Foreign Affairs, From Great Game to Grand Bargain -- Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan

The Great Game can no longer be treated as a sporting event for distant spectators. It is time to agree on some new rules.

Afghanistan has been at war for three decades -- a period longer than the one that started with World War I and ended with the Normandy landings on D-day in World War II -- and now that war is spreading to Pakistan and beyond.
From Great Game to Grand Bargain