Afghanistan Quote by Robert M. Gates

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the…

— Sergei Ivanov

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be…

— Michael Hastings

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

— Abu Bakar Bashir

Afghanistan would have been difficult enough without Iraq. Iraq made it impossible. The argument that had we just focused on Afghanistan we'd now be…

— Michael Hastings

Afghanistan is ideally suited for guerrilla warfare, as the Soviets discovered in the 1980s.

— John Mearsheimer

“because Afghanistan is no country to fight a war in – and an impossible one to hold if you win.”

— M.M. Kaye

We never had an exit strategy in Afghanistan, at least not one that made any sense.

— Nancy Mace

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

— Clint Eastwood

I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months.

— Barack Obama

I mean, the United States has had an eighteen-year military commitment in Afghanistan, and frankly, I can't think of any country other than the…

— Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Like Vietnam, Afghanistan was never about troop levels; it is about how troops are utilized.

— Erik Prince