Governments find it easier to sugar-coat their strategic failures than confront them head-on -- deferring taking responsibility, failing to recognise mistakes, ignoring hard lessons.

Drone Wars UK says it is Kafkaesque of the MoD to claim only four civilians have been killed in UK drone strikes while insisting they do not know how many people have been killed.

According to Pentagon statistics, the 154 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 155 days of 2012 far outdistance the US forces killed in action in Afghanistan — about 50 per cent more.

If Hillary Clinton and other world leaders are on the side of Afghan women, they should not support the war and the leaders who are actively engaged in violating women's rights.

NATO is an anachronism. Instead of trying to bolster the organization, we should begin serious discussions to dismantle it.

The NATO conference will be nothing but spin to hide the facts: the war in Afghanistan is lost, the only purpose now is to save the face of the warmongers who started it.

No wonder most Americans want out of Afghanistan: since the Obama troop "surge" in Afghanistan three years ago, it's been one fiasco, embarrassment, or atrocity after the other.

The protesters remind us that the US government is not representative of the US people. It's encouraging to see so many willing to stand up against this unjust, disastrous war in Afghanistan.

The only answer which the US and its allies have to failing wars is to keep pouring money into them and hope for the best, says Stop the War's convenor Lindsey German.

The only solution now is to get out – now, not in 2014. And completely, not with thousands of troops continuing to occupy Afghanistan through 2014 and beyond. Get Out. Now.

Obama and Karzai signed a treaty for more years of war in Afghanistan, just like in Iraq -- the difference being that, the Afghan deal doesn't include an end date.

Ex-soldier Joe Glenton thinks that concientious objection to the war in Afghanistan is not only a soldier's right but a moral obligation.

I’m being sent out to stabilise a country I have no faith, interest or empathy in, to prop up a government the UN says is corrupt, in a war of choice already lost halfway across the world.

After a decade of war and the expenditure of over $450 billion, Afghanistan is a less secure place than it was after the 2001 invasion.

Demonstrations on Saturday 19 May across the world can be a focus for building a renewed movement to get the troops out of Afghanistan and reflect majority public opinion which opposes the war.

Career soldier Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Davis is now a black sheep for his decision to accuse America's military top brass of lying about the war in Afghanistan.