No one is satisfied with the current strategy in Afghanistan, but there is deep uncertainty on how to best address the challenge of a resurgent Taliban. Uncertainty over the importance of the struggle in Afghanistan and how it fits into overall US strategy is coupled...
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Almost every security and foreign policy analyst in Washington agrees that in order to prevent the increase of extremist threats, there is a need for a comprehensive approach to the Afghanistan-Pakistan region as well as toward the individual countries themselves. The U.S. needs to properly...
What was once dubbed the new Obama Administration's "AfPak" strategy to stop the emboldened Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan is increasingly turning into a frantic effort to find a new "PakAf" strategy to counter a growing extremist threat to the civilian government in Islamabad. In April,...
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The 1947 partition of the subcontinent was traumatic for both Pakistan and India, resulting in hatred on both sides. Kashmir was the focal point of this enmity and almost immediately the object of a bitter war with a subsequent partition along a line of control...
Authors
- Richard Andres
- Linda Bishai
- Tim Brown
- James Jay Carafano
- Christopher Chivvis
- Sam Cohen
- Walton Cook
- Ed Corcoran
- Ralph Cossa
- Council on Foreign Relations
- Charles Dunlap
- Gareth Evans
- Nikolas K. Gvosdev
- Brian Michael Jenkins
- Terrence Kelly
- Michael Krepon
- Stephen Larrabee
- Arthur G. Martirosyan
- Mackenzie Eaglen
- Ali Nader
- Aram Nerguizian
- Ori Nir
- Jim Phillips
- RSIS
- Paul Saunders
- David Schenker
- Ghassan Schbley
- Mark Schneider
- Daniel Serwer
- George Smith
- Scott Snyder
- Alexander Thier
- Rosemary Freitas Williams
- Elizabeth Zolotukhina
