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Gil Barndollar

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Global Crises

Will Joe Biden really end our forever wars?

The Afghanistan withdrawal should be just the first step in a wider push to draw down the US military presence in the greater Middle East.

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Asia-Pacific

How a 'rapid withdrawal' from Afghanistan is logistically possible

Could is not should, of course, but those who say a full pullout within weeks can't be done are wrong.

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Washington Politics

Grading Trump’s foreign policy

For realists and restrainers, November 8, 2016 was the high point. Since then, Trump’s foreign policy has been mostly conventional Republican, with an extra dollop of incompetence and chaos.