Stuck with Afghanistan?

By Michael Cohen This week, I had a virtual get together with Joshua Foust over at bloggingheads.tv to discuss the future of US-Afghan policy. Josh writes the must-read registan.net blog, which is all things Central Asia with a particular focus on Afghanistan. Besides my day job at New America Foundation I blog at democracyarsenal.org where ...

By Michael Cohen

This week, I had a virtual get together with Joshua Foust over at bloggingheads.tv to discuss the future of US-Afghan policy. Josh writes the must-read registan.net blog, which is all things Central Asia with a particular focus on Afghanistan. Besides my day job at New America Foundation I blog at democracyarsenal.org where I've been writing a regular feature: the Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch.

Josh and I spent more than an hour discussing a wide range of topics related to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, from the effectiveness of U.S. military strategy and in particular counter-insurgency, the true nature of the security threat that the Taliban and a potential al Qaeda safe haven represents to the United States, rising indications of US mission creep, signs of success in Afghanistan that need to be capitalized upon by the U.S. military and the changing nature of military conflicts in the 21st century and whether the U.S. is ill-equipped to fight them.

By Michael Cohen

This week, I had a virtual get together with Joshua Foust over at bloggingheads.tv to discuss the future of US-Afghan policy. Josh writes the must-read registan.net blog, which is all things Central Asia with a particular focus on Afghanistan. Besides my day job at New America Foundation I blog at democracyarsenal.org where I’ve been writing a regular feature: the Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch.

Josh and I spent more than an hour discussing a wide range of topics related to the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, from the effectiveness of U.S. military strategy and in particular counter-insurgency, the true nature of the security threat that the Taliban and a potential al Qaeda safe haven represents to the United States, rising indications of US mission creep, signs of success in Afghanistan that need to be capitalized upon by the U.S. military and the changing nature of military conflicts in the 21st century and whether the U.S. is ill-equipped to fight them.

Michael Cohen is a fellow at the New America Foundation.

Michael Cohen is a fellow at the Century Foundation.

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