Future of US Engagement in Afghanistan to Fall to Next President

As the process of electing the next American president goes into its final stages, national security and foreign policy analysts are divided over the long-term U.S. role in Afghanistan, with some suggesting the U.S. military may at some point make a comeback to a full-fledged pre-2014 style combat mission. “The U.S. has been conducting a counter-terrorism mission basically without change since the bulk of U.S. troops left [Afghanistan] at the end of 2014,” said Anthony Cordesman at the...

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