Militancy and conflict across the FATA and NWFP / by Brian Fishman -- Al-Qaeda's allies: explaining the relationship between al-Qaeda and various factions of the Taliban after 2001 / by Anne Stenersen -- North Waziristan / by Mansur Khan Mahsud, Anand Gopal, and Brian Fishman -- South Waziristan / by Mansur Khan Mahsud -- Pakistan's coin flip: the recent history of Pakistani military counterinsurgency operations in the NWFP and FATA / by Sameer Lalwani -- Drone strikes in Pakistan / by Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland -- My drone war / by Pir Zubair Shah -- FATA poll / by Peter Bergen, Patrick Doherty, and Ken Ballen -- Inside Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province: the changing political landscape / by Hassan Abbas -- Bajaur / by Rahmanullah -- The Swat Valley / by Daud Khattak -- Zabul and Uruzgan / by Martine van Bijlert -- Kandahar / by Anand Gopal -- Reconciliation / by Thomas Ruttig -- The 80 percent solution: the strategic defeat of bin Laden's al-Qaeda and implications for South Asian security / by Thomas F. Lynch III.