TIME – Afghanistan After Petraeus: From Defeat to ‘Transition’
Source: TIME, 8/5/2011
ASP Fellow Joshua Foust is quoted.
By John Wendle
“Crocker and Allen’s statements echoed Petraeus’ from a year ago. And in reality, little is likely to change. “Crocker has some credibility and may have a marginal impact, but for the foreseeable future, everything happening on the ground in Afghanistan is an ISAF-driven show,” says Doug MacGregor, a retired colonel who is a leading critic of counterinsurgency theory. “In a way, I think anyone besides Eikenberry and Petraeus would be better. Crocker and Allen are both strong candidates to take the reins, but I worry their arrival comes far too late in the game to have more than a peripheral impact on the situation,” says Joshua Foust, a prolific blogger on Registan.net and a fellow at the American Security Project…”
