Role and place of Afghanistan in achieving geopolitical goals of the USA

The article is devoted to a currently acute topic of war in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which started in 2001 and has been going on till now. The main US approaches to the conducted antiterrorist campaign have been analyzed; the importance of the described region has been identified and grounded. Based on the analysis of the United States foreign policy course it is possible to identify the degree of the country’s involvement in the conflict. At the same time drawing on the facts the possible course development forecast is provided.