August 23, 2021
Biden is getting attacked on all sides for putting its ‘credibility’ on the Taiwan issue at risk. Will he cave to it?
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August 23, 2021
One expert’s recent claim that ‘nobody is killed’ when indiscriminate sanctions become economic warfare flies in the face of all evidence.
August 22, 2021
Unfortunately the international alliance isn’t asking the right questions about its own complicity in the failed war.
August 20, 2021
Selective accountability on failed US foreign policy is a feature of Washington.
August 20, 2021
It should be no surprise then, that Americans are shocked at the images of violence and the grim political situation on the ground today.
August 20, 2021
But poverty, climate stress, and instability make the people who live there, and the strength of any new government, vulnerable.
August 20, 2021
In new book, Spencer Ackerman shows how the post-9/11 Global War on Terror gave us neither the peace or stability it promised.
August 20, 2021
Washington elites are rightly horrified by the Taliban’s swift takeover, but more troops and more time wouldn’t have made a difference.
August 19, 2021
Now is not the time for bureaucracy or delay. The United States will only get one opportunity to get this right.
August 19, 2021
The former general joins a chorus of calls to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely with broad assumptions that there will be no costs.
August 19, 2021
But all bets are off if the United States starts rekindling a civil conflict there.
August 19, 2021
Congress has abdicated its constitutional role, helping mire the US in endless conflicts around the world.
August 18, 2021
When the US military was done using the Sunni ‘Sons of Iraq’ they literally turned their iris scans over to the Shia government.
August 18, 2021
The findings come amid calls in Washington for the US to remain in Afghanistan indefinitely.
August 18, 2021
These members bucked their parties and risked alienation (and primaries), but stood their ground on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
August 18, 2021
Afghanistan is not the first time that a regime dramatically collapsed once America withdrew its military support.
August 17, 2021
The reconstruction was largely a failure that could have been avoided, and SIGAR said this all along. Was anyone listening?
August 17, 2021
And how seeing its origins in Cold War geopolitics can help us avoid future disasters.
August 17, 2021
Our ability to manage the Middle East and Central Asia has reached a critical turning point in Afghanistan. We should heed that.
August 17, 2021
China, India, Iran, and Pakistan will be forced to begin a new game of multidimensional economic chess.
August 17, 2021
Ebrahim Raisi promised to create jobs, but it may take more than simply rejoining the JCPOA to do it.