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Thousands are foreign fighters are pouring into Afghanistan, which has to make you wonder if that limited strategy of focusing on counterterrorism is really operative. If India is taking a greater role inside Afghanistan and Kabul becomes a proxy war between India and Pakistan, does that blur the line between Pakistan’s false choice of fighting ...
Thousands are foreign fighters are pouring into Afghanistan, which has to make you wonder if that limited strategy of focusing on counterterrorism is really operative.
Thousands are foreign fighters are pouring into Afghanistan, which has to make you wonder if that limited strategy of focusing on counterterrorism is really operative.
If India is taking a greater role inside Afghanistan and Kabul becomes a proxy war between India and Pakistan, does that blur the line between Pakistan’s false choice of fighting terrorism or fighting Indian influence?
China is calling for more dialogue between U.S. and North Korea, just about the time when North Korea watchers in Washington are becoming more and more skeptical of China’s real commitment to solving the North Korea nuclear crisis.
Starts and Stripes asks the question: Why not just transfer the troops from Iraq to Afghanistan? Answer: The military is pushing against a speedy withdrawal from Iraq, despite that the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is all about it.
Another lobbyist scores a meeting with Sudan envoy Scott Gration, while Sudan human rights groups can’t get in the front door. Doesn’t this guy have enough image problems already?
Josh Rogin covers national security and foreign policy and writes the daily Web column The Cable. His column appears bi-weekly in the print edition of The Washington Post. He can be reached for comments or tips at josh.rogin@foreignpolicy.com.
Previously, Josh covered defense and foreign policy as a staff writer for Congressional Quarterly, writing extensively on Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, U.S.-Asia relations, defense budgeting and appropriations, and the defense lobbying and contracting industries. Prior to that, he covered military modernization, cyber warfare, space, and missile defense for Federal Computer Week Magazine. He has also served as Pentagon Staff Reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading daily newspaper, in its Washington, D.C., bureau, where he reported on U.S.-Japan relations, Chinese military modernization, the North Korean nuclear crisis, and more.
A graduate of George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, Josh lived in Yokohama, Japan, and studied at Tokyo's Sophia University. He speaks conversational Japanese and has reported from the region. He has also worked at the House International Relations Committee, the Embassy of Japan, and the Brookings Institution.
Josh's reporting has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, CBS, ABC, NPR, WTOP, and several other outlets. He was a 2008-2009 National Press Foundation's Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow, 2009 military reporting fellow with the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and the 2011 recipient of the InterAction Award for Excellence in International Reporting. He hails from Philadelphia and lives in Washington, D.C. Twitter: @joshrogin
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