Tag: Afghanistan

USA/Afghanistan – DOD IG Issues Guidance for Removing Sensitive Tech and Data from Afghanistan (Nextgov)

Brandi Vincent The U.S. military must take deliberate steps to ensure that records are kept and sensitive data is protected or removed from the equipment...

Afghanistan/USA – How the Afghan Army Collapsed Under the Taliban’s Pressure (CFR)

Max Boot A reporter asked U.S. President Joe Biden in July whether a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was inevitable. “No, it is not,” he said, pointing to...

USA/Afghanistan – Why Joe Biden’s Afghanistan speech was a disaster (AEI)

Michael Rubin President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the unfolding tragedy in Afghanistan. He was unrepentant. “I Do Not Regret My Decision,” he declared. His speech...

Afghanistan/UK – Afghanistan and the UK’s Illusion of Strategy (RUSI)

Main Image Credit Former US President George W Bush and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair at a joint news conference in 2002. Courtesy of...

Afghanistan/USA – The Case for Expediting Special Immigrant Visas amid a Transition of Power in Afghanistan (CSIS)

Daniel F. Runde, Elena Mendez Leal Following nearly 20 years of war in Afghanistan with a cost of more than $2 trillion and 241,000 lives lost, the...

Afghanistan – The Reasons for the Collapse of Afghan Forces (CSIS)

Anthony H. Cordesman The sudden collapse of the Afghan central government and the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) has occurred with stunning speed....

Afghanistan/USA – Biden: ‘I Stand Squarely Behind My Decision’ on Afghanistan (Defense One)

Jacqueline Feldscher President Joe Biden said Monday that he did not regret withdrawing all American forces from Afghanistan despite “gut-wrenching” scenes of the Taliban taking...

Afghanistan – You Can’t Buy a Cause. Examining the roots of the Afghanistan forces’ collapse (Defense One)

Mark Kimmitt The rout of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, or ANDSF, will go down in history as one of the greatest military...

Afghanistan/USA – A Moment for Soul-Searching (Defense One)

Eliot A. Cohen My Afghanistan war lasted almost exactly two years, from the beginning of 2007 to the end of the Bush administration in January...

Afghanistan/USA – The 1 Thing That Could’ve Changed the War in Afghanistan (Defense One)

David Frum Had the United States caught and killed Osama bin Laden in December 2001, the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan would have faded away...

Afghanistan – Satellite photos show chaos in Afghanistan exit (Defense News)

Nathan Strout New satellite images show a chaotic scene Monday at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan as the United States government and its allies...

Afghanistan/USA – Around the halls: The Taliban retakes Afghanistan (Brookings)

Madiha Afzal, Ranj Alaaldin, Daniel L. Byman, Giovanna De Maio, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Marvin Kalb, Suzanne Maloney, Patrick W. Quirk, Itamar Rabinovich, Douglas A. Rediker, Bruce Riedel, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Shibley Telhami Nearly 20 years after...

Afghanistan/USA – America’s Withdrawal of Choice (Project-Syndicate)

RICHARD HAASS The swift fall of Kabul recalls the ignominious fall of Saigon in 1975. Beyond the local consequences – widespread reprisals, harsh repression of...

Afghanistan – Experts react: The Taliban has taken Kabul. Now what? (Atlantic Council)

Andrew L. Peek, Kirsten Fontenrose, Irfan Nooruddin, James B. Cunningham, Barry Pavel, Christopher Preble, William F. Wechsler, Evanna Hu, Daniel Fried, Nathan Sales, Arun Iyer, C. Anthony Pfaff, Jennifer A. Counter The Taliban has completed its lightning...

Afghanistan – How the Taliban did it: Inside the ‘operational art’ of its military victory (Atlantic Council)

Benjamin Jensen The Taliban are in Kabul and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has left the country. How exactly did the militant group do it? Understanding how the...

Afghanistan/Central Asia – The Afghan Threat to Central Asia (Valdai Discussion Club)

Khudoberdi Kholiknazar Many experts on Afghanistan argue that without the permission of the Taliban, such extremist and terrorist groups will not violate the borders of the CIS member...