Afghanistan: What Can We Achieve?
ASP Senior Fellow Michael Cohen weighs in on the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, with his latest piece in Dissent Magazine.
Cohen writes:
“It is a mind-numbing tale of failure that has brought the United States and NATO to a painful decision point about the war in Afghanistan. They must realize that it is time to move beyond the U.S. military’s dreams of winning in Afghanistan and focus instead on best preparing the country for a partial drawdown of U.S. troops and a shift in mission from population-centric counterinsurgency to counter-terrorism and stabilization.”
You can read the full article here.