Laurel Miller
Director of Asia Program @CrisisGroup. [email protected] Afghanistan and Pakistan acting Special Rep. Adjunct senior political scientist @RANDCorporation.
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Trump unchained? Afghan troop surprise shows pre-election impulse to upend policy
Less than a month before the election, U.S. President Donald Trump's abrupt vow to bring home troops from Afghanistan by year-end is a sign of how he may feel increasingly unchained to push through a foreign policy "wish list" he hopes could appeal...
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Laurel Miller
Cavalier pseudo-edicts about US troop deployments, especially those in coalitions with allies, have consequences. My comment to @Reuters: "This is once again taking a sledgehammer to U.S. credibility around the world”.
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Can America Trust the Taliban to Prevent Another 9/11?
A dangerous asymmetry lies at the heart of the Afghan peace deal.
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Laurel Miller
David Petraeus in @ForeignAffairs argues #Afghanistan is "a problem that will require the perpetual military management of the United States." He rightly points out many of the challenges of implementing the US-#Taliban agreement, but . . .1/7
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On the Political Impasse in Afghanistan - United States Department of State
The U.S. government will initiate a review of the scope of our cooperation with Afghanistan. Among other steps, we are today announcing a responsible adjustment to our spending in Afghanistan and immediately reducing assistance by $1 billion this...
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Laurel Miller
Statement says: “The United States is not abandoning our partnership with Afghanistan.” Statement means: US no longer sees Afghan political leaders acting as partners and therefore US is preparing to disengage. Leaves the door slightly open.
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An Afghan Bargain Likely to Fail
After 14 months, the United States would be left without any military or counterterrorism capacity in Afghanistan, effectively subcontracting America’s security to the Taliban.
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Laurel Miller
There is a fundamental internal contradiction in this piece by @AmbassadorRice. She says only a settlement between the Afghan govt and Taliban can end the war and then argues for a condition - keeping some US mil forces in Afghanistan - that would . . .
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Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan - United States Department of State
Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan Between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan Which Is Not Recognized by the United States as a State and Is Known as the Taliban and the United States of America Joint Declaration Between the Islamic...
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THREAD on what's new in US-#Taliban deal signed today and in US-Islamic Republic of Afghanistan "Joint Declaration," and analysis of who got what. (Plus link to full texts.) 1/19
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Assessing the Implications of a U.S.-Taliban Deal
An expert panel hosted with INDUS
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Laurel Miller
For folks in Washington, I’ll be participating in this panel on #US-#Taliban deal on Sept 5. Views guaranteed to be diverse.
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