Joshua Foust, author of Afghanistan Journal: Selections from Registan.net, is a blogger with a background in military analysis of post-Soviet Central Asia. His writing, which covers military affairs, geopolitics, and strategic energy issues, has appeared in the New York Times, Reuters, The Christian Science Monitor, and the Columbia Journalism Review. Foust was formerly a fellow at the American Security Project and a member of the Young Atlanticist Working Group.