The Trump administration's Afghanistan policy. Issue 9 (21st October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Is Part Of: Strategic comments. Volume 23:Issue 9(2017)
• Page Start: i
• Page End: iii
• Publication Date: 2017-10-21
• Subjects: World politics -- 1989- -- Periodicals; Security, International -- Periodicals; Strategy -- Periodicals; Military policy -- Periodicals; 320.9
• DOI: 10.1080/13567888.2017.1388018
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-7888

Abstract

Abstract : In addition to reducing terrorist threats, US President Donald Trump's new Afghanistan policy seeks to roll back the Taliban on the battlefield and pressure the group into an acceptable political settlement with far fewer US troops than Barack Obama deployed. Trump has also proposed involving India more closely in Afghanistan's economic development, which stands to antagonise Pakistan, the Taliban's key backer. In this light, it appears unlikely that the new policy will succeed.