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America is reliable, Harris tells allies eyeing Afghan chaos
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Vice President Kamala Harris sought to portray Washington as a reliable counterweight to China as the administration faces questions over its commitment to long-term partners ...
By Jacob Stokes
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Afghanistan chaos tests Democrats’ opposition to US military intervention
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“Now that America’s participation [in Afghanistan] is ending on such a negative note, there may well be a rethinking of the balance between US action and non-intervention,” Ri...
By Richard Fontaine
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Defense / Indo-Pacific Security
To Invade Taiwan, The Chinese Navy Could Mobilize The World’s Biggest Transport FleetThe Chinese navy now has access to 1.5 million tons of shipping that could carry an assault force across the Taiwan Strait and initiate an invasion of Taiwan. For those of you...
By Tom Shugart
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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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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
‘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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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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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
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 Program
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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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
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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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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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
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
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How Biden and Trump caused Afghanistan catastrophe
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President Biden's most senior advisers say there were stunned at the way Taliban fighters were able to advance across Afghanistan while government forces melted away or simply...
By Lisa Curtis
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
He spent his adult life helping U.S. soldiers. Now, he’s desperately fleeing Afghanistan.The voice on the phone from Kandahar Airfield sounded exhausted and resigned, as if not much hope was left. Lt. Col. Mohammad Iqbal Nuristani had managed to get the bulk of hi...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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America's longest war: 20 years of missteps in Afghanistan
America's longest war is nearing its end, with a loss to the enemy it defeated in Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago, shock that the government and military it supported collapse...
By Lisa Curtis
