On 18 September the Center for a New American Security held an Afghanistan Press briefing featuring Nathaniel Fick and Vikram Singh. Discussion topics ranged from the security situation in Afghanistan to cross border raids into Pakistan to what the US strategy should be. The transcript of the briefing can be found here.

Nathaniel Fick is a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Prior to joining CNAS, he served as a Marine Corps infantry and reconnaissance officer, including operational assignments in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq. In 2007, Fick was a civilian instructor at the Afghanistan Counterinsurgency Academy in Kabul. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller One Bullet Away (Houghton Mifflin, 2005). His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and USA Today, among other publications, and he is a frequent contributor to CNN, NPR, and the BBC.

Vikram Singh is a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. He works on Afghanistan and Pakistan, Asia Initiative ’09, and a range of CNAS defense strategy and planning projects. Prior to joining CNAS Mr. Singh worked in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Security Affairs, where he was responsible for strategic initiatives to improve the US military’s work with partner nations including the policy oversight and management of a joint Department of Defense and Department of State program to train and equip foreign military forces around the world.