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The Next Fight: Time for a Change of Mission in Afghanistan
Type of Publication: Policy BriefDate: 12/05/2011| more |CNAS authors Lieutenant General David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Dr. Andrew Exum and Matthew Irvine call for a change of mission in Afghanistan with the 2014 transition looming. Listen to a briefing on the report here.
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2014 and Beyond: U.S. Policy Towards Afghanistan and Pakistan
Type of Publication: Congressional TestimonyDate: 11/03/2011| more |On November 3rd, CNAS Senior Fellow David Barno testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia. His testimony drew from a recently completed seven-day trip to Afghanistan and updated the perspective he had offered in previous testimonies on the current situation in Afghanistan and the road ahead.
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Beyond Afghanistan: A Regional Security Strategy for South and Central Asia
Type of Publication: ReportDate: 05/25/2011The United States is at a strategic inflection point in South and Central Asia. The death of Osama bin Laden, together with the projected transition to a smaller U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, presents a new opportunity for the United States to protect its enduring interests in the region. In Beyond Afghanistan: A Regional Security Strategy for South and Central Asia, authors Lieutenant General David W. Barno, USA (Ret.), Andrew Exum and Matthew Irvine identify key priorities for the United States and the key components of a regional strategy in light of fast-changing current events.
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Responsible Transition: Securing U.S. Interests in Afghanistan Beyond 2011
Type of Publication: ReportDate: 12/07/2010This report, authored by CNAS Senior Advisor and Senior Fellow Lieutenant General David Barno and Fellow Andrew Exum, lays out a strategy for the post-July 2011 phase of U.S. and NATO efforts in Afghanistan, defines the U.S. troop presence and commitment beyond 2014, and offers operational and strategic guidance for protecting U.S. and allied long-term interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Afghanistan’s Willing Entrepreneurs: Supporting Private-Sector Growth in the Afghan Economy
Author(s): Erik Malmstrom, Jake CusackType of Publication: Policy BriefDate: 11/22/2010Despite ongoing security challenges, the Afghan private sector has enormous opportunity for development and growth and will be a significant determinant to long-term stability in the country, according to the Voices from the Field policy brief Afghanistan’s Willing Entrepreneurs: Supporting Private-Sector Growth in the Afghan Economy. Authors Jake Cusack and Erik Malmstrom are Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans and graduate fellows at Harvard's Kennedy and Business School.
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Counterinsurgency and the Future of NATO
Author(s): Dr. John A. Nagl, Dr. Richard WeitzType of Publication: Working PapersDate: 10/01/2010In this first working paper produced by The Transatlantic Paper Series, CNAS President John Nagl and Non-Resident Senior Fellow Richard Weitz evaluate how NATO can best implement counterinsurgency in Afghanistan.
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Perspectives on Reconciliation Options in Afghanistan
Author(s):Type of Publication: Congressional TestimonyDate: 07/27/2010CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow David Kilcullen testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the options for reconciliation in Afghanistan. Kilcullen’s testimony focused on stabilization issues within Afghanistan, including corruption, international aid and the drug trade.
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Leverage: Designing a Political Campaign for Afghanistan
Author(s): Dr. Andrew M. ExumType of Publication: ReportDate: 05/06/2010This report notes that America's counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan has focused more on waging war at the operational and tactical levels at the expense of the strategic and political levels and offers recommendations to design an effective political campaign.
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The Economic Imperative: Stabilizing Afghanistan Through Economic Growth
Author(s):Type of Publication: Policy BriefDate: 04/12/2010This policy brief argues that smart execution of the American strategy in Afghanistan depends on tapping into Afghanistan’s economic potential and empowering Afghans to foster economic development in their own country.
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Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan
Type of Publication: Working PapersDate: 01/04/2010This report critically examines the relevance of the U.S. intelligence community to the counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan and provides a blueprint for how the United States can make the intelligence community more relevant to the current mission.
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Counterinsurgency and Afghanistan: Experiences, Strategies and Perspectives
Date:
February 17, 2012
11:00am - 12:00pm
Location:
The Willard InterContinental Hotel's Crystal Room
1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20004
The future of European security policy is rapidly becoming a critical issue in the world. Facing transition in the NATO-led war in Afghanistan and rising budget pressures, the strategic direction of NATO and its member states is hotly debated. On February 17, the Center for a New American Security and the University of Kiel's ISPK hosted Dr. Thomas de Maizière, Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany, for a public address titled “Counterinsurgency and Afghanistan: Experiences, Strategies and Perspectives.” Dr. de Maizière’s address was followed by a question and answer session chaired by Dr. John A. Nagl, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow.
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Dr. John A. Nagl
Non-Resident Senior FellowDr. John Nagl is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security and the Minerva Research Fellow at the U.S. Naval Academy as part of the Department of Defense Minerva Initiative program. He was previously the President of CNAS. He is also a member of the Defense Policy Board, a Visiting Professor in the War Studies Department at Kings College of London, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies. Dr.
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CNAS explores strategies for combating terrorism, violent extremism, and various approaches for tackling the significant challenges posed by insurgencies and irregular warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan and across the globe.
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Military Personnel
The U.S. strategic environment has changed radically since the end of World War II, yet American military personnel policies have largely gone unchanged for several decades. CNAS’ military personnel project will provide a long overdue reexamination of these policies. Military personnel policies profoundly affect service members’ decisions about joining and leaving the military, as well as the career paths that they choose to follow.
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South and Central Asia
The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) has worked on issues related to U.S. policy toward Central and South Asia since 2007. In 2010, CNAS completed a year-long project called Beyond Afghanistan project that examined U.S. interests in the region after the war in Afghanistan. CNAS also recently completed a report on the relationship between the United States and India. The aim of CNAS researchers is to combine our years spent working in the region with methodologically rigorous research to arrive at realistic options for U.S. policy makers.
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CNAS examines the force structure, roles, missions, and overall health and wellness of America's military in order to help ensure our forces are prepared for the demands of 21st century conflict.
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