New report estimates $2.5 trillion for post-9/11 war vets care
The findings come amid calls in Washington for the US to remain in Afghanistan indefinitely.
The findings come amid calls in Washington for the US to remain in Afghanistan indefinitely.
These members bucked their parties and risked alienation (and primaries), but stood their ground on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
The reconstruction was largely a failure that could have been avoided, and SIGAR said this all along. Was anyone listening?
And how seeing its origins in Cold War geopolitics can help us avoid future disasters.
Our ability to manage the Middle East and Central Asia has reached a critical turning point in Afghanistan. We should heed that.
China, India, Iran, and Pakistan will be forced to begin a new game of multidimensional economic chess.
H.R. McMaster and other apologists for the failed policy in Afghanistan would like us to focus on anything but their complicity in it today.
There are too many careers and too much money tied to American power projection. So expect it to shift, not recede from the stage.
There will likely be a return to a much more historically normal state of global affairs in which multiple players are engaged.
The world watches as the Afghan government tragically teeters on the brink and America reflects on its failed policies there.
Cities are falling to the Taliban at a rapid pace, but the conditions for failure were set long before the US troop withdrawal this summer.
Not only would this be the “Saigon moment” Biden is trying to avoid, it would signal a full-scale diplomatic abandonment of Afghanistan.
George W. Bush, the architect of our 9/11 wars, is trying to tell us how to think and feel about the Afghanistan withdrawal.
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.
Afghanistan could emerge as a venue for Middle Eastern rivalries involving not only Saudi Arabia and Iran, but also Turkey and Qatar.
Unfortunately it’s no surprise the White House hasn’t even remarked, much less justified recent actions in Afghanistan and Somalia.
How do Russia, Pakistan, China, Iran and India view what seems to be an inevitable Taliban rise? A regional expert weighs in.
Despite years of policy and rhetoric designed to reproach Moscow, Washington now needs help containing the Taliban.
Recent months have not been necessarily kind to Chinese aspirations of remaining aloof to conflict beyond its borders.
Expect the military officials who commanded Afghanistan to invoke ‘cutting and running.’ Let’s talk about why they failed.
The War on Terror-era neocon is at it again, scolding America for withdrawing from Afghanistan and advocating we stay in the game.