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Karzai with former US President George W. Bush and wife Laura Bush at Camp David in 2007.
Keep Karzai in the Loop
Images like these, of starving children and a malnourished population given to periodic famines, offer a human face to the long standing debate about whether India is "overpopulated" or "underdeveloped".
Population Bomb? The Debate over Indian Population
A U.S. Tank in Karbala, Iraq, May 2004. The American experiences in Afghanistan and especially Iraq over the past eight years have forced the U.S. military to rethink how it approaches counterinsurgent warfare. After some successes in Iraq, will the new counterinsurgency doctrine also work in Afghanistan?
From Baghdad to Kabul: The Historical Roots of U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine
Two Afghan women dressed in bright blue burqas. Today the burqa stands as a symbol of the status of women in Afghanistan, but for much of the twentieth century the history of women in this war-torn country led also toward greater rights and public presence.
The Long, Long Struggle for Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Ration distribution point.
The Other War in Pakistan
This photo shows Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDR), which was transported from bases in the U.S. and air dropped to regions of Afghanistan where the displaced people are at risk of starvation.
Democracy’s Vital Ingredient — Food
India and Pakistan highlighted on a map.
“Open Skies” for India and Pakistan?
A tractor purchased through the Marshall Plan for France.
Grand Fenwick, Afghanistan and Iraq
Soviet soldiers riding on a combat vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1986.
The United States Must Learn From the Soviet War in Afghanistan
Northern Alliance Troops in Afghanistan in 2001.
Why Afghanistan Will Not Be a Quagmire
A photo of the Steamship Martha Washington in 1913.
Thinking Differently about “Think Different”
paper with AIDS text on it
AIDS Education in Bombay's Red Light District