Afghanistan Strategy

Colin Powell To Obama On Afghanistan Troop Decision: "Take Your Time"

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics


In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell reveale...

Official: Obama Does Not Plan To Accept Afghan War Options, Wants Handover Details

AP | BEN FELLER and ANNE GEARAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing ...

Obama Afghanistan Decision: President Will Miss Self-Imposed Deadline

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Though the White House had been shooting for the president to make an announcement about his new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan between November...

Anti-War Activists Reawakened By Obama Afghanistan Decision

Politics Daily | Shahzad Chaudhary | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics


Sitting in the front row at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, directly in sight of committee Chairman John Kerry, two women discreetly hel...

Obama Afghanistan Decision: Not A Question Of Whether To Send More Troops, But How Many

New York Times | Thom Shanker, Peter Baker and Helene Cooper | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics


President Obama's advisers are focusing on a strategy for Afghanistan aimed at protecting about 10 top population centers, administration officials sa...

Gates, Clinton Crucial Voting Bloc On Afghanistan

New York Times | Mark Landler and Thom Shanker | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics


The last time the Obama administration arrived at a moment of truth in the debate over what to do about Afghanistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert...

Out of Afghanistan

Felton Newell | Posted 10.07.2009 | World


Felton Newell

It is time to wind down this war. Instead of focusing on the goal of creating an effective government in Afghanistan, we should focus like a laser on tracking and destroying Al Qaeda.

White House Eyeing Narrower War Effort In Afghanistan

Washington Post | Scott Wilson and Anne E. Kornblut | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics


Senior White House officials have begun to make the case for a policy shift in Afghanistan that would send few, if any, new combat troops to the count...

Gates Has Growing Doubts About U.S's Afghan Strategy

Wall Street Journal | YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics


President Barack Obama met with senior counselors for three hours Wednesday to launch his review of Afghan war strategy, amid indications that his def...

Pakistan Gets Billions, But What About Scrutiny?

Saad Khan | Posted 09.30.2009 | World


Saad Khan

If the US wants to gain a positive feeling among common Pakistanis, it has to ensure direct aid to the masses instead of spending taxpayer money on corrupt government agencies.

Afghanistan Pullback: U.S. May Focus On Drone Attacks On Terrorists

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 11.21.2009 | World


WASHINGTON — Military officials voiced frustration and congressional leaders urged caution Tuesday over what they described as President Barack ...

US Afghanistan Strategy Reviewed For Fifth Time This Year

McClatchy News | Posted 07.10.2009 | World


Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has given the new U.S. commander in Afghanistan 60 days to conduct another review of the American strategy there, t...

Afghan President Backs Obama's New War Plan

AP | SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 04.28.2009 | World


KABUL — Afghanistan and Pakistan on Saturday praised the new U.S. strategy for dealing with growing violence in the two countries, with the Afgh...

Petraeus Launches Strategy Review: Afghanistan Will Probably Be "The Longest Campaign Of The Long War"

Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics


Gen. David H. Petraeus has launched a major reassessment of U.S. strategy for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and the surrounding region, while warn...