Tag: Afghanistan

USA/Afghanistan – The Americans May Leave Afghanistan, but the Forever War Will Grind On (RUSI)

Nick Reynolds Joe Biden may be withdrawing US troops from the ground, but given the continuing threat of terrorism that will emanate from Afghanistan it...

USA/Afghanistan – The US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan is the right one (Brookings)

Vanda Felbab-Brown The Biden administration’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021 is a wise strategic choice that took significant...

(USA/Afghanistan) Withdrawing troops from Afghanistan: Biden’s unforced error puts America at risk (Brookings)

Madiha Afzal and Michael E. O’Hanlon President Biden’s decision to bring home all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is a major mistake. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/04/15/withdrawing-troops-from-afghanistan-bidens-unforced-error-puts-america-at-risk/

USA/Afghanistan – Afghanistan: Too Much Is Enough (CSIS)

Anthony H. Cordesman There is no good way that the U.S. can withdraw from Afghanistan. https://www.csis.org/analysis/afghanistan-too-much-enough

USA/Afghanistan – Leaving Afghanistan, twenty years later (Atlantic Council)

Barry Pavel, William F. Wechsler, Irfan Nooruddin Twenty years. America’s longest war is set to finally come to an end, with President Joe Biden expected to announce on...

USA/Afghanistan – Biden to order all US troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11 (Defense News)

Leo Shane III and Joe Gould President Joe Biden intends to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that started...

(USA/Afghanistan) Global Terror and the Taliban’s Return (Project-Syndicate)

BRAHMA CHELLANEY Far from offering America a face-saving exit from a 20-year war, a complete US military withdrawal from Afghanistan will make it an accomplice...

(Afghanistan) Afghan president proposes three-phase peace roadmap: Report (Al Jazeera)

Ashraf Ghani will put forward a three-phase peace roadmap for Afghanistan during a proposed meeting in Turkey, Reuters reports. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/5/afghan-leader-proposes-peace-road-map-in-three-phases-document

(USA/Afghanistan) Biden aims for the impossible in Afghanistan (Arab News)

HAFED AL-GHWELL A cursory examination of the emerging US policy on Afghanistan would probably conclude that the strategy to end a two decade-old, mostly fruitless,...

(USA/Afghanistan) Why can’t the US end the war in Afghanistan? (Al Jazeera)

Largely forgotten by Americans, this $50 billion per year campaign could literally become a ‘forever war’. https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2021/4/1/why-cant-the-us-end-the-war-in-afghanistan

(USA/Afghanistan) The many pitfalls of the new US proposal for Afghan peace (Al Jazeera)

Mohsin Dawar Biden administration’s new draft proposal fails to address many fundamental issues stalling the Afghan peace process. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/3/31/the-many-pitfalls-of-the-new-us-proposal-for-afghan-peace

(Afghanistan) The Hail Mary of power-sharing in Afghanistan (Brookings)

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Omar Sharifi Power-sharing with the Taliban is a concept at the heart of the Biden administration’s new strategy for Afghanistan, as it seeks the...

(USA/Afghanistan) ‘We Will Leave’ Afghanistan Likely This Year, Biden Declares (Defense One)

Kevin Baron But not by May 1. "It's not my intention to stay there for a long time, the question is how and under what...

(USA/Afghanistan) Why it is Biden’s call on the future of US troops in Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

William Roberts Congress passed laws after the 9/11 attacks giving US presidents power to use military force, but calls to restrict that authority are growing. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/24/why-it-is-bidens-call-on-the-future-of-us-troops-in-afghanistan

(USA/Afghanistan) US defence boss Austin meets Afghan president in unannounced trip (Al Jazeera)

Lloyd Austin and President Ashraf Ghani discuss Afghan peace process and rising violence, presidential palace in Kabul says. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/21/us-defence-chief-lloyd-austin-makes-unannounced-afghanistan-visit

(USA/Afghanistan) Americans are not unanimously war-weary on Afghanistan (Brookings)

Madiha Afzal and Israa Saber In debates on the future of the war in Afghanistan, policymakers and analysts have come to invoke it as a given that...