Carl Forsberg is a research analyst at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), where he focuses on the security dynamics and politics of Southern Afghanistan. Mr. Forsberg is the author of two reports on Kandahar Province, The Taliban's Campaign for Kandahar and Politics and Power in Kandahar. He also co-authored “The Quetta Shura Taliban in Southern Afghanistan” with ISW analyst Jeff Dressler and “Consolidating Private Security Companies in Southern Afghanistan,” with ISW President Kimberly Kagan.

Mr. Forsberg has commented on Afghanistan for NPR, the Economist, The Financial Times, and Voice of America, in addition to other American, British, and Canadian media outlets. While at ISW he has presented on Afghanistan to the Pentagon’s Afghanistan-Pakistan Federated Forum, the U.S. Special Operations Command, the Government of Canada, Air Force Intelligence, and the Joint IED Defeat Organization. He has also testified before Congress on the counterinsurgency implications of contracting practices in Afghanistan.

Before coming to ISW, Mr. Forsberg worked at the Marine Corps Intelligence Headquarters and for the Ugandan State Minister for Disaster Relief and Refugees in Kampala, Uganda. He holds a Bachelors Degree in history from Yale University and has studied the Persian language.