Veteran news broadcaster Sandy Gall interviewed more than 100 Afghan politicians, business people, ordinary people, and British, American and European diplomats and soldiers in pursuit of the truth about what has gone wrong in Afghanistan for his book War Against the Taliban: Why it All Went Wrong in Afghanistan. He throws fresh light on the failure to capture Osama Bin Laden and on US and British gullibility over Pakistan.

In Ghosts of Afghanistan: The Haunted Battleground, journalist and author Jonathan Steele places the recent Afghan conflict in the context of the Soviet war in Afghanistan and British imperial wars in the region. Steele is a former Washington bureau chief, Moscow bureau chief, and chief foreign correspondent for The Guardian. He is now a columnist for the newspaper on international affairs.

Together, Gall and Steele discuss what went wrong in Afghanistan and look at what the future holds for the troubled country.