Month: May 2021

Afghanistan: Verbrannte Erde

junge Welt, 4 May 2021 The Berlin-based leftwing daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the misappropriated funds for Afghan reconstruction from an op-ed for Berlin-based Tagesspiegel: Zuschüsse in Milliardenhöhe für den Wiederaufbau (…) befeuerten, wie der Afghanistan-Experte Thomas Ruttig am Donnerstag im Tagesspiegel schrieb, »eine Warlord-Kaste, die die Hilfsgelder aufsaugte und unter den Augen des NATO-Militärs mit […]

4 May 2021

Kandahar Dispatch: Day 1 of the End of the U.S. War in Afghanistan

New York Times, 3 May 2021 “The scenes over the weekend were almost as if a multitrillion-dollar war machine had morphed into a garage sale. At the airfield’s peak in 2010 and 2011, its famous and much derided boardwalk housed snack shops, chain restaurants, a hockey rink and trinket stores. Tens of thousands of U.S. and NATO […]

3 May 2021

Biden marks 10 years since bin Laden raid

Yahoo News, 2 May 2021 This news items quotes from Kate Clark’s recent AAN analysis of repercussions of the current US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan: Few have faith in the peace negotiations under way between the Taliban and the government. Ending the war through negotiations is the “least likely scenario,” said the Afghanistan Analysts Network, […]

2 May 2021

As US troops withdraw, what next for war and peace in Afghanistan?

Kate Clark •

The United States’ decision to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan unconditionally, and the apparent dead end of its efforts to broker peace in Afghanistan, will have profound ramifications for the conflict. The likely outcomes can already be seen, including, ominously, in how civilian casualties are back up to their 2019 levels. Scrutinising the patterns […]

1 May 2021

As the U.S. departs Afghanistan, will the old Taliban reemerge?

Washington Post, 1 May 2021 In this article by Missy Ryan and Susannah George, AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is both quoted directly and from his recently published article at West Point’s CTC Sentinel: Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, said he believes the Taliban is waiting to gauge its strength relative to other parties, […]

1 May 2021