Christian Brose has an excellent piece on FP‘s Shadow Government blog running through some of what he took away from the Munich Security Conference vis-à-vis our situation in Afghanistan. Brose emphasizes first and foremost that the war in Afghanistan can still be won, but he cautions that the road ahead will be difficult and costly. Brose also acknowledges the weaknesses of Hamid Karzai, and the Obama administrations legitimate frustration with him, but he warns against allowing the relationship to become too antagonistic given Karzai’s rather solid grip on the reins there. Also interesting, Brose sees the possibility for a real confrontation between Obama and Petraeus over how best to proceed in developing a new strategy over the next 12 months. Brose writes:

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