Security and Defence
The AUKUS Deal: Self-Reflection Required
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/aukus-deal-self-reflection-required
US-built databases a potential tool of Taliban repression
https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-taliban-c007f85fb1b573c43a4391b947a5dcd4?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sept07_MorningWire&utm_term=Morning%20Wire%20Subscribers
US Interim National Security Strategic Guidance
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/NSC-1v2.pdf
UK The 9/11 advice that Tony Blair didn’t take
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/the-911-advice-that-tony-blair-didnt-take/?source=in-article-related-story
Winning Ugly – What the War on Terror Cost America
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2021-08-24/winning-ugly?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=twofa&utm_campaign=Winning%20Ugly&utm_content=20210903&utm_term=FA%20This%20Week%20-%20112017
What Does ISIS Want Now?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/kabul-airport-bombing-afghanistan/619906/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=27%2F08%2F21
Russia and America’s overlapping legacies in Afghanistan
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/08/18/russia-and-americas-overlapping-legacies-in-afghanistan/?utm_campaign=Brookings%20Brief&utm_medium=email&utm_content=151352169&utm_source=hs_email
Do we still have to fear the Islamic State?
https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/foreign-and-security-policy/do-we-still-have-to-fear-the-islamic-state-5375/?utm_campaign=en_926_20210826&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
Americans Never Understood Afghanistan Like the Taliban Did
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/what-taliban-understood-about-afghanistan/619864/
Bin Laden’s Catastrophic Success
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/afghanistan/2021-08-13/osama-bin-ladens-911-catastrophic-success?utm_medium=promo_email&utm_source=pre_release&utm_campaign=mktg_prospects_al_qaeda_lahoud&utm_content=20210814&utm_term=promo-email-prospects