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From hubris to humiliation: America’s warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project
In The News
Twenty years ago, when the twin towers and the Pentagon were still smoldering, there was a sense among America’s warrior and diplomatic class that history was starting anew fo...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Taliban Sweep in Afghanistan Follows Years of U.S. Miscalculations
In The News
President Biden’s top advisers concede they were stunned by the rapid collapse of the Afghan army in the face of an aggressive, well-planned offensive by the Taliban that now ...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS Responds: The Deteriorating Situation in Afghanistan, Two Weeks from Drawdown Deadline
Press Note
The Taliban is gaining large swaths of territory, the Pentagon is moving troops in to evacuate U.S. embassy staff from Kabul, and thousands of Afghan special visa applicants a...
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'This got bungled': Biden’s two tragic Afghanistan missteps
In The News
As NatSec Daily talks to our contacts, we’re hearing two nuanced critiques of President JOE BIDEN and the quickly spiraling situation in Afghanistan. First: While the decision...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden has wanted the U.S. to pull the plug on Afghanistan for years. Doing it has consequences.
In The News
Last month, President Biden vowed that his decision to pull American forces out of Afghanistan would never end in a repeat of the infamous helicopter evacuation from the U.S. ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden Delivers on Trump’s Afghan Exit as Taliban Nears Control
In The News
Donald Trump made the politically popular pledge to bring U.S. troops home from the nation’s longest war. Now Joe Biden is delivering on the promise -- and reaping growing cri...
By Richard Fontaine
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Inside the Biden administration as Afghanistan collapses
In The News
Lisa Curtis, a former senior NSC official who sat alongside Khalilzad during the Trump administration's negotiations with the Taliban, called on the Biden administration to "e...
By Lisa Curtis
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Speed of Taliban Advance Surprises Biden Administration, Dismays U.S. Allies
When President Biden this spring announced the decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, his administration expected the Afghan military to defend key cities and perh...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden on Afghanistan: Not my problem
In The News
As the Taliban blitz across Afghanistan and U.S. officials scramble to assess just how quickly the government in Kabul could fall, President Joe Biden is recalibrating his mes...
By Lisa Curtis
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Taliban Advances in Afghanistan Could Bring Political Peril for Biden
In The News
When President Biden announced his plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the politics seemed relatively simple: Many polls showed that Americans supported ending the ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Report: China Is Hacking Russia, Too
Much has been made about the emerging relationship between China and Russia, two countries that the National Defense Strategy recognizes as near-peer competitors to the United...
By Samuel Bendett
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It’s unforgivable to hold the Olympics in Beijing
In The News
It was a forgivable mistake to award an Olympics to Beijing in 2008. It’s unforgivable to hold one there now. If you want a world pocked by concentration camps, in which Xi Ji...
By David Feith
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Immigration Defines Homeland Security Chief as He Thinks Bigger
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Alejandro Mayorkas leads a sprawling department tasked with keeping the U.S. safe from cyberattacks, domestic terrorism, natural disasters, and other looming threats. But crit...
By Carrie Cordero
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Europe was the world’s great tech enforcer. Not anymore.
In The News
When it comes to taking on Big Tech, there are new sheriffs in town: Beijing and Washington. From enacting the world’s strictest privacy law to placing guardrails against the ...
By Martijn Rasser
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The End of Exorbitant Privilege: Inflation, the Global Dollar and What Comes Next
This year has been rife with anxiety about inflation. Economist Lawrence Summers sent up an early warning flare in March, speculating that debt-financed government coronavirus...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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Christian Strain Joins CNAS Board of Advisors
Washington, August 4, 2021—The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) welcomes Christian Strain, Managing Director at the growth equity firm Summit Partners, to its Board o...
By Christian Strain
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Should Chinese Bitcoin miners move to the world and the United States should welcome it with open arms?
In The News
Since May this year, the Chinese government has severely cracked down on Bitcoin trading and mining, causing Bitcoin miners to have to look elsewhere. Including the states of ...
By Yaya J. Fanusie
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China reportedly converted civilian ferries for amphibious assault operations
China has converted civilian ferries for use in military amphibious operations, potentially enabling the country to significantly surge its amphibious assault capabilities in ...
By Tom Shugart
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Bionic arms and blue-eyed bots: How Russia aims to nurture a tech hub in its Far East
In The News
To see Russia’s ambitions for its own version of Silicon Valley, head about 5,600 miles east of Moscow, snake through Vladivostok’s hills and then cross a bridge from the main...
By Jeffrey Edmonds
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As Biden Prepares to Finally Leave, Iraq Faces a New 'Existential Crisis'
In The News
The headlines coming out of U.S. President Joe Biden’s meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi last week were about the largely symbolic decision to end America’s...
By Rachel Ziemba
