Empire after empire, nation after nation have failed to pacify what is today the modern territory of Afghanistan, giving the region the nickname “Graveyard of Empires, ” even if sometimes ...

“Afghanistan,” we are told, as if this explains everything, “is the graveyard of empires.” From Alexander the Great to 21st-century America, Afghanistan is supposed to have grievously ...

Go back and read the piece that Milton Bearden wrote in the November/December 2001 issue of Foreign Affairs, called “Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires.” The piece, which was written before the October ...

Does al Qaeda in Afghanistan threaten US security? What about the Taliban? What will it take to establish a credible civilian government? Should the US send more troops or begin conducting a graceful ...

They weren’t kidding when they called Afghanistan the “graveyard of empires.” Indeed, that cemetery has just taken another imperial body. And it wasn’t pretty, was it? Not that anyone ...

(CNN)-- The ancient Persians called it "the land of the unruly." Historians call it "the graveyard of empires." President Obama calls Afghanistan something else: The "central front" in the battle ...

The first issue of Graveyard of Empires shocked me. But not in the sense that it produced nonstop thrills that had me on the edge of my seat. Instead, Graveyard of Empires #1 shocked me because ...

Osama bin Laden once boasted that, with just a few jihadists, he could draw the United States military to the ends of the Earth, and drag the superpower into suffering economic, political and ...

Afghanistan is a stark reminder of what happens when people don’t learn from history. There was no doubt that the former Afghan government was corrupt and incompetent which, were the reasons for ...