Planning Considerations for International Involvement in Post-Taliban Afghanistan

Abstract : On November 14, 2001 - the day after the fall of Kabul - the US Army Peacekeeping Institute, Carlisle, PA, in collaboration with the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University, hosted an informal meeting on Afghanistan. The purpose of the meeting was to explore a range of options and issues affecting the design of international intervention in Afghanistan. The following report is a reflection of the issues discussed, and incorporates many of the ideas contributed by meeting participants.