Less than five years after the last Soviet tank crossed the Termez Bridge out of Afghanistan, Islamic militants launched their first attack on the World Trade Center in New York.

U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen defended President Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy on Wednesday ...

William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral and the former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, wrote “Departing Afghanistan” in June 2021, prior to the evacuation in August.