Biddle against the middle
The McChrystal camp gets a boost from Stephen Biddle in the New Republic., which I almost never read (or see) these days, but which Exum flagged. Biddle, who advised McChrystal last summer, worries that President Obama will try to settle for a compromise proposal. “But there is no magic middle between the McChrystal recommendation and ...
The McChrystal camp gets a boost from Stephen Biddle in the New Republic., which I almost never read (or see) these days, but which Exum flagged. Biddle, who advised McChrystal last summer, worries that President Obama will try to settle for a compromise proposal. "But there is no magic middle between the McChrystal recommendation and total withdrawal," he warns. "In counterinsurgency, less is not more."
U.S. Army/flickr
The McChrystal camp gets a boost from Stephen Biddle in the New Republic., which I almost never read (or see) these days, but which Exum flagged. Biddle, who advised McChrystal last summer, worries that President Obama will try to settle for a compromise proposal. “But there is no magic middle between the McChrystal recommendation and total withdrawal,” he warns. “In counterinsurgency, less is not more.”
U.S. Army/flickr
More from Foreign Policy


Is Cold War Inevitable?
A new biography of George Kennan, the father of containment, raises questions about whether the old Cold War—and the emerging one with China—could have been avoided.


So You Want to Buy an Ambassadorship
The United States is the only Western government that routinely rewards mega-donors with top diplomatic posts.


Can China Pull Off Its Charm Offensive?
Why Beijing’s foreign-policy reset will—or won’t—work out.


Turkey’s Problem Isn’t Sweden. It’s the United States.
Erdogan has focused on Stockholm’s stance toward Kurdish exile groups, but Ankara’s real demand is the end of U.S. support for Kurds in Syria.