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...The veteran US diplomat George Kennan, architect of the west’s policy of Soviet containment, described Nato’s eastward expansion in 1997 as “the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold...
...That might involve a conventional military attack that destroys Russia’s Black Sea fleet, as retired CIA director and army general David Petraeus suggested on Sunday....
...Now, you know, the two places we’ve never eliminated wild polio are Pakistan and Afghanistan....
...Biden administration officials have also told allies the CIA and Pentagon would help any Ukrainian insurgency with covert and overt aid....
...If I was ever put in command of Afghanistan again, what would I suggest as the preparation for the strategy?...
...“For the first half-year of the conflict Russia has been waging war like Britain once did in its colonies,” says Alexander Borodai, a Russian MP who commands three volunteer battalions currently fighting...
...Again, 270mn people as opposed to Russia, 140mn in the 10 years of Afghanistan. They seem to have lost that in Bakhmut alone multiple times over....
...The Pentagon and CIA were still acquiring high-end fighters for air-to-air combat against a non-existent Soviet Union and prioritising cold-war-era intelligence targets — and failed to see the “next war”...
...The degree of the international engagement was demonstrated by an unlikely visit by William Burns, the CIA director, to Kabul to meet Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar last week to discuss the evacuation...
...“The entire withdrawal has been too hasty, overly optimistic . . . and bungled in numerous respects.”...
...“No one will be able to lead the entire country.”...
...“The biggest practical measure of US support is going to be financial — they pay the entire budget of the armed forces and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future,” said Andrew Watkins, senior...
...But I was going to Afghanistan. You're going to London. Next morning, she's on a Gulfstream jet to London....
...Sure, the English Premier League team has won every major trophy in the sport and commands a global audience, including signs that the competition is cracking the US market....
...Admiral John Aquilino, the top US military commander in the Indo-Pacific, recently held an unusual meeting with the head of US Space Command and deputy head of US Cyber Command — in a remote part of the...
...The Russians’ “command and control has become more effective” says a western official....
...Graff was referring to the war on terror that followed the attacks, which included military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, the CIA’s resort to black sites and torture, and the Guantánamo Bay detention...
...Bill Burns, CIA director, says that Xi and China’s leaders have been caught off guard by the Ukraine conflict....
...Wallace interviewed many of the players involved, including former CIA chief Leon Panetta, William McRaven, the former head of the US Special Operations Command, who planned the raid, and Hillary Clinton...
...:“I wonder if you have found if there was any regret — or even a degree of reflection — within the CIA and elsewhere for its support of anti-Soviet groups in and around Afghanistan, which in some measure...
...In the 1970s, congressional investigations exposed a series of covert actions overseas by the CIA to undermine governments....
...In Afghanistan, we had the technological edge completely. And still we lost the war.”...
...The CIA did not always reveal what it was up to and its judgments were often wrong....
...CIA or GRU. Inventors of the game or its opportunistic co-opters....
...Even apparently innocuous pieces of information can be precious, he explains: “Everything from chain of command to responsibility or who’s making these decisions at what level....
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