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Can the United States build an army in a foreign country? Recent experience in Afghanistan suggests that the answer is a resounding “no,” and...
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Can the United States build an army in a foreign country? Recent experience in Afghanistan suggests that the answer is a resounding “no,” and...
With its relatively bloodless capture of Kabul and the disintegration of an Afghan army built, armed, and equipped by the United States to the...
As an avoidable and catastrophic human tragedy unfolds as U.S. government personnel and military forces leave Afghanistan, various analyses are using different yardsticks to...
Two decades after initiating an imperial policy designed by the Neoconservatives who had captured his administration, George W. Bush’s campaign to transform and democratize...
With the 20th anniversary of 9/11 almost here, I’m hoping someone in the Biden administration is giving some deep thought to the counterterrorism challenges we’ll likely face...
In the rarified atmosphere of Washington, the debacle unfolding in Afghanistan has led as much to questions of how China might exploit this as it has analysis and...
President Joe Biden and his team like to compare air operations to evacuate Americans and Afghans from Kabul’s international airport to the Berlin Airlift. ...
Just two months, President Joe Biden marched through Europe, repeatedly insisting that “America is back; America is engaged.” Our friends and allies wanted to...
The White House, State Department, and Pentagon leadership appear furious that two Congressmen–Democratic Representative Seth Moulton and Republican Representative Peter Meijer—visited Kabul’s International Airport...
The Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, a failed war in a region of little strategic interest to America, was entirely justified. Nevertheless, the move worried U.S....