The Afghan Solution
Event
The New America Foundation’s National Security Studies Program Held a discussion with Lucy Morgan Edwards on her recent book, The Afghan Solution, which argues that the rejection by the U.S. government of one Afghan leader’s plan to defeat the Taliban after 9/11 may have lost it the war.
Participants
Featured Speaker
Lucy Morgan Edwards
Former Political Advisor to the European Union Ambassador in Kabul
Author, The Afghan Solution: The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and How Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan
Moderator
Douglas Ollivant
Senior National Security Studies Fellow, New America Foundation
Former Senior Advisor to Commander, RC East