How Not to Lose Afghanistan at NYT Room for Debate
01.26.2009 at 11:54pm
How Not to Lose Afghanistan – New York Times
Barack Obama has said that his priority in the war on terrorism is Afghanistan, and is poised to increase troop levels there, perhaps by as many as 30,000. How should the United States deal with growing strength of the Taliban? Is increasing troop levels enough? We asked some analysts for their thoughts on military and political strategy in the region…
Kori Schake, former national security adviser
Andrew Exum, former United States Army officer
Bruce Riedel, former C.I.A. officer
John Nagl, former United States Army officer
Parag Khanna, senior research fellow at the New America Foundation
Read all five in full at The New York Times.
H/T to Rebecca White.
