4 septiembre, 2021
por Felipe Sahagún
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4 septiembre, 2021
por Felipe Sahagún
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“When you leave your house, you don’t know if you’ll come back home alive. That’s the legacy of this war.”
31 August 2021
4 septiembre, 2021
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When a young American engineer Glenn Foster arrived in Afghanistan, he found a country rushing towards the future. The people are “exploding out into the open,” he said later.
The spirit of a new era is driving them at a furious pace.”
It was 1952. Afghanistan was still a kingdom, and King Zahir had hired foreign technicians – including American engineers and construction specialists – to help build the new post-war Afghanistan. Post-World War Two, that is. Continue leyendo →
4 septiembre, 2021
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By Paul Melly
With Chad’s withdrawal of troops and the imminent reduction in French troop strength from the vast Sahel region of West Africa – where jihadist groups continue to stage attack after attack, targeting civilians and soldiers without discrimination – new anti-terror tactics are afoot.
Defence ministers from the G5 Sahel countries – Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger – are planning more joint military operations and greater «hearts and minds» engagement.
3 septiembre, 2021
por Felipe Sahagún
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Edited byBenjamin Isakhan
The Legacy of Iraq critically reflects on the abject failure of the 2003 intervention to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy, underpinned by free-market capitalism, its citizens free to live in peace and prosperity. It argues that mistakes made by the coalition and the Iraqi political elite set a sequence of events in motion that have had devastating consequences for Iraq, the Middle East and for the rest of the world. Today, as the nation faces perhaps its greatest challenge in the wake of the devastating advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and another US-led coalition undertakes renewed military action in Iraq, understanding the complex and difficult legacies of the 2003 war could not be more urgent. Ignoring the legacies of the Iraq war and denying their connection to contemporary events could means that vital lessons are ignored and the same mistakes made again.
3 septiembre, 2021
por Felipe Sahagún
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«It was always America’s war,” Steve Erlanger said on last week’s World Review. This week, Karen DeYoung, Stefan Kornelius, and Peter Spiegel join Council President Ivo Daalder to discuss how the United States might handle the Taliban going forward, what to do about remaining Americans and allies, and why hard decisions are ahead on assistance and counterterrorism. Then, inside the first White House visit for Ukraine’s Zelensky and a status update on the German elections later this month»
