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Parent topics

• 9-11 Attack [r]: A massive terrorist attack on the United States, occurring on September 11, 2001. ^[e]
• Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9/11 attack and other terrorist attacks. ^[e]
• Taliban [r]: Extremist political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the 1990s and has twice seized power in the country. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Afghanistan War (2001-2021), major combat phase [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle of Kunduz [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Battle of Tora Bora [r]: Add brief definition or description

Commanders

Anti-Western

• Muhammad Omar [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Osama bin Laden [r]: Radical jihadist who, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, founded a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. ^[e]

Afghan government

• Hamid Karzai [r]: Add brief definition or description

Western

• Tommy Franks [r]: Head of United States Central Command during the start of the Afghanistan War (2001-2021) and Iraq War; retired as a general ^[e]
• John Abizaid [r]: Add brief definition or description
• William Fallon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• David Petraeus [r]: General, U.S. Army, presently commanding United States Central Command after having the senior command in Iraq, long associated with counterinsurgency doctrine ^[e]
• David McKiernan [r]: A U.S Army General who was relieved early of command of the International Security Assistance Force, NATO's headquarters in Afghanistan; he commanded the ground forces in the Iraq War and is an armored combat specialist, as opposed to his replacement, GEN Stanley McChrystal, a special operations officer ^[e]
• Stanley McChrystal [r]: General, United States Army; senior Western military officer in Afghanistan, commanding the International Security Assistance Force and United States Forces-Afghanistan; professional background in special operations including heading the Joint Special Operations Command and 75th Ranger Regiment; previously Military Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations ^[e]

Analysis

• Andrew Bacevich [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Anthony Cordesman [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Nathaniel Fick [r]: President and previously Chief Operating Officer Center for a New American Security;counterinsurgency theorist; United States Marine Corps officer in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars ; Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies ^[e]
• John Nagl [r]: President of the Center for a New American Security; member of the Defense Policy Board,a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, member Council on Foreign Relations, International Institute for Strategic Studies; retired lieutenant colonel, United States Army; combat experience in Gulf War and Iraq War ^[e]

Other related topics

• Central Intelligence Agency [r]: The principal civilian intelligence organization of the United States, specializing in all-source intelligence analysis, clandestine human-source intelligence, and covert action. ^[e]
• Special reconnaissance [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Central Command [r]: Add brief definition or description
• United States Special Operations Command [r]: Add brief definition or description