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Obama leaves behind a mess in Afghanistan | Asia | DW.COM | 19.01.2017
The Obama administration's decision to delay withdrawal from Afghanistan in October 2015, in the light of lessons learned in the withdrawal from Iraq
10/15/2015
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In Reversal, Obama Says U.S. Soldiers Will Stay in Afghanistan to 2017
New York Times 10/15/2015
Lessons of Iraq Loom Over Obama’s Decision to Keep Troops in Afghanistan
New York Times 10/15/2015
Obama leaves behind a mess in Afghanistan | Asia | DW.COM | 19.01.2017
DW.COM 01/19/2017
Trump Takes New Tack in Afghanistan Fight
WSJ 08/22/2017
Gen. Dempsey, Gen. Dunford, and U.S. policies in Iraq and Afghanistan
05/05/2015
Gen. Dunford continues Gen. Dempsey's policy of caution in Iraq and Afghanistan. Both officers are concerned about the manner in which the U.S. undertook its missions in Afghanistan and Iraq and are making an effort to correct errors made under the Bush administration. Gen. Dempsey is concerned about the hasty training of the Iraqi army under his predecessors leading to some commanders being accused of heading sectarian death squads. Gen. Dempsey's cautious approach so that some of the mistakes made under a previous administration are not repeated, is exceeded by president Obama who has opted not to act in situations where Dempsey and most of the president's advisors have favored acting.
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Gen. Martin Dempsey Leaves a Legacy of Caution
Wall Street Journal 05/06/2015
Joseph Dunford, Joint Chiefs Nominee, Known to Maneuver Between Roles
New York Times 05/05/2015
Obama leaves behind a mess in Afghanistan | Asia | DW.COM | 19.01.2017
DW.COM 01/19/2017
Hillary Clinton's (also Panetta, Gates. Gen. Jones) differences with U.S. president Obama on Iraq, Afghanistan and the U.S. role in the world
08/11/2014
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A Rift in Worldviews Is Exposed as Clinton Faults Obama on Policy
New York Times 08/11/2014
Hillary Clinton, Barbed and Bellicose
New York Times 08/11/2014
New York Times 08/11/2014
With Maliki Out of the Picture, U.S. Prepares to Boost Iraq Aid
Wall Street Journal 08/16/2014
How to Save Iraq and Honor American Sacrifice
Wall Street Journal 08/15/2014
Amplified by Social Media, Insider Memoirs Make More Racket
New York Times 10/07/2014
The sense of a forgotten American soldier in 2015 as missions in Afghanistan and Iraq wind down
12/31/2014
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Mission Ends in Afghanistan, but Sacrifices Are Not Over for U.S. Soldiers
New York Times 12/31/2014
In Reversal, Obama Says U.S. Soldiers Will Stay in Afghanistan to 2017
New York Times 10/15/2015
Obama leaves behind a mess in Afghanistan | Asia | DW.COM | 19.01.2017
DW.COM 01/19/2017
The Afghanistan Army and the Taliban in 2015- efforts to bring in militias to hold off the Taliban in the north
05/24/2015
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Afghans Form Militias and Call on Warlords to Battle Taliban
New York Times 05/24/2015
Afghan Crisis Grows as Push to Retake Kunduz From Taliban Fails
New York Times 09/29/2015
In Reversal, Obama Says U.S. Soldiers Will Stay in Afghanistan to 2017
New York Times 10/15/2015
Taliban’s New Leader, More Scholar Than Fighter, Is Slow to Impose Himself
The New York Times 07/11/2016
New Taliban Leader Moves to Repair Old Fractures
WSJ 08/04/2016
Obama leaves behind a mess in Afghanistan | Asia | DW.COM | 19.01.2017
DW.COM 01/19/2017
The Taliban in 2015- the Quetta Shura, Mullah Omar, and the remaining younger Taliban inside Afghanistan
01/02/2015
Changing expectations of the Afghan people by 2015, with many Taliban leaders killed in fighting with American forces and drone strikes, aging of the Taliban leadership in Quetta, have changed the nature of the Taliban. It makes it harder to negotiate a peace agreement but also leaves a fractured Taliban with younger Taliban in Afghanistan no longer following the leadership in Quetta.
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Unruly Factions Hurt Taliban’s Bid to Capture Afghan Hearts, and Territory
New York Times 01/02/2015
Afghans Form Militias and Call on Warlords to Battle Taliban
New York Times 05/24/2015
Taliban Leader Mullah Omar Is Dead, Afghan Spy Agency Says
Wall Street Journal 07/30/2015
Afghan Crisis Grows as Push to Retake Kunduz From Taliban Fails
New York Times 09/29/2015
In Reversal, Obama Says U.S. Soldiers Will Stay in Afghanistan to 2017
New York Times 10/15/2015
Taliban’s New Leader, More Scholar Than Fighter, Is Slow to Impose Himself
The New York Times 07/11/2016
The Taliban in Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, September 2015
09/29/2015
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Afghan Crisis Grows as Push to Retake Kunduz From Taliban Fails
New York Times 09/29/2015
In Reversal, Obama Says U.S. Soldiers Will Stay in Afghanistan to 2017
New York Times 10/15/2015
Human Error Cited in U.S. Strike on Kunduz Hospital
New York Times 11/24/2015
U.S. General Says Kunduz Hospital Strike Was ‘Avoidable’
New York Times 11/25/2015
New Taliban Leader Moves to Repair Old Fractures
WSJ 08/04/2016
Obama leaves behind a mess in Afghanistan | Asia | DW.COM | 19.01.2017
DW.COM 01/19/2017
Costs of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq reach $1 trillion by 2010.
07/24/2010
Estimate by the Congressional Research Service.
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The Wars That America Forgot About
New York Times 10/17/2010
The War: A Trillion Can Be Cheap
New York Times 07/24/2010
Rethinking the Afghanistan Warâs What-Ifs
New York Times 07/31/2010
New York Times 07/31/2010
Wall Street Journal 08/11/2010
Afghanistan's troubled national army: Fixing the unfixable
Economist 08/21/2010
Obama and Holbrooke: A Missed Opportunity
01/04/2008
Holbrooke grasped from his long experience in overseas conflicts what the best solution would be for Afghanistan- a negotiated settlement with the Taliban and Pakistan's army. The lack of White House support to the negotiator of the Dayton Peace accords in Bosnia, will remain a puzzling aspect of a landscape in America's costly involvement in two wars. Holbrooke's larger than life personality and style was the same under President Clinton who tapped Holbrooke's skills in America's interest and ignored posssible distractions. The failure of Obama to do the same and accomodate the personality to tap the vast trove of experience and wisdom of Holbrooke in a national crisis of two ongoing wars, is a comment on the nature of the leadership offered by the two presidents. It is a loss for America that goes unnoticed.
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Pakistan to Release Senior Taliban Leader
Wall Street Journal 09/11/2013
Ex-Envoy Says Misunderstanding Runs on Both Sides of U.S.-Pakistan Ties
New York Times 10/22/2013
Sharif and Karzai Try to Repair Ties
Wall Street Journal 10/30/2013
Leader of Pakistani Taliban Killed in Drone Strike
Wall Street Journal 11/02/2013
Gates Faults Obama Over Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal 01/08/2014
Back on World Stage, a Larger-Than-Life Holbrooke
New York Times 02/08/2009
A crucial test of leadership of President Obama for the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan- 2009-2010
09/23/2009
Obama has to look at the unofficial reports on the ground to get the facts, and be willing to change completely with the facts, if he is to accept Vice President Biden's view and advisor Reidel's view that counterinsurgency fight is not possible without a credible and legitimate Afghan partner.
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Pakistan Gives Sharif a Mandate
Wall Street Journal 05/12/2013
Pakistan's New Top Diplomat Heads to Kabul
Wall Street Journal 07/19/2013
Gates Faults Obama Over Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal 01/08/2014
Obama Is Considering Strategy Shift in Afghan War
New York Times 09/23/2009
In Poll, Public Wary of Obama on War and Health
New York Times 09/25/2009
New York Times 09/25/2009
The Obama law school type analytical processes that yielded the decision for a "surge" in Afghanistan.
01/18/2009
The question is whether the complexities in society, culture, language, politics and history, of a place like Afghnistan and Pakistan can be settled with charts and numbers, and Mr. Obama's law school manner analytical processes. Can this kind of logic based approach address Afghanistan and Pakistan?
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Gates Faults Obama Over Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal 01/08/2014
As a Professor, a Pragmatist About the Supreme Court
New York Times 05/03/2009
Our Timeline, and the Taliban’s
New York Times 12/04/2009
How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan
New York Times 12/06/2009
Obama’s Logic Is No Match for Afghanistan
New York Times 12/06/2009
New York Times 12/05/2009
Lt. General John Allen and the American war effort in Afghanistan- 2011-2012
04/28/2011
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To Lead Afghan War, Obama Chooses Marine Known for Swaying Sunnis in Iraq
New York Times 04/28/2011
New Afghan War Leader Helped Nurture Sunni Awakening in Iraq
Wall Street Journal 04/28/2011
Spring Offensive to Begin, Taliban Say
New York Times 04/30/2011
Obama Will Speed Pullout From War in Afghanistan
New York Times 06/22/2011
Obama’s Afghanistan plan gets mixed reviews from grunts at Fort Campbell - The Washington Post
Washington Post 06/27/2011
A New Pakistan Policy: Containment
New York Times 10/14/2011
Declining public support in the U.S. for the war in Afghanistan- 2011-2013
08/11/2010
Public opinion polls showing a steep fall in support for the war in 2012, with 69% favoring withdrawal.
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Wall Street Journal 08/11/2010
U.S. Military Eyes Afghan Force of 10,000, or a Pullout
New York Times 01/21/2014
U.S. Will Complete Afghan Pullout by End of 2016, Obama Says
New York Times 05/27/2014
Obama Details Plan for Forces in Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal 05/28/2014
Amid Drawdown, Fears of Taliban Resurgence and Economic Collapse
New York Times 05/28/2014
U.S. and British Troops End Operations in Key Afghan Province
New York Times 10/26/2014
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan 2013-2015
01/16/2014
Grouped Articles
Washington Post 01/16/2014
U.S. Military Eyes Afghan Force of 10,000, or a Pullout
New York Times 01/21/2014
U.S. Will Complete Afghan Pullout by End of 2016, Obama Says
New York Times 05/27/2014
Obama Details Plan for Forces in Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal 05/28/2014
Amid Drawdown, Fears of Taliban Resurgence and Economic Collapse
New York Times 05/28/2014
Taliban Making Military Gains in Afghanistan
New York Times 07/26/2014
Migrants from Afghanistan, second only to Syrians, in Europe's migrant crisis in 2016
04/09/2016
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Secretary of State Kerry makes an unannounced visit to Afghanistan - The Washington Post
Washington Post 04/09/2016
Obama leaves behind a mess in Afghanistan | Asia | DW.COM | 19.01.2017
DW.COM 01/19/2017
We need Africa to solve migrant crisis, says President Macron
The Times 07/06/2018
The U.S. and the Taliban in Afghanistan- the situation in 2016-2017
08/04/2016
Grouped Articles
New Taliban Leader Moves to Repair Old Fractures
WSJ 08/04/2016
Obama leaves behind a mess in Afghanistan | Asia | DW.COM | 19.01.2017
DW.COM 01/19/2017
Trump Settles on Afghan Strategy Expected to Raise Troop Levels
The New York Times 08/20/2017
Analysis | Trump’s Afghanistan strategy isn’t really a flip-flop. But his entire foreign policy is.
Washington Post 08/21/2017
India already gives Afghanistan billions in aid. Now Trump says India must ‘help us more.’
Washington Post 08/22/2017
Trump Takes New Tack in Afghanistan Fight
WSJ 08/22/2017
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