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Faced with both the impending withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops along with its own presidential election in 2014, Afghanistan now finds itself caught in the continued conflict between India and Pakistan as it tries to deal with Taliban’s threat to its internal security. Brookings experts continue to discuss issues pertinent to Afghanistan’s uncertain future.

What We Won: America's Secret War in Afghanistan 1979-89

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What We Won

2014, Bruce Riedel

In February 1989, the CIA's station chief in Islamabad famously cabled headquarters a simple message: "We Won." It was an understated coda to the most successful covert intelligence operation in American history. Why did this intelligence operation succeed so brilliantly?

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A Deadly Triangle: Afghanistan, Pakistan & India
Historian and journalist William Dalrymple looks to the present and future of Afghanistan as the U.S. withdraws from the longest war in its history. He sees the danger of an escalating conflict between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers that could threaten world peace.

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