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Biden faces lasting blemish from Afghanistan exit
In The News
President Biden is facing criticism over his administration’s withdrawal from the two-decade conflict in Afghanistan that could leave a lasting blemish on his presidency. Bide...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden’s ‘America’s Back’ Vow Torched as Taliban Storm Kabul
In The News
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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How Biden and Trump caused Afghanistan catastrophe
In The News
President Biden's most senior advisers say there were stunned at the way Taliban fighters were able to advance across Afghanistan while government forces melted away or simply...
By Lisa Curtis
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He spent his adult life helping U.S. soldiers. Now, he’s desperately fleeing Afghanistan.
In The News
The voice on the phone from Kandahar Airfield sounded exhausted and resigned, as if not much hope was left. Lt. Col. Mohammad Iqbal Nuristani had managed to get the bulk of hi...
By Christopher D. Kolenda
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America's longest war: 20 years of missteps in Afghanistan
America's longest war is nearing its end, with a loss to the enemy it defeated in Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago, shock that the government and military it supported collapse...
By Lisa Curtis
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Afghan Cease-Fire Deal Struck in Doha Collapsed After Ghani Fled
In The News
The weeks leading up to Kabul’s collapse saw a flurry of diplomatic activity by the U.S. and its allies in Qatar aimed at heading off exactly the chaotic scenes in the Afghan ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Kabul's collapse followed string of intel failures, defense officials say
In The News
Military planners sounding the alarm about Afghanistan’s imminent collapse failed to predict the speed with which the Taliban would overrun the country, leaving the Biden admi...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden Holds Afghanistan Line: ‘I’m Clear On My Answer’
In The News
With the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan all but complete, US President Joe Biden took the stage and offered a full-throated defense of his decision to remove American troops ...
By Richard Fontaine
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Swift Taliban takeover leaves US image in tatters
In The News
After two decades in Afghanistan, America's longest war was ending with the image of the United States in tatters. With the swift collapse Sunday of the government in Kabul, t...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden's stain: U.S. flees Kabul
In The News
Richard Fontaine, head of the Center for a New American Security and former foreign policy adviser to Sen. John McCain, told Axios: "It's striking that, with 20 years to think...
By Richard Fontaine
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Biden’s Afghanistan Exit Raises Questions About His Foreign-Policy Record
In The News
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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From hubris to humiliation: America’s warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project
In The News
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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Taliban Sweep in Afghanistan Follows Years of U.S. Miscalculations
In The News
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
Press Note
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
In The News
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.
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
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
In The News
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
