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Republican Extremism Is Harming National Security
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According to veteran security officials and terrorism researchers, the widespread acceptance of conspiracy and disinformation amounts to “mass radicalization” of Americans and...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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‘We Never Got It. Not Even Close’: Afghanistan Veterans Reflect on 20 Years of War
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The last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan boarded a plane on Aug. 30, 2021. In the nearly two decades of war that preceded, more than 775,000 U.S. service members deployed to...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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‘No One Quite Knows What to Say’: A War Easily Ignored Ends With Few Answers
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At 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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Vets see many US failures in Kabul. Military intelligence is just one.
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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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Biden’s ‘America’s Back’ Vow Torched as Taliban Storm Kabul
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Just 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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Green and black
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General Mark Milley, the chairman of America’s joint chiefs of staff, and thus the country’s top military officer, provoked a furore in June when he defended West Point’s teac...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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From hubris to humiliation: America’s warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project
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Twenty 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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As US troops leave Afghanistan, what will future policy look like?
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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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U.S. leaves Bagram Airfield as America winds down its longest war
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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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Biden will meet President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan at the White House.
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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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US Training Mission Uncertain as Afghan Withdrawal Nears End
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The 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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‘No Victory Dance’: Veterans of Afghan War Feel Torn Over Pullout
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Was it worth it? After two decades of midnight watches and gut-twisting patrols down bomb-riddled roads, after all the deaths and bloodshed and lost years, that was the one in...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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America’s Next Insurgency
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Bleeding Kansas began with an eviction attempt. In late 1854, Jacob Branson, an abolitionist from Ohio, started trying to kick Franklin Coleman, a slavery proponent, off his p...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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What Should Be Addressed in Austin’s Confirmation Hearing for Defense Secretary?
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Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday for his confirmation hearing to become defense secretary. If confirmed, he would be...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Conspiracy theories and a call for patriots entice veterans at the Capitol
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The day President Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol, Jeremy Michael Brown, a retired Special Forces soldier with multiple combat tours, was in Washington, D.C., dressed f...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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4 looming foreign policy crises that could derail Biden’s agenda early on
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President-elect Joe Biden may want his administration to focus on long-term issues like the coronavirus pandemic, climate change, rebuilding alliances, and America’s relations...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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The United States has closed at least 10 bases around Afghanistan. But drawdown details remain murky.
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The United States has closed at least 10 bases across Afghanistan since the signing of a deal with the Taliban in February, according to Afghan and U.S. officials, part of a d...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Trump’s just-announced troop drawdown from Afghanistan and Iraq, explained
President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw more US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing a few thousand more service members home but still falling short of his promi...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Biden Family’s Military Ties May Influence Approach to Policy in White House
As the U.S. military awaits its new commander in chief, experts predict that the White House under Joe Biden will cut defense spending, encourage more social diversity in the ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal announcement takes US officials by surprise
Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that he wants to bring all US troops home from Afghanistan by Christmas – a plan that came as a surprise to administration officials and ...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
