Assessing the development, Steve Coll, a noted expert at the New America Foundation, said Mehsud was a significant figure. Coll said Mehsud was “one of the ...
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MARGARET WARNER: And for more on all of this, we turn to Pakistan's ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani, and Steve Coll, president of the New America ...
Even as the Afghanistan emergency intensifies, however, support for an open-ended commitment to “the Good War,” as author Peter Bergen calls it, ...
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... you scatter [the militants], and your intelligence game has to start all over again," says Khanna, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. ...
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If the Iraq War was the defining conflict of the George W.
Bush administration, the war in Afghanistan appears destined to be Barack
Obama's. During last year's campaign, Obama made it clear that he considered
the Afghan-Pakistani border the central front in the war against terrorism. As
president, he has taken ownership of the Afghan conflict by appointing new
leadership to oversee the war and embarking on a new strategy, including the
deployment of some 70,000 American soldiers by year's end and a push for
billions of… more
Terror
Free Tomorrow: The Center for Public Opinion and the New America
Foundation released today the results of an independent pre-election
poll of Iranian public opinion in advance of their presidential
elections June 12, 2009. The poll was conducted over a 10-day period in
May 2009, from a third country and is based on a sample of 1001 people
from across the country.
Shortly before inauguration day, the Bush administration national
security staff will walk the incoming Obama staff through what they
need to know should an emergency happen. Experts say the nation is most
vulnerable to attack in the early months of a new presidential
administration. Guest Peter Bergen joins MPR for this discussion.
Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation considers speculation of an al-Qaeda attack on the United States in the early days of the Obama ...
According to Steve Coll of the New Yorker, America’s ambassador in India looked into building a nuclear bunker in the embassy. With hindsight, it is not ...
“There been no unifying strategy,” said Steve Coll, president of the New America Foundation. “NATO operates its own way, every country operates its own way, ...
