Three major networks devoted a full five minutes to Afghanistan in 2020
It should be no surprise then, that Americans are shocked at the images of violence and the grim political situation on the ground today.
It should be no surprise then, that Americans are shocked at the images of violence and the grim political situation on the ground today.
But all bets are off if the United States starts rekindling a civil conflict there.
These members bucked their parties and risked alienation (and primaries), but stood their ground on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Our ability to manage the Middle East and Central Asia has reached a critical turning point in Afghanistan. We should heed that.
A move to allow direct participation in government has excluded significant numbers of the Qatar citizenry.
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.
The world watches as the Afghan government tragically teeters on the brink and America reflects on its failed policies there.
Rejoining the JCPOA was a comparatively straightforward task which is taking too much time and effort to complete.
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.
The Biden administration must address this strategically or there will be nothing left of the ‘global order’ as we know it.
Major Emirati-funded DC policy organizations have said remarkably little about the country’s illicit influence.
He was a colleague and a principled truth-teller during an era of war, hubris, and Beltway banditry.
With no end in sight and violence under the radar but ongoing, this is one ‘forever war’ that Biden risks perpetuating.
A new GAO report finds gaping holes in oversight in the military’s unwieldy private security contractor biz.
The US has a bad habit of acquiring clients and partners and exaggerating their importance to justify continued entanglements.
Unlike primacists, this ‘coalition’ actually embraces an internationalism that respects the rule of law, and diplomacy.
US domestic politics are overshadowing multiple crises on the island nation, which only prolongs the suffering of the Cuban people.
An essay aimed at taking down the ‘Quincy coalition’ and restraint has revealed the true face of global hegemony.
Former Air Force analyst Daniel Hale is going to jail for revealing the extent to which US drones kill civilians.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin inadvertently introduced a conversation about where European powers should focus their security priorities.