Nikolas K. Gvosdev (NWC): The Soviet Victory That Never Was: What the United States Can Learn from the Soviet War in Afghanistan; and Jihadology: How the creation of Sovietology should guide the study of today’s threats. Thirty years ago, Soviet airborne troops parachuted into Kabul and began a fateful occupation that became Mikhail Gorbachev’s Vietnam — here’s the inside story of how it happened. Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway on what Congress should do about the war in Afghanistan. From NYRB, Pankaj Mishra on Afghanistan and the forgotten conflict in Kashmir (and a response). Karzai's Cronies: Meet the unsavory characters surrounding the Afghan president and his new government. The price of peace: Avoiding failure in Afghanistan means embracing its patronage politics — bribes and all. Renouncing Islamism: A

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