Afghanistan: U.S. withdrawl, U.S. Afghan Nationalist on regional interests.

Resources for Afghanistan:  
Amrullah Saleh, Afghanistan's Spy Chief Twitter Account https://twitter.com/amrullahsaleh1
PBS Frontline 'The Spy Who Quit'  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/2011/01/video-amrullah-saleh-spy-who-quit.html

Michael O'Hanlon Afghan Index Brookings: http://www.brookings.edu/about/programs/foreign-policy/afghanistan-index

Antonio Giustozzi Renowned Taliban Authority:  https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/tag/antonio-giustozzi/

Seth Jones:  Author Specializing in Afghanistan, RAND Corp., http://www.rand.org/about/people/j/jones_seth_g.html

Institute for Study of War:  http://www.understandingwar.org/afghanistan

The Dark Defile by Diane Preston, Amazon:  http://amzn.com/0802779824

Invisible Armies by Max Boot, Amazon:  http://amzn.com/0871406888

Peter Wehner 'Afghanistan is NOT Obama's War', Ethics & Public Policy Center:  http://eppc.org/author/peter_wehner/page/3/

Leslie Gelb 'Obama's Befuddling Afghan Policy' WSJ:  http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/why_befuddled/

A Question of Command, Afghanistan & Leadership by Mark Moyar, Amazon:  http://amzn.com/0300168071

Orbis Operations:  America's Counter-Insurgency Business, http://www.orbisops.com/#/home

Ann Marlow, Author, Anthropologist & Islamic Insurgency Authority: http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/new/blogs/marlowe

John Nagl, Author of Armies C.O.I.N. Field Manual:  http://www.cnas.org/NaglJohn

Ahmad Majidyar, Author and Authority on Southwest Asia: http://www.aei.org/author/ahmad-k-majidyar/

Rufus Phillips, Author & Authority on U.S. Civil-Military Relations & Insurgencies:  http://whyvietnammatters.com/author.html

Jack Devine, C.O.I.N. & Insurgency Specialist, CEO of ARKIN GROUP: http://thearkingroup.com/leadership/partners/jack-devine/