October 5, 2009

This October 2009 issue of The Weekly Standard featured a major cover story by Frederick and Kimberly Kagan examining the rationale for continued American military operations in Afghanistan. The issue also included a tribute to Irving Kristol, the magazine's founder and a towering figure in American conservatism, who passed away in 2009 at age 89. The Kagans' strategic analysis of the Afghanistan conflict represented the magazine's ongoing engagement with the central foreign policy debates of the Obama administration's early years.