‘The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War’

Craig Whitlock is an investigative reporter for the Washington Post. He has covered the global war on terrorism for the Post since 2001 as a foreign correspondent, Pentagon reporter, and national security specialist. In 2019, his coverage of the war in Afghanistan won the George Polk Award for Military Reporting, the Scripps Howard Award for Investigative Reporting, the Investigative Reporters and Editors Freedom of Information Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for international reporting. He has reported from more than sixty countries and is a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Spencer Bakich is a professor of international studies and the director of the National Security Program at the Virginia Military Institute and a senior fellow at the Miller Center. Specializing in strategic studies and American foreign policy, Bakich teaches courses in grand strategy, U.S. national security policy, U.S.-China relations, and strategy and cybersecurity. He is the author of Success and Failure in Limited War: Information and Strategy in the Korean, Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Iraq Wars.