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One of the leaders of the so-called “generals’ revolt” against then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2006, ret. Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, is about to join the progressive National Security Network, NSN sources confirm.
Eaton, a former infantry officer, had a 30-year Army career that including deployments to Somalia, Bosnia and Iraq. After retiring from the [...]

Right as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finishes his first Washington encounter with the Obama administration, the administration is adding a progressive voice to its Middle East policy team. Ilan Goldenberg, the policy director of the National Security Network, starts next week as a special adviser to Colin Kahl, the deputy assistant secretary of defense [...]

I mused earlier about how establishing a national consensus on the Afghanistan might still be possible. As it turns out, Jason Rosenbaum, one of the progressive forces behind Get Afghanistan Right, read Les Gelb’s op-ed in The New York Times and noted approvingly that Gelb, a founder of the National Security Network — which doesn’t [...]

In my piece today about the rudderlessness of Republican foreign policy, I have a brief digression into an internecine progressive dispute on Afghanistan:
On Afghanistan, there is an ideological struggle about what war strategy should be — but it’s confined to the left. A coalition of progressive activists called Get Afghanistan Right has argued against the [...]

Speaking at the Center for American Progress, Afghanistan’s foreign minister, Rangin Dadfar Spanta, made a full-throated plea for the United States not to back away from supporting Afghan democracy. “In recent weeks and months, we have heard some views here and elsewhere that we need to reduce our expectations from Afghanistan, and instead pursue ‘realistic’ [...]

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