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Biden’s Afghanistan Exit Raises Questions About His Foreign-Policy Record
During the 2020 political campaign, President Biden presented himself as a globe-trotting leader who had helmed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, served as President Bar...
By Richard Fontaine & Lisa Curtis
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Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
From hubris to humiliation: America’s warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan projectTwenty 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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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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As US troops leave Afghanistan, what will future policy look like?
As the US nears completion of its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon is supposed to switch to “over-the-horizon” counter-terrorist operations in the country. B...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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'Operation Allies Refuge' to Begin Airlifting Afghans Amid US Withdrawal
The United States this month is to begin airlifting from Afghanistan thousands of those who helped support American forces there during the past 20 years and now fear for thei...
By Lisa Curtis
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It’s Situation Normal for U.S. Diplomats in Kabul, Despite Taliban Gains
A Taliban rampage across Afghanistan is stoking fears that extremists could overrun the capital, Kabul, and force the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy. But inside the building, ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden is betting big on Afghanistan's air force. But their problems continue to grow.
If you think beating back a resurgent Taliban is hard, try doing it while fixing a broken helicopter over Zoom. In addition to pulling out all but a handful of troops from Afg...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden takes calculated political risk on Afghanistan withdrawal
A decade ago, Joe Biden found himself the odd man out, overruled by the generals who convinced then-President Barack Obama to increase the number of America's troops in Afghan...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden has just a few weeks left to make key decisions that will shape the future of Afghanistan
With the Taliban advancing across rural parts of Afghanistan, and criticism mounting over what some view as an overly hasty departure, the Biden administration is staring down...
By Lisa Curtis
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If the Taliban Wins the War, Can They Still Lose the Peace?
In early October 2001, then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell sent a cable to his envoy in Pakistan, ordering her to get a message to the head of the Taliban through Pakist...
By Lisa Curtis
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Afghan Pullout Has US Spies Reorienting in Terrorism Fight
The two-decade war in Afghanistan has given U.S. spies a perch for keeping tabs on terrorist groups that might once again use the beleaguered nation to plan attacks against th...
By Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, Jr. (Ret.)
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US races to find safe haven for Afghan translators in Central Asia as troop withdrawal nears
With the US withdrawal from Afghanistan just days away, the Biden administration is asking countries in Central Asia to temporarily house thousands of Afghan interpreters and ...
By Lisa Curtis