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U.S. leaves Bagram Airfield as America winds down its longest war
In The News
All U.S. and coalition troops have left Bagram Airfield, once the largest base in Afghanistan and the hub of American air operations throughout the nearly two-decade conflict,...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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U.S. Questioned Whether Afghan Government Could Survive Taliban Onslaught
In The News
The Biden administration is mapping out a strategy for Afghanistan after the U.S. military completes its withdrawal that is centered around the boosting of economic support fo...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden will meet President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan at the White House.
In The News
President Biden will meet with the Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, on Friday afternoon at the White House to discuss ways to ensure a safe future for a country increasingly un...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Afghan leaders to meet Biden at the White House
In The News
Afghan leaders Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah will meet United States President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday for a high-stake discussion likely to shape Afghanis...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden administration plans to evacuate Afghans who worked with U.S.
In The News
American presidents used visits to NATO headquarters over the past 20 years to talk up the military and moral imperatives in Afghanistan, where U.S. and allied forces fought s...
By Lisa Curtis
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
US Training Mission Uncertain as Afghan Withdrawal Nears EndThe fate of the international effort to train Afghan national security forces has become increasingly unclear as Pentagon officials point to other priorities with only about t...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
This Memorial Day, remember those who died in Afghanistan, and the loved ones they left behindIt was a graduation gift from his mother, a chance to skydive.Quinn Johnson-Harris of Milwaukee made that first jump and declared: "I'm going to live in the sky."And he did, j...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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Son of late Northern Alliance leader builds movement in Afghanistan as US troops withdraw and uncertainty rises
The son of one of Afghanistan’s most renowned guerrilla leaders is working to unite disparate militias against the Taliban, fearing the group may try to regain control of the ...
By Lisa Curtis
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In The News
Indo-Pacific Security / National Security Human Capital Program
Many served, some died: Nebraskans look back on the Afghanistan WarThe long-awaited, long-delayed final pullout of U.S. and NATO forces after 20 years of war in Afghanistan has finally begun. President Joe Biden set a deadline of Sept. 11 for...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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After troops leave Afghanistan, U.S. will face challenges maintaining counterterrorism capability
In The News
The military and intelligence agencies are racing to refine plans for countering extremist groups in Afghanistan following President Biden’s planned troop withdrawal, but curr...
By Lisa Curtis
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On foreign policy decisions, Biden faces drag of pragmatism
In The News
President Joe Biden this past week found himself in search of a foreign policy sweet spot: somewhere between pulling a screeching U-turn on four years of Trumpism and cautious...
By Lisa Curtis
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U.S., NATO troops pulling out of Afghanistan will raise concerns for India, say experts
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In the aftermath of the U.S. and the NATO withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan, India will have tremendous concern on the resurgence of the Taliban and its territory being ...
By Lisa Curtis
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CNAS Responds: Biden Announces Full U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Press Note
President Biden has announced that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. CNAS experts unpack what to watch for....
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CNAS Responds: Biden Announces Full U.S. Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Press Note
President Biden has announced that all U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. CNAS experts unpack what to watch for....
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President Joe Biden Is Withdrawing U.S. Forces from Afghanistan. What Happens Now?
After nearly 20 years, more than 2,300 U.S. troops dead, more than 20,000 wounded, hundreds of thousands of Afghans maimed or killed and $2 trillion spent, President Joe Biden...
By Lisa Curtis
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Joe Biden gives up on the war in Afghanistan, leaving a weak ally
In The News
The first American forces to enter Afghanistan in 2001 arrived on September 26th when a CIA team dropped into the Panjshir Valley in the north of the country. At the peak of t...
By Lisa Curtis
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Following withdrawal announcement, battle to determine Afghanistan war’s legacy begins
In The News
The easy, obvious and probably inevitable legacy of America’s two-decade-long war in Afghanistan is the recognition that there are limits to U.S. military power, especially wh...
By Eliot Cohen
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Taliban Boycotts Key Peace Talks After U.S. Pull-Out Delay
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Hours after the Biden administration announced that the remaining 3,500 American troops will return from Afghanistan by the twentieth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a Ta...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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With Afghan Decision, Biden Seeks to Focus U.S. on New Challenges
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President Biden’s decision to pull all American troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11 was rooted in his belief that there is no room for continuing 20 years of failed efforts to...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden About to Make Huge, Last-Second Gamble on Afghanistan
In The News
With less than a month to go before a diplomatic accord with the Taliban requires U.S. forces to withdraw from their longest-ever overseas war, the Biden administration is now...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
