Andrew Exum
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The Afghan War Took an Awful Toll. I Would Still Serve Again.
It’s not a surprise that many American veterans are highly cynical about these wars. We are also conflicted about our own service. → Read More
Counterinsurgency Isn’t the Answer
Be wary of those who seek to apply the lessons of our campaigns abroad to our political challenges at home. → Read More
US Arms Sales to the Gulf Have Failed
Despite spending billions of dollars on hardware, our regional partners don’t have the capabilities we need. → Read More
How to Really Honor the Troops
Thousands of soldiers have successfully led combat units without committing atrocities. Pardoning war crimes dishonors them. → Read More
Andrew Exum
Andrew Exum is a contributing editor at The Atlantic. From 2015 to 2016, he was the U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for Middle East policy. → Read More
Egypt and America Are Destined to Disappoint Each Other
Government news resource covering technology, performance, employment, telework, cybersecurity, and more for federal employees. → Read More
What Were We Doing In Iraq Anyway?
Reflections on a war gone wrong. → Read More
Shawn Brimley's Town
Washington, D.C., can be an easy city to mock or resent—but it’s full of workers who’ve given up opportunities to serve something larger than themselves. → Read More
Shawn Brimley’s Town
Shawn Brimley’s Town By Andrew Exum January 11, 2018 We live in an era in which writers lament the end of expertise as a virtue and the president of the United States proudly eschews the nuances and details of his own policies, preferring to spend his days watching television. Nonetheless, elsewhere in the federal government each day, committed men and women from the three branches of government… → Read More
What Trump Got Right in Foreign Policy in 2017
For one thing, the Islamic State is largely defeated. → Read More
What Trump Got Right in Foreign Policy in 2017
What Trump Got Right in Foreign Policy in 2017 By Andrew Exum January 4, 2018 There is a temptation, when a new presidential administration comes into office, for its members to assume everything the previous administration did was idiotic, and that a wiser course of action would have been to do the precise opposite. We saw this in 2017, for example, when President Trump and some of his aides… → Read More
The Hubris of Hezbollah
How the militant group will fumble into the next Middle Eastern war. → Read More
The Hubris of Hezbollah
The Hubris of Hezbollah By Andrew Exum September 18, 2017 Two weeks ago, James Mattis, the U.S. secretary of defense, attempted to justify the provision of U.S. arms to Ukraine. “Defensive arms,” he said, “are not provocative unless you are the aggressor.” The claim was as banal as it was wrong. Secretary Mattis’s statement made for good politics, and it also makes a degree of intuitive sense.… → Read More
How Mattis May Get Himself in Trouble With Trump
The secretary of defense could run afoul of his boss if his review of the policy on transgender troops follows the facts to their conclusion. → Read More
How Mattis May Get Himself in Trouble With Trump
How Mattis May Get Himself in Trouble With Trump By Andrew Exum August 31, 2017 Washington, D.C., has been especially sensitive to more signs of disloyalty from the president’s advisors ever since both the president’s chief economic advisor and his secretary of state very publicly and clearly broke ranks last week to criticize the president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville. Some of… → Read More
When Will Enough Be Enough in Afghanistan?
At some point, a president might have to acknowledge to the military: We fought hard, but we have other, greater priorities elsewhere. → Read More
When Will Enough Be Enough in Afghanistan?
At some point, a president might have to acknowledge to the military: We fought hard, but we have other, greater priorities elsewhere. → Read More
When Will Enough Be Enough in Afghanistan?
When Will Enough Be Enough in Afghanistan? By Andrew Exum August 22, 2017 Trump is the American Everyman on Afghanistan. He is frustrated that we’re still there after 16 years—who wouldn’t be?—and questions why we’ve spent so much blood and treasure in a land-locked country in Central Asia when roads and bridges go unrepaired at home. But Trump the president is not Trump the private citizen and,… → Read More
Why Military Chiefs Are Condemning White Supremacy
The U.S. armed forces have had troubles with extremists enlisting in the past, and they don’t want it to happen again. → Read More
Why Military Chiefs Are Condemning White Supremacy
Why Military Chiefs Are Condemning White Supremacy By Andrew Exum August 17, 2017 Since the president of the United States cast his lot in with white supremacists in his #NotAllNazis moment this week, the nation’s military service chiefs have responded with full-throated statements rejecting extremism and intolerance. These statements have alarmed many. “If we lived in a different sort of… → Read More