Tag: Afghanistan

America After Afghanistan (Hudson Institute)

Husain Haqqani In an interview on The Real Story on BBC, Husain Haqqani discusses the crisis in Afghanistan and what it could mean for U.S. allies. America...

The Afghan Tragedy Is China’s Opportunity (Hudson Institute)

Arthur Herman Images of the collapse of the Afghan government in Kabul bring back painful memories of a similar collapse in the wake of a...

‘Strategic confusion’ in Afghanistan (Center for Security Policy)

J. Michael Waller A new inspector general report eviscerates the entire 20-year U.S.-led reconstruction effort in Afghanistan, revealing a constant interagency rotation of “annual lobotomies,”...

What Comes Next? A Lesson from Saigon (Defense One)

Michael Desch An iconic photograph from the waning days of the Vietnam war now seems likely to be recreated in Kabul. In it, an Air...

Here’s How the US Could Get Afghanistan Evacuees to the United States More Quickly (Defense One)

Marcus Weisgerber The U.S. military is evaluating several options to fly American citizens and Afghans to the United States, according to U.S. officials. While the military...

NATO members’ Kabul evacuation battles bottlenecks outside the airport (Defense News)

Vivienne Machi NATO foreign ministers convened Friday afternoon via teleconference to discuss the situation in Afghanistan, which Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said remains “very difficult and...

After Afghanistan, where next? Biden must show resoluteness (Brookings)

Michael E. O’Hanlon With the tragedy of Afghanistan’s collapse mitigated only by the relative lack of violence in the process of the Taliban takeover to...

The Taliban takes Afghanistan (Brookings)

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Fred Dews On this episode, in the wake of the Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan, a discussion of the forces and issues that have...

Decoding intelligence on Afghanistan (The Interpreter)

BEN SCOTT Did the US intelligence community fail by not accurately predicting the speed and scale of the Taliban’s victory? A familiar blame game is now...

Evidence Destruction and the Crisis In Afghanistan (Just Security)

Nema Milaninia Afghan activists, journalists, and advocates for women’s rights scrambled to identify escape routes Sunday as international civil society organizations intensified a chaotic effort to evacuate...

Take Time to Judge Taliban’s Actions, Not Words (Just Security)

Lisa Curtis During their first week back in power, the Taliban leadership has gone to great lengths to show the world their movement has evolved...

Expert Backgrounder: How Can The Taliban Be Prevented From Representing Afghanistan In The United Nations? (Just Security)

Larry D. Johnson To repeat a common phrase, there are some things we know we know and there are some things we know we don’t...

CIA’s Former Counterterrorism Chief for the Region: Afghanistan, Not An Intelligence Failure — Something Much Worse (Just Security)

Douglas London While it’s certainly convenient to depict the shock and miscalculation U.S. officials claim over Afghanistan’s tragic, rapid fall to the Taliban as an...

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Secure Afghan Users’ Accounts Amid Taliban Takeover (VoA)

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn said this week they had moved to secure the accounts of Afghan citizens to protect them against being targeted amid...

Biden Seeks to Weather Afghan Withdrawal Storm (VoA)

Patsy Widakuswara U.S. President Joe Biden remains defiant in the middle of a political storm triggered by the swift Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and chaotic...

Special Immigrant Visas for the United States’ Afghan Allies: Lessons Learned from Promises Kept and Broken (Lawfare)

Anoush Baghdassarian, Todd Carney As thousands of Afghans rushed to the Kabul airport to flee the country out of a palpable fear of what Taliban rule...