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Two notable events in the news this week showcase the Obama Administration’s foreign policy.  First, the Taliban’s top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was captured by Pakistani authorities at a madrassa near Karachi.  Here the Administration’s efforts to cultivate ...Read more

President Obama and his advisers are right to realize that they are at a perilous crossroad in Afghanistan. The path they take from here will determine the landscape of American foreign policy going forward, it will impact world events ...Read more

Karl Von Clausewitz, the military theoretician, famously once said, “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” In Afghanistan our political objective is clear:  it is to create a stable regime friendly enough to our interests so  that the ...Read more