Paul D. Miller | Foreign Policy

Paul D. Miller is the associate director of the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously served as director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council staff for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

Elephants in the Room

Here’s How Trump Can Win America’s Longest War

Trump could succeed where his predecessors haven't: in Afghanistan.

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Elephants in the Room

Chemical Weapons Aren’t the Real Problem in Syria

The United States cares more about the murder weapon than the murder victim.

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Elephants in the Room

Michael Anton Is Donald Trump’s Ben Rhodes – But Is He Going Too Far?

Trump’s foreign policy svengali wants to take down the D.C. ‘Blob.’ But could he destroy the international order in the process?

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Elephants in the Room

‘Globalism’ Is the Victory of Western Ideals

If liberalism can succeed in the non-Western world, it is safe in the hands of immigrants to the United States. But it does not help if the president of the United States makes them feel unwelcome in their adopted homeland.

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Shadow Government

How World War III Could Begin in Latvia

Prediction: Donald Trump will have to decide if the defense of Latvia is worth risking a major war.

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Shadow Government

Trump Defeats Straw Man

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump outlined his “American First” foreign policy vision in a major speech yesterday, offering a stinging rebuke — possibly the definitive refutation — of a position no one holds.