White House Sends Confused, Unhelpful Message to NATO Allies on Afghanistan
The mixed messages coming from the Obama Administration last week on the future of combat operations in Afghanistan have left our allies confused, the Afghan… Read More
NATO Report Indicates Taliban Plotting Power Grab
In a secret NATO report recently leaked to the British media, Taliban insurgents told their interrogators that they are increasingly confident that the Taliban will… Read More
Taliban Prisoner Release A Premature, Dangerously Naive Move
The British newspaper The Guardian has reported that the U.S. has agreed in principle to release high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantanamo Bay in return for… Read More
Morning Bell: Biden Says Taliban Is Not Our Enemy
On a Saturday in late October in Kabul, Afghanistan, a car carrying explosives rammed into an armored U.S. military bus, killing 13 Americans, including five… Read More
Morning Bell: The Debate over the War in Afghanistan
The killing of Osama bin Laden was a hard-won victory for the United States, but the gains made in pursuit of that day of justice… Read More
Hold Pakistan Accountable in Afghanistan
With the 2014 Afghan troop withdrawal quickly approaching, a recent House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia hearing stressed the need to press… Read More
Senator Lieberman Grades President Obama on His Foreign Policy
Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT) visited Heritage this week to give the annual B.C. Lee lecture, focusing on the importance of American leadership in the Asia-Pacific… Read More
Azerbaijan’s Afghan Contribution
Late on Tuesday, July 5, an Azerbaijani tanker plane crashed in Afghanistan en route to U.S./NATO Bagram Air Base with a load of fuel. The United… Read More
Training Afghanistan Security Forces Essential for Peace
President Obama’s announced plan for accelerated troop reductions in Afghanistan puts at risk the hard-earned battlefield gains made by the coalition forces over the last… Read More
Obama’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Plan Jeopardizes Hard-Won Gains
President Obama’s plan for a hasty withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan risks squandering the hard-won gains made on the battlefield in southern Afghanistan over… Read More
