- Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- Staff Writer
Rajiv Chandrasekaran is a senior correspondent and associate editor. He was The Post’s national editor and has served as an assistant managing editor. He was bureau chief in Baghdad for the first two years of the Iraq war. He also has been a correspondent in Cairo and Southeast Asia. He the author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, a best-selling account of the troubled American effort to reconstruct Iraq. A graduate of Stanford University, he joined The Post in 1994 as a reporter on the metropolitan staff.
Inspector general’s report criticizes Afghanistan projects
The study calls into question a fundamental premise of the U.S. strategy to counter the Taliban insurgency — that expensive new roads and power plants can be funded and constructed quickly enough to help turn the tide of war.
War at home over war in Afghanistan
Infighting in the Obama administration exacted a staggering cost: The White House failed to aggressively explore negotiations to end the war when it had the most boots on the battlefield.
Book excerpt: Obama’s troop increase for Afghan war was misdirected
Decision to send most of surge forces to Helmand province instead of Kandahar revealed dysfunction.
- The triage commander: Gen. John Allen hastily transforming U.S. mission in Afghanistan
- Analysis: Crisis over Afghan killings may follow familiar script
- Anthony Shadid, the ‘most gifted foreign correspondent in a generation’
- Finding a Butterball in Baghdad: Rajiv Chandrasekaran recalls a wartime holiday
- In Afghanistan’s Garmser district, praise for a U.S. official’s tireless work
- In Afghanistan, the rise and fall of ‘Little America’
- As drawdown approaches, U.S. commanders in Afghanistan reluctant to leave
- Ahmed Wali Karzai had rebuilt relationship with U.S.
