U.S. President Barack Obama held a three-hour meeting on Afghanistan with key members of his national security team, some of whom are divided on whether or not to send more troops to Afghanistan. Alex Their of the United States Institute of Peace discusses the administration's options.
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Interview (video)
October 1, 2009
Obama mulls over Afghanistan strategy with advisers
Interview (video)
September 21, 2009
Afghanistan commander warns of failure
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is warning of the possibility of failure without additional American troops. Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies discusses U.S. options in Afghanistan.
Interview (video)
September 17, 2009
Italian soldiers killed by blast in Afghanistan
Italy lost six of its troops in Afghanistan to a suicide car bombing on Thursday. Alessandra Baldini, the New York bureau chief of the Italian news agency ANSA, discusses how Italians view the war in Afghanistan and the Obama administration.
Week in Review (video)
September 11, 2009
Week in review: Iran’s nuclear program and Afghanistan
Garrick Utley of the State University of New York and Charles Sennott of GlobalPost discuss the major foreign policy challenges facing U.S. President Barack Obama: Iran's nuclear ambitions and troop numbers in Afghanistan.
Interview (video)
July 2, 2009
U.S. launches major new offensive in Afghanistan
Thousands of U.S. marines along with hundreds of Afghan troops launched a major offensive against the Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Marvin Weinbaum of the Middle East Institute discusses the strategic importance of the mission.
Interview (video)
June 10, 2009
Iraq violence prompts questions about U.S. withdrawal
A bombing in the Iraqi town of Bathaa on Wednesday was the latest in a series of attacks in recent weeks -- a wave of violence seen by many as an attempt to destabilize Iraq in advance of a drawback of American troops at the end of this month. John Nagl of the Center for a New American Security discusses the security situation.
Blogwatch
May 26, 2009
Russia’s plan for military reform runs into hurdles
Russian President Vladimir Medvedev has begun a massive reform of the country's military, with plans to cut Russia's officer corps from 355,000 to 150,000. While some say reforms will strengthen the military, critics say they will hasten its decline.
Analysis
March 19, 2009
Afghanistan may be a quagmire worse than Iraq, Vietnam
As the Obama administration weighs a major expansion of Afghan security forces, Worldfocus editorial consultant Peter Eisner, the former deputy foreign editor of the Washington Post, writes about reviewing the U.S. war strategy in Iraq before determining new strategy in Afghanistan.
Video
February 20, 2009
This week: Economic shock waves, Afghanistan, Pakistan
Dan Rather of "Dan Rather Reports" and Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs magazine discuss the week's top stories: Shock waves in the global economy, the controversial peace plan between Pakistan and Taliban militants and more American troops headed to Afghanistan.
Video
February 18, 2009
Obama orders 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan
Frederick Barton of the Center for Strategic and International Studies discusses President Barack Obama's announcement that he will send 17,000 more American troops to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.
