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Thomas Ruttig

Interview/Trump/Afghanistan: Thomas Ruttig, Afghanistan Analysts Network

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Deutschlandfunk, 22 August 217 Listen to an interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the new US strategy for Afghanistan under Trump (in German).

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Warlordismus in Afghanistan (u.v.m.)

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Aufwachen! (blog), 26 August 2017 More than 1 hour of podcast with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig, about the roots, the development and the current situation of the Afghn conflict(s) (in German).

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The void in Trump’s Afghanistan strategy

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Daily Times, 26 August 2017 Op-ed by AA’s Thomas Ruttig in the Pakistani daily, looking at Donald Trump’s refusal to do state building in Afghanistan as a major void in his Afghanistan strategy, given Afghanistan’s weak, superficial democratic institutions. He concludes: A country as ethnically, religiously, politically and socially diverse as Afghanistan needs reliable institutions […]

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The Financial Cost Of U.S. Involvement In Afghanistan

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Forbes, 24 August 2017 The intervention in Afghanistan has cost the US $1.07 trillion dollars since 2001. The  bill can be divided into three segments. Overseas Contingency Operations funds specifically dedicated to the war come to $773 billion. $243 billion can be attributed to increases in the base budget of the Department of Defense while […]

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Pakistan in the crosshairs of Trump’s Afghan strategy

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al-Jazeera, 24 August 2017 Longer quotes of AAN’s Kate Clark in this article about Trump’s Pakistan-related remarks in his 21 August Afghanistan address: “On the Afghan side, it’s always assumed that the US could sort out Pakistan if it wanted to … and I think that’s a wrong assumption. I think it’s much more tricky,” […]

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Allt fler civila offer i sargat Afghanistan

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Dagens Nyheter, 23 August 2017 The leading Swedish daily quotes from AAN analysis in its article about Donald Trump’s Afghanistan address – but the detail is hidden behind a pay wall.

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О новой американской стратегии в Афганистане – с Томасом Рутигом

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Central Asian Analytical Network, 23 August 2017 Full interview (both in English and Russian) with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the Baku-based outlet about Trump’s Afghanistan strategy. Russian version under the same link, just switch languages.

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„Nötig wäre der Aufbau eines funktionierenden Staates“

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Tagesspiegel, 22 August 2017 Full interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about President Trump’s 21 August Afghanistan address, both print and online (in German).

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U.S. Has More Troops in Afghanistan Than Publicly Disclosed

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Wall Street Journal, 22 August 2017 Useful article that gives an overview over the real number of US soldiers in Afghanistan: 8400 ‘full-timers’ and  3500 temporarily deployed, altogether 11,900.  3900 will be added based on Trump strategy, summa summarum: 15,800. Then there is an unknown number of special forces etc; of course, some soldiers shift between […]

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President Trump and America’s ‘forever war’

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KCRW, 22 August 2017 Listen to the show: AAN’s Kate Clark was on a radio panel with KCRW, on the US National Public Radio Network. Other participants: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Washington Post; Omar Samad, Silk Road Consulting / New America Foundation; Hardin Lang, Center for American Progress.

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The Ghost of Najibullah: Hezb-e Watan announces (another) relaunch

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A new attempt is underway to relaunch Hezb-e Watan, the ruling party that was revamped by President Najibullah in 1990 when he renamed the PDPA and tried to shed it’s communist past. Although the intention is to bring together an important segment of the former leftist forces in Afghanistan, the relaunch also has the potential […]

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