Georgetown Scholar Explains the Past, Present, and Future of Afghanistan’s Endless War

Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) professor, Dr. Anatol Lieven, spoke to a packed on-campus audience in a lecture titled “Afghanistan: War Without End?” where he shared his observations as a journalist embedded with the mujahideen following the withdrawal of Soviet troops in the late 1980s and as a researcher in Afghanistan since the overthrow of the Taliban, and explained the current challenges Afghanistan is presenting the forces and foreign policy choices of the United States.