A critical year for Afghanistan

Commanders say they now have the troops and tactics that could win the war, but the Taliban is crafty and the clock is ticking.

By Jeff Davis

Published January 6, 2010

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD—Western armies began battling in Afghanistan early in the last decade. Now, as the world enters a new one, Afghanistan appears scarcely closer to the moderate, developing country so many hoped it would become. Instead, the Taliban are resurgent, their bombs grow larger and more deadly, and their campaign of public intimidation strikes fear into the hearts of collaborators and the population...

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