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19 August 2021

Social Media in Violent Conflicts – Recent Examples

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Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd) Introduction Alan Rusbridger, the then editor-in-chief of the Guardian in his 2010 Andrew Olle Media Lecture,...

China’s Cyber-Influence Operations

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  Maj Gen PK Mallick, VSM (Retd) … With its growing assertiveness in the international arena, China uses new technologies to achieve its for...

India and Iran Will Have Their Hands Full on Afghanistan

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Aryaman Bhatnagar Source Link Iran’s newly minted president, Ebrahim Raisi, declared during a meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahman...

Historic images show the centuries-long struggle for Afghanistan

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RACHEL HARTIGAN Source Link The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was shockingly swift. On April 14, President Biden announced that the Unite...

The Taliban destroyed Afghanistan's ancient treasures. Will history repeat itself?

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ANDREW LAWLER Source Link As Alexander the Great did in 330 B.C., Taliban forces this week conquered the strategic cities of Herat and Kand...

The U.S. Spent $83 Billion Training Afghan Forces. Why Did They Collapse So Quickly?

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TARA COPP Source Link U.S. Air Force cargo planes and contracted aircraft are headed to Afghanistan to evacuate potentially thousands of Am...

The Afghanistan Debacle Is Another Step Toward ‘Fortress Europe’

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Judah Grunstein Source Link The collapse of the Afghan government over the weekend, culminating in the Taliban’s entry into Kabul and declar...

With Afghanistan Won, A 'New' Taliban Seeks to Rebrand Itself

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TOM O'CONNOR AND NAVEED JAMALI  Source Link In sharp contrast to the group's bloody foray into Kabul a quarter of a century ago and ...

Around the halls: The Taliban retakes Afghanistan

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Source Link Nearly 20 years after the United States intervened in Afghanistan to remove the Taliban from power, and in the wake of President...

Inside Reach 871, A US C-17 Packed With 640 Afghans Trying to Escape the Taliban

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TARA COPP and MARCUS WEISGERBER Source Link A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III safely evacuated some 640 Afghans from Kabul late Sunday,...

You Can’t Buy a Cause

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MARK KIMMITT Source Link The rout of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, or ANDSF, will go down in history as one of the great...

The 1 Thing That Could’ve Changed the War in Afghanistan

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DAVID FRUM Source Link Had the United States caught and killed Osama bin Laden in December 2001, the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan ...

Does the Great Retreat from Afghanistan Mark the End of the American Era?

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Robin Wright Source Link History will surely note this absurdly ill-timed tweet. On Monday, August 9th, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul posed a q...

As the Taliban return, Afghanistan's past threatens its future

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JASON MOTLAGH Source Link In the blue haze of hookah smoke that filled Kandahar’s Cafe Delight on a recent weekend afternoon, it was easy to...

Pentagon Shifts Blame, Says U.S. Didn't Plan for Afghan Forces 'Capitulating' Without Fight

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CAMMY PEDROJA  Source Link Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said Monday that the United States military "did not anticipate"...

We Never Did What Was Necessary in Afghanistan

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AL PESSIN Source Link All of the American angst and blame-gaming associated with the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s lig...

Biden: ‘I Stand Squarely Behind My Decision’ on Afghanistan

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JACQUELINE FELDSCHER Source Link President Joe Biden said Monday that he did not regret withdrawing all American forces from Afghanistan de...

What went wrong in Afghanistan

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David Loyn Source Link When Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, he was able to say that they'd leave b...

Why America Was Destined To Fail In Afghanistan

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Andrew A. Michta Source Link In April, President Joe Biden ordered the full withdrawal of remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Septe...

The Taliban Is Back: What Happens Next? – Analysis

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Frud Bezhan* Source Link ( Gandhara ) — The situation in the Afghan capital, Kabul, is changing rapidly as the Taliban has moved into the c...

Afghanistan after the U.S. Withdrawal: Trends and Scenarios for the Future

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Antonio Giustozzi Source Link Executive Summary  This essay discusses the prospects for Afghanistan after the completion of the U.S. forces ...

The Taliban Ride Back to Power in Kabul

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Niha Dagia Source Link That the Taliban are on the cusp of power in Afghanistan may be unsurprising, but the speed of the collapse is undou...

Kabul Is Not Quite Saigon, and It Was All Too Easy

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Luke Hunt Source Link The right-wing politics of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell are not everyone’s cup of tea. But he’s an old stager and he ...

Afghanistan Is a Wake-Up Call for ‘Major Non-NATO Allies’

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Nikolas K. Gvosdev Source Link Apoint that I have tried to make in these pages for the last two decades is the importance of clarity in lang...

‘A self-inflicted wound’: Former ambassador to Afghanistan, Spokane Valley native Ryan Crocker says Taliban rout was avoidable

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Orion Donovan-Smith  Source Link WASHINGTON – With Taliban forces rapidly seizing territory across Afghanistan and Americans rushing to evac...

From hubris to humiliation: America’s warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project

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Greg Jaffe Source Link Twenty years ago, when the twin towers and the Pentagon were still smoldering, there was a sense among America’s warr...

Afghanistan’s lesson? Fight to win or stay home | Column

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Robert Bruce Adolph Source Link America and its allies lost the war in Afghanistan. The expenditure of blood and treasure was extraordinary ...

Written in Taliban

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Matthew Griffin, Scott Chapman Source Link The first time I saw you was in the Khyber pass. You came with your technology, elite fighters f...

The $88 billion gamble on the Afghan army that's going up in smoke

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BRYAN BENDER and PAUL MCLEARY Source Link The United States spent more than $88 billion to train and equip Afghanistan’s army and police, ne...

What Starts In Afghanistan Does Not Stay In Afghanistan: China, India And Iran Grapple With Fallout – Analysis

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James M. Dorsey Source Link Taliban advances in Afghanistan shift the Central Asian playing field on which China, India and the United Stat...

Laos-China Railway on Track for December Opening: Official

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Sebastian Strangio Source Link A railway embankment in the countryside outside Vientiane, Laos, on November 12, 2018.Credit: Sebastian Stra...

Malaysia’s Muhyiddin Finally Steps Down As Prime Minister

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Alifah Zainuddin Source Link Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin stepped down on Monday after trying – and failing – to seek opposit...

Mind the Gap: Priorities for Transatlantic China Policy

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Source Link China is at the top of the transatlantic agenda. Throughout the first half of 2021, the Distinguished Reflection Group on Transa...

Longest war: Were America’s decades in Afghanistan worth it?

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ELLEN KNICKMEYER Source Link Here’s what 19-year-old Lance Cpl. William Bee felt flying into southern Afghanistan on Christmas Day 2001: pur...

As U.S. COVID-19 Deaths Top the Civil War’s Toll, We're Repeating Disease History

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RACHEL LANCE Source Link On Saturday, the United States passed a new landmark in the fight against the novel coronavirus, when the death tol...