Hal Brands, Columnist

The Afghan Mini-Surge Has a Strategy Deficit

For a new plan to be successful, the U.S. will have to define what "success" actually means.

June 7, 2017 at 12:30 PM UTC

Hal Brands is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.

Not halting the Taliban.
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After prolonged internal debate, the Donald Trump administration seems to be nearing a decision on how to proceed in America’s long war in Afghanistan. Trump’s military advisers -- along with his national security adviser, General H.R. McMaster -- are said to be pushing a plan to send several thousand additional troops into that conflict.

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