Carter Malkasian (born 1975) is an American historian and the chair of the defense analysis department at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Malkasian earned a doctorate in military history from the University of Oxford,[1] where he studied under Robert O'Neill.
[3] From May 2013 to August 2014, he worked as a political adviser to General Joseph Dunford, the commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
[4] In 2013, Malkasian published War Comes to Garmser: Thirty Years of Conflict on the Afghan Frontier.
[6] The American War in Afghanistan: A History (2021) is a comprehensive history of the war, arguing that one of the primary reasons for the Taliban's success was their deep connection to the religious and social identity of Afghanistan,[7] and that the inability of the American-supported Afghan government to attract popular support and retain control of the country[8] was due to Afghans’ viewing the American military as a foreign occupying power, writing, “The very presence of Americans in Afghanistan trod on what it meant to be Afghan.