Are American and NATO forces in the process of repeating the Soviet experience? The military lessons of Afghanistan.

Mercedes Stephenson is host of the national, weekly, current affairs series MSI (Mercedes Stephenson Investigates). She's also vice president of the Breakout Educational Network, a registered, non-profit, charitable foundation.

Graeme Smith served as the lead Afghanistan correspondent with The Globe and Mail from 2006 to 2009. He is now on leave, working on a book about the conflict to be published in Canada by Knopf.

Roland Paris is University Research Chair in International Security and Governance at the University of Ottawa. He is also the founding director of the Centre for International Policy Studies at the University, and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

Robert Killebrew is a retired U.S. Army officer with thirty years of service in command and staff assignments. Since retiring, Killebrew has been a private consultant for a number of U.S. governmental agencies and for civilian industry.

J Alexander Thier is Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the US Institute of Peace and chair of the Institute’s Afghanistan and Pakistan Working Groups.

Alan Echenberg is a senior producer for the Agenda with Steve Paikin and has been TVO's Ottawa bureau chief since 1998. In his fifteen seasons in the Parliament Hill bureau of TVO, he has produced dozens of field documentaries and hundreds of studio interviews and discussions. He's covered five federal elections, one referendum, one ice storm, one Grey Cup, one Alanis Morissette concert, one hot-air balloon festival, several playoff collapses by the Ottawa Senators, and many other stories. Somewhere in there, his efforts on one particular show helped win TVO a Gemini Award. Follow Alan on Twitter.

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Doctor, Bioethicist and Author Peter Singer and the lives Canadians can save in the developing world.

Peter Singer is the CEO of Grand Challenges Canada and professor of medicine, chair in bioethics and director at the McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health, University Health Network and University of Toronto.

Stavros Rougas is an associate producer on The Agenda with Steve Paikin. He formerly worked at CBC Television and has studied at Université Laval, The University of Western Ontario and Sheridan College. Stavros has an insatiable curiosity for international politics as well as an interest in urban issues. Follow Stavros on Twitter.

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