Joseph E. FALLON, PhD

In Afghanistan, history is a causal loop where “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” This is a result of its strategic location in Eurasia as the hub linking East Asia to South Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Geopolitics has insured that for two centuries Afghanistan remains a pawn in “the Great Game” that never-ending cycle of plots, plans, and ploys by which outside powers “contest for mastery in Central Asia”¹ through “risk, chance, and deception.”²