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Michael Capstick

Colonel (Retired) Michael Capstick has worked in Afghanistan since 2005 as a soldier, as an advisor to the Afghan government and as the country director of a non-governmental organization based in Kabul.

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Michael Capstick

The Afghan Decade

Two very different views on the success of foreign intervention January–February 2012
Both Chris Alexander’s The Long Way Back: Afghanistan’s Quest for Peace and Terry Glavin’s Come from the Shadows: The Long and Lonely Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan were released within a few days of the tenth anniversary of the American-led attack on the Afghan Taliban regime in response to the 9/11 attacks on the United…