution to the distributed problem
Afghanistan history over the last 50 years is a study in the contexts of land locked populations struggling between radical theocracy and criminal ambition. Over the last 50 years we have seen a...
View ArticleAfghanistan 2050: A Political Watershed
. . . Thus ends our discussion of the military aspects of the Afghan campaign. The political roots of the campaign and how they developed – everyone obviously has their own individual story as to how...
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Afghanistan 2050: “A Muslim Yugoslavia”
“We snatched anarchy from the jaws of defeat” – Henry Kissinger Historians tracing the origins of the short but terrible Indo-Punjabistani nuclear exchange of 2024 over the issue of Kashmiri...
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Afghanistan:2050
August 15, 2050 marked the 35th Anniversary of the fall of Kandahar when the fundamentalist Taliban reclaimed the city and began imposing Sharia Law across the southern half of what had been pre-2015...
View Article2050: Newly Published History of the American Army’s Disaster in 2016
“Irregular warfare is more intellectual than a bayonet charge” TE Lawrence In 2050 historians analyzing the reasons for the disastrous defeat of the United States Army at the hands of the Turkish and...
View ArticleAfghanistan 2050: Other Voices on AfPak
In addition to the futurist Afghanistan 2050 Roundtable going on here at Chicago Boyz, I’d like to point out some bloggers and academics dealing with the region’s present: Chris Albon – US Military And...
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Afghanistan 2050: Walking and Chewing Gum at the Same Time
In fiscal 2010, the U.S. government will spend between $880 billion and $1.03 trillion dollars on defense (depending upon how you finagle the numbers). This is, in a much ballyhooed percentage, around...
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Back to the Future: Afghanistan in 2050
A nurse instructs a group of young mothers on post-natal care. Two women flip through records in the local shop, asking questions of the gentleman who works there. Young girls laugh in the sunshine as...
View ArticleAfghanistan 2050: Tribes vs. Networks, cont.
Here’s an epilogue/postscript to my initial (August 13) post for this roundtable: The dozen BOIDS — small ultra-quiet stealthy long-range aerial DIY drones designed to swarm against an adversary’s OODA...
View ArticleAfghanistan 2050: A Chronic Low-Grade Sameness. Or, Each Life, A Story.
(Alternate title: When Borders Need To Heal….) When we got to the Southern Afghanistan-Balochistan camps the first thing we noticed was the quiet. Even more strange than the lines of donated tents, the...
View ArticleAfghanistan 2050: Tribes vs. Networks, cont. & cont.
Here is another speculative scenario for the Afghanistan 2050 roundtable. It reflects themes in my August 13 post and is not inconsistent with my August 22 post: The Black-Flag Wars of the 20s and 30s...
View ArticleAfghanistan 2050
You Westerners have your watches, but we Taliban have time. —- I am delighted to contribute to the Afghanistan 2050 discussion here on Chicago Boyz, back in 2010. I was in fact briefly in...
View ArticleAfghanistan 2050 Roundtable Summing-Up
[Other contributors who wish to post any follow-up or further thoughts are welcome to do so.] I. Moral Clarity I am posting this on September 11, 2010. We attacked the Taliban regime because they...
View ArticleWherein Lex takes issue with Seydlitz89
Our Roundtable colleague Seydlitz89 has a post up which discusses the recent Glen Beck posts, and also my Afghanistan Roundtable wrap-up post. His post is here. I have several problems with his post. I...
View Article“AfPak 2020: A Symposium”
We asked four experts what US policy in the AfPak theater would yield in the next ten years—and what, if anything, Washington might do differently. Military historian Victor Davis Hanson begins by...
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On the ideas that follow us, one decade to the next….
Detente’s greatest achievement was the opening of consistent contact between the United States and the USSR in the early 1970s—a gradually intensifying engagement on many levels and in many areas...
View Article“Americans, who are you?”
I left the following comment at zenpundit : Kabir says, “I don’t touch ink or paper This hand never grasped a pen The greatness of four ages Kabir tells with his mouth alone” Tom Tom Club (Wordy...
View ArticleI can’t believe you said that, Secretary Clinton.
Now, I also think it’s important to take a little historical review. If you go on YouTube, you can see Sirajuddin Haqqani with President Reagan at the White House, because during the war against the...
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Some Good Links on America 3.0 Themes
Two reports from McKinsey are helpful in thinking about our 2040 scenario. I have only looked at the — 30 page — executive summaries. Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life,...
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