Samad quoted in Politico: Who’s to blame for Afghanistan?

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As the past week made clear, the Trump administration is pushing ahead with what it sees as a revolution in the US approach to the world.
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Samad quoted in Politico: Who’s to blame for Afghanistan?

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The still-unfolding revelations offer perhaps the clearest picture yet of how top officials in the Trump administration are thinking about US foreign policy.
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Samad quoted in Politico: Who’s to blame for Afghanistan?

Issue Brief Mar 27, 2025

Canada needs an economic statecraft strategy to address its vulnerabilities

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In the News

Aug 16, 2021

Samad quoted in Politico: Who’s to blame for Afghanistan?

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan Conflict

In the News

Aug 16, 2021

Cunningham and Nooruddin quoted in Shanghai Daily on the US troop withdrawl from Afghanistan

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan Conflict

In the News

Aug 16, 2021

Nooruddin and Cunningham quoted in Xinhuanet: U.S. experts blast White House for strategic error in chaotic troop withdrawal

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan Conflict

In the News

Aug 16, 2021

Stefanini in POLITICO: What Biden lost in Afghanistan

By Stefano Stefanini

Ambassador Stefano Stefanin was quoted in POLITICO on the impact of the Afghanistan withdrawal on the United States' global credibility and the response from NATO allies.

Afghanistan Europe & Eurasia

In the News

Aug 16, 2021

Riaz joins Central Illinois Proud to discuss Afghanistan: The End of America’s Forever War and the Return of the Taliban

By Atlantic Council

Afghanistan Conflict

Issue Brief

Aug 16, 2021

EU-US Future Forum 2021: A path forward for transatlantic relations

By Benjamin Haddad, Jörn Fleck, Livia Godaert, Michaela Nakayama Shapiro

From May 5 to 7, the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center and the EU Delegation to the United States partnered to organize the first EU-US Future Forum (EUFF), a three-day open conference bringing together policy makers, experts, and the private sector to address the key challenges facing the transatlantic relationship in the coming decades.

Economy & Business Energy & Environment

New Atlanticist

Aug 15, 2021

How the Taliban did it: Inside the ‘operational art’ of its military victory

By Benjamin Jensen

The Taliban of 2021 is not the same as the Taliban of the 1990s. This Taliban is now adept at integrating military and non-military instruments of power in pursuit of its political objectives.

Afghanistan Conflict

Fast Thinking

Aug 15, 2021

FAST THINKING: What you need to know about the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan

By Atlantic Council

What can the United States possibly do now to manage the fallout? How will all this reshape America’s global standing? Our experts penetrate the fog of war.

Afghanistan Conflict

Experts react

Aug 15, 2021

Experts react: The Taliban has taken Kabul. Now what?

By Atlantic Council experts

Atlantic Council experts, many of whom have spent many years in the trenches on Afghanistan policy, weigh in on the fall of Kabul.

Afghanistan Conflict

In the News

Aug 13, 2021

Warrick in FOX Carolina on domestic violent extremism

By Atlantic Council

Forward Defense Nonresident Senior Fellow Thomas S. Warrick remarks on the need to take the domestic violent extremist threat seriously.

Extremism National Security
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Richard Pass

CEO and Co-Founder, Future Forces

Millennium Leadership Program

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Matt Rhodes

Vice President, Office of Government Affairs, Goldman Sachs

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Millennium fellow

Mark Donig

Head of US Strategy, Blue Laurel Advisors

Millennium Leadership Program

Entrepreneurship Middle East

Millennium fellow

Kurt Davis

Senior Director, Alvarez and Marsal

Millennium Leadership Program

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Millennium fellow

Jasneet Hora

Deputy Director of Speechwriting, Office of the Vice President, The White House

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Amy Cowley

Program Assistant, Forward Defense

Forward Defense

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Public Event Thu, May 8, 2025 • 9:30 am ET

General John Raymond on national security and the future of space commerce

An #ACFRONTPAGE EVENT—Raymond, who served as the first chief of space operations of the US Space Force, talks about maintaining the US military edge as the space domain becomes increasingly contested and congested.

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