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What The Exit From Afghanistan Tells Us About How Biden Sees The World
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In January 2002, when the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan reopened for the first time since 1989, Ambassador Ryan Crocker said the first member of Congress to visit him in Kabul w...
By Richard Fontaine
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Three ways the victory of the Taliban might reverberate around the world
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World leaders are racing to evacuate their citizens from Afghanistan after the Taliban’s lightning takeover last week — but the impact of the Islamist militants’ control will ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Economic Crisis Looms for Afghanistan Under Taliban Rule
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As the Taliban take power in Afghanistan for the first time in 20 years, Afghans face not only a humanitarian crisis but also an economic crisis that threatens to make an alre...
By Alex Zerden
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
‘No One Quite Knows What to Say’: A War Easily Ignored Ends With Few AnswersAt the main gate of this busy Army post is a sandstone slab etched with the names of Fort Carson soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The slab ran out of room for names in...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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National Security Human Capital
Vaccine resistance in the military remains strong, a dilemma for Pentagon as mandate loomsThe Pentagon’s effort to mandate coronavirus vaccination for all 1.3 million active-duty service members will continue to face resistance from a segment of the force, troops a...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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National Security Human Capital
Nebraska veterans, Gold Star families grapple with how Afghanistan War is endingBarb Yllescas-Vorthmann cried tears of grief a dozen years ago when a bomb on a bridge in a remote corner of Afghanistan fatally wounded her son, Capt. Rob Yllescas. He left b...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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National Security Human Capital
What Corporate America Can Learn From the Navy’s Vaccine CampaignThe corporate world may want to take a page out of the U.S. Navy’s manual when it comes to boosting workforce Covid-19 vaccination rates. The Navy is the pride of the U.S. mi...
By Katherine L. Kuzminski
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The shipping supply chain is stressed from Covid. That makes it ripe for hackers.
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The global supply chain, where goods are shipped all over the world, is already stretched thin thanks to a year and a half of operating during a pandemic. It really doesn’t ne...
By Dr. Nina Kollars
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Was Biden handcuffed by Trump’s Taliban deal in Doha?
As President Donald Trump’s administration signed a peace deal with the Taliban in February 2020, he optimistically proclaimed that “we think we’ll be successful in the end.” ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Desperate Afghan Women Wait for U.S. Protection, as Promised
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Even as they cling to hope of being rescued by the American government, Afghan women who worked with the United States over the past 20 years are destroying any hint of that a...
By Lisa Curtis
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
Vets see many US failures in Kabul. Military intelligence is just one.While the fall of Kabul to Taliban forces this week produced image after image of heartbreak as Afghans clung to cargo planes and women tried to lift babies over airport barri...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
Afghan war vets sound off on U.S. withdrawal, Taliban’s return to powerWhen the Taliban swept across Afghanistan as if the central government didn't even exist, it was almost like an erasure of history. Twenty years of war cast aside, as if none ...
By Paul Scharre
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Afghanistan's fall renews terrorism fears for US
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The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban has raised fears that terrorist groups capable of threatening the U.S. homeland will thrive anew amid the chaos. U.S. military officials...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
Afghanistan collapse into Taliban rule devastates Wisconsin veterans, human rights advocatesMore than 2,300 Americans lost their lives and another 20,000 were wounded in the 20-year, $2 trillion war in Afghanistan. And in just days, the country was taken over by the ...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Can America Still Help Afghanistan? 8 Former Officials on What’s Next.
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With the Taliban’s takeover, many Afghans have expressed deep feelings of betrayal by the United States for leaving Afghanistan behind in a dangerous and uncertain new phase. ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Was the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan inevitable?
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The swift collapse of the Afghan government has reinforced US President Joe Biden’s argument that nothing more could have been done. But was the Taliban’s victory inevitable? ...
By Richard Fontaine
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West faces wrenching choice on dealing with Taliban
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After two decades trying to destroy the Taliban, Western powers face the wrenching decision of whether to deal with the Islamist insurgents who have taken over Afghanistan. Th...
By Lisa Curtis
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Cutting the Taliban off from global trade could be a tall order
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The head of Afghanistan’s central bank has fled the country. The U.S. has cut off the central bank’s access to reserves held here and may end up taking other steps to isolate ...
By Rachel Ziemba
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Biden faces lasting blemish from Afghanistan exit
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President Biden is facing criticism over his administration’s withdrawal from the two-decade conflict in Afghanistan that could leave a lasting blemish on his presidency. Bide...
By Richard Fontaine
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital
Biden’s ‘America’s Back’ Vow Torched as Taliban Storm KabulJust last month President Joe Biden defended his Afghanistan pullout by saying that “the likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
