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The US Should Never Even Have Been in Afghanistan in August 2021
"Afghanistan was indeed a failure of US foreign policy," Paul Poast writes. "But it wasn't a failure of the Biden administration."
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It's Time to Get the US Military out of the Middle East
"The US military footprint in the Greater Middle East is undermining US strategic priorities elsewhere in the world," Paul Poast argues.
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What US Proxy Wars Can Tell Us About Ukraine
"This isn't Afghanistan, and this isn't Syria. This is a country that's being attacked," says Ivo Daalder on MSNBC. "This is not a proxy war."
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Chaos Swirls in Afghanistan as President Biden Defends Decision to Pull Out
The Council's Lizzy Shackelford joins Fox 32 Chicago to analyze the Taliban's Afghanistan takeover and US foreign policy lessons from America's longest war.
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Will the Never-Ending War in Afghanistan Ever End?
The war in Afghanistan has lasted more than 17 years, and the overall situation has improved little over those years.
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Bipartisan Bill Could End Our Casual Relationship with War
The Council's Elizabeth Shackelford explains how a new bipartisan bill could renew Congressional war powers and reign in presidential power to engage the United States in conflict.
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Ending War Doesn’t Have to Be This Hard
Elizabeth Shackelford explains why it's time for Congress to reassert limitations on our use of war.
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The US in Afghanistan: It Was Always Going to End This Way
"The inevitability of the outcome does not make it any less tragic, but the tragedy does not make the decision to withdraw wrong," Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford explains.
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Disinformation Sowed Our Failure in Afghanistan
"You cannot build good foreign policy on dishonesty. But we keep trying to because no one pays for it," writes Elizabeth Shackelford.
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Withdrawal from The "Forever War"
Ahead of President Biden's address on August 31, Elizabeth Shackelford joins Ben Roswell on CBC News to discuss the US’s completed withdrawal from Afghanistan.