Both have previous experience in Afghanistan and more history with counterinsurgency operations than McKiernan.
Administration officials are thinking through the lessons of Afghanistan and other recent history.
The copter has a long history in Afghanistan.
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Since August, he has been studying the history of Afghanistan as well as the military operations since the war began in 2001, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information.
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Given the past history of intense rivalries in Afghanistan, it is a big question, of course, whether even a Loya Jirga could find a consensus.
Given the difficulties in Iraq and Afghanistan, American officers are relearning the history of their own interventions in Latin America and, more important, the lessons of British imperial policing.
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But like everything else in Afghanistan, the unbuilt pipeline is already scorched by history.
Karzai is Afghanistan's first popularly elected leader in recent history.
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The general opinion here seems to be that Afghanistan is an undeservedly forgotten page in Estonia's history.
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Clinton noted Iran's history of cooperating with the United States on Afghanistan since the U.S. invasion in 2001.
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Afghanistan needs to see the value of learning its own cultural history as too often the country's story is co-opted by the lens of another.
On Afghanistan, the nation has learned a lot over the past couple days about Sergeant Bales, the suspect in the mass shooting in Afghanistan, and it's raised questions about his personal history and about the strains of war, multiple tours of duty.
So not only will Afghanistan lose an ancient site, a key to unlocking its important history, but the country will lose the land and everything living on it.
President Bush said history called the U.S. to action in Afghanistan as he praised Afghan President Hamid Karzai's leadership Monday at the conclusion of a two-day meeting at Camp David.
Taylor, who worked with mortars and served tours in Afghanistan and Kuwait, had dreamed being in the Corps since watching the History Channel as a boy.
Situated on a plateau in the central region of Afghanistan, Ghazni has a population of about 140, 000 people and a long history of military invasions.
The former commanding general of U.S. forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan equated the situation in Syria today with one of the most deadly nuclear accidents in history.
The Collection is of great significance for the study of the history and culture of the peoples of Central Asia, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and the Arab world, and of the political, diplomatic and cultural relations between them.
Correspondents say that the reluctance of the allies to offer resources for Afghanistan has dogged the credibility of Nato's first mission outside Europe or America in its 55-year history.
The lack of studying of recent history made it difficult for pupils to understand current affairs and in particular the military action taking place in Afghanistan, the historian had said.
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