The World in 2030 Won't Look Anything Like You Think
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Joshua Foust is a fellow at the American Security Project and the author of Afghanistan Journal: Selections from Registan.net. He is also a member of the Young Atlanticist Working Group. More
Joshua's research focuses on the role of market-oriented development strategies in post-conflict environments, and on the development of metrics in understanding national security policy. He has written on strategic design for humanitarian interventions, decision-making in counterinsurgency, and the intelligence community's place in the national security discussion. Previous to joining ASP, Joshua worked for the U.S. intelligence community, where he focused on studying the non-militant socio-cultural environment in Afghanistan at the U.S. Army Human Terrain System, then the socio-cultural dynamics of irregular warfare movements at the National Ground Intelligence Center, and later on political violence in Yemen for the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Joshua is a columnist for PBS Need to Know, and blogs about Central and South Asia at the influential blog Registan.net. A frequent commentator for American and global media, Joshua appears regularly on BBC World, Aljazeera, and international public radio. Joshua is also a regular contributor to Foreign Policy's AfPak Channel, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Reuters, and the Christian Science Monitor.
...But that doesn't mean thinking isn't still important. What to make of the intelligence community's effort to forecast global events More »
... at least compared with the periods defined by the Cold War and the War on Terror. But with no guiding paradigm, where does foreign policy and national security go from here? More »
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Putting it beyond partisanship sounds high-minded, but it's ultimately hypocritical and dangerous. More »
Until Islamabad can enforce the rule of law, and as long as terror cells remain operational inside the country's borders, there's no way around it. More »
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After years of holding off on officially designating the Haqqani Network as a terror organization, in the hopes of enticing them into a peace deal, the Obama administration closes the door. More »
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How Western interest in their story risks both misunderstanding the group's mission and misdirecting attention away from the dire challenges Russian political activists now face. More »
The country's recent protests over poultry shortages suggest sanctions might be working. More »
In Yemen, drones can work if they're part of a larger strategy, but not if they are the strategy. More »
Addressing the war's failings means talking about policy, but before we do that, a reminder of why it matters. More »
The U.S. wants to repair its relationship with Pakistan while carrying out drone attacks inside the country. Can it do both? More »
The transactional U.S.-Pakistan alliance means that, once the Afghan War ends, so will their incentive to get along. More »
A practice of shoot first and ask questions later, and an over-emphasis on short-term gains, make us more reliant on these tools than we maybe should be. More »
The NATO defense collective wants to do less with more by having member states develop military specialties, like workers on an assembly line. More »
An attempted terrorist attack this week has been bookended by U.S. drone strikes in Yemen. Do we know they're effective? More »
A year after bin Laden's death, we still often talk about his group's successful or failure in somewhat exaggerated terms. The truth may in fact be somewhere in the middle. More »
Traditional aid programs are struggling in the country. But a less conventional program with less conventional goals seems to show a better model. More »
Uzbekistan is now paying its teachers and doctors in poultry, part of a long and bizarre trend of chicken diplomacy in the 20th and 21st centuries. More »
