This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. The withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from Afghanistan cannot properly … Continue reading →
This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. The future of Afghanistan is crucial for three reasons. First, after a Marxist … Continue reading →
This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. In late 2001, flush with an unexpectedly easy victory over the Taliban, the … Continue reading →
This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. U.S. and allied forces have made great progress in Afghanistan since the start … Continue reading →
This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. Ten years after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the gains that the international … Continue reading →
This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. The range of achievable outcomes in Afghanistan is narrowing as Western effort wanes. … Continue reading →
This piece was published as part of The Future of Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy, a collaboration between the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism and ForeignAffairs.com. A recent trip through Kabul and Regional Command East, an area the size … Continue reading →
COLUMBUS – The stridently militaristic response to 9/11 by the United States should probably be seen as an aberration in American foreign policy. Andrew Bacevich and many others, in contrast, espy in the experience since World War II the rise … Continue reading →
COLLEGE PARK – In 1982 I published an article that began, “Sometime in the 1980’s an organization that is not a national government may acquire a few nuclear weapons. If not in the 1980’s, then in the 1990’s.” I hedged … Continue reading →
SANTA BARBARA – On the 10th anniversary of 9/11 I will be in Cairo, on Tahrir Square, interviewing activists about the role of religion in the new movement for political change in that country. It strikes me that this is … Continue reading →
