By Monica Duffy Toft, The National Interest: “At a time when the United States is preparing to increase Pentagon spending and escalate troop deployments overseas, an analysis of U.S. military interventions since the country’s founding highlights two important and related dynamics.”
Afghanistan Strategy Must Address Endemic Kleptocracy
By James Durso, RealClearDefense: “Since 2001, the U.S. has spent $841 billion in Afghanistan, of which $120.8 billion was for “relief and reconstruction,” but really was for building - not rebuilding - the infrastructure and institutions of the country.”