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New Taliban Attack Prompts Familiar Question: What's Next In Afghanistan?
The Taliban staged a coordinated attack overnight on two Afghan army outposts, killing 14 Afghan soldiers. It's the latest attack by insurgents on the country's beleaguered na...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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'Badass' national security women offer Democrats a Trump antidote
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Virginia Democrat Abigail Spanberger had a potent defense against attacks by President Donald Trump and other Republicans casting her party as weak on national security: her c...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Pentagon stuck with bill for ballooning border mission
In The News
If the Pentagon keeps thousands of active-duty troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border for several more months -- as the Department of Homeland Security requested Friday -- ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Border deployment puts Mattis and the military in political crosshairs
In The News
The White House’s decision to send more than 5,200 active-duty troops to the border with Mexico a week before the midterm elections has put the American military and Defense S...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Democrats Are Ignoring One Key Voting Group: Veterans
With control of Congress at stake in next month’s midterm elections, Democrats have a rare opportunity to gain a foothold against President Trump’s Republican Party. But if th...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Trump's Afghanistan strategy stymied by vetting of local troops
The plan to turn around the war in Afghanistan may already be running into quicksand. An extensive effort aimed at weeding out Taliban sympathizers and terrorist infiltrators ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Army hopes new units will help break Afghanistan stalemate
FORT POLK, La. — Seventeen years in the infantry have turned Army 1st Sgt. Shaun Morgan into a hard-charging grunt, but the veteran of five combat tours who recently deployed ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Is the top general in Afghanistan in too deep?
For Army Gen. John "Mick" Nicholson, the war in Afghanistan is deeply personal. The top commander in charge of President Donald Trump's revamped strategy to “fight to win” has...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Data on US counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan doesn’t add up
KABUL, Afghanistan — Data the Pentagon issued last year to spotlight the success of operations against militant groups in Afghanistan were inaccurate, raising questions about ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Training Quick and Staffing Unfinished, Army Units Brace for Surging Taliban
WASHINGTON — They are being heralded as a key part of President Trump’s new strategy to resolve the nearly 17-year war in Afghanistan. But their training has been cut short by...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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The Army's latest weapon to turn around the war in Afghanistan
FORT POLK, La. — The Army has a new tool it hopes will finally tip the scales in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan — and potentially other Islamist insurgencies. But ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Highest-ranking female officer in Afghanistan would rather talk about war than gender
KABUL, Afghanistan — Sitting in her office at NATO’s Resolute Support headquarters one recent afternoon, Army Maj. Gen. Robin Fontes played down the history she made this summ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Mattis Discloses Part of Afghanistan Battle Plan, but It Hasn’t Yet Been Carried Out
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, normally reluctant to speak publicly about American troops deployed around the globe, took a different tack this week on Capitol Hil...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Afghan Defense Ministry: US leaflet drop broke agreement
KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S. military broke an agreement with Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry when it released propaganda flyers deemed offensive to Muslims without first gett...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Trump's new Afghan strategy rings all too familiar in longest war
President Donald Trump says he is pursuing a "dramatically" different strategy in Afghanistan that will bear better results — but some of the Pentagon's own experts expect to ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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'We're Always Stronger Together': Military Leaders Denounce Hatred After Charlottesville
Five top U.S. military officers condemned bigotry following the white-nationalist led protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, even as President Donald Trump reverted to his ini...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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‘What’s your end game?’ Trump delegating Afghan war decisions to the Pentagon faces scrutiny
President Trump’s decision to delegate authority to the Pentagon to set troop levels in Afghanistan has raised concerns that a few thousand additional troops expected to deplo...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Trump’s Cabinet of Generals Is Testing the U.S. Military’s Political Neutrality
In this week’s Trend Lines podcast, WPR’s editor-in-chief, Judah Grunstein, and senior editor, Frederick Deknatel, discuss the Manchester bombing and U.S. President Donald Tru...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey & Amy Schafer
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US Drops Most Powerful Non-Nuclear Bomb in Afghanistan
The U.S. military on Thursday dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal against the Islamic State in Afghanistan, marking the first ever combat use of the mass...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Twitter and Facebook are politicizing the military
Social media’s angry partisan divides are seeping into the U.S. military, raising fears that the tradition of political neutrality in the armed services is eroding on sites li...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
