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Course Correction: My Term At Afghanistan's Graduate School Of War, Ganesh Sitaraman
Course Correction: My Term At Afghanistan's Graduate School Of War, Ganesh Sitaraman
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Camp Julien is surrounded by reminders of Afghanistan's past. The coalition military base which sits in the hills south of Kabul, just high enough to rise above the thick cloud of smog that perpetually blankets the city, is flanked by two European-style palaces built in the 1920s by the modernizing King Amanullah. Home to Soviet troops and mujahedin during the past decades of war, the now-crumbling palaces are littered with bullet holes and decorated with graffiti in multiple languages. Uphill from Julien is the old Russian officers' club, dating from the Soviet invasion and featuring a recently refilled swimming pool …