I believe that we need in Afghanistan a counterinsurgency strategy focused on providing security for the population...
If we change our policies, the situation on the ground too will change.
We must win the war in Afghanistan because the alternative is to risk that country's reversion to its previous role as a...
We face a similar moment now with respect to the war in Afghanistan.
More than 3 years ago, some of us called for a major change in our strategy in Iraq.
Dictated by the realities on the battlefield?
Certainly an increase in corruption.
It alienates both Afghan and Pakistani populations?
17,000 additional forces are at best two-thirds of what his requirement would be.
We need to combine our top-down approach in Afghanistan of building up the Afghan army and the Afghan Government with a ...
I think this is the only way that we can unite the effort successfully.