by Joshua Foust | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
An MQM-74C aerial target drone launches from the deck of the dock landing ship USS Tortuga for a scheduled missile exercise. Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Cmdr. James Ridgeway/Released Cross-posted from Joshua Foust’s column for PBS’ Need To Know. Drones are a hot topic...
by Joshua Foust | Sep 10, 2012 | Monitor
ASP Fellow Joshua Foust sat down to discuss pressing security issues that are relevant to the election this November. He offers his thoughts on a range of important subjects that are critical to America’s national security – the war in Afghanistan, the rise of drone...
by Joshua Foust | Sep 6, 2012 | Monitor
Injured Afghan men arrive at a hospital in the back of a truck, along with the dead bodies of other victims, after a suicide attack on a funeral in Durbaba district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012. Photo: AP Photo/Rahmat Gul...
by Joshua Foust | Jul 17, 2012 | Monitor
The Washington Post reports: The United States and its allies have devoted years of effort and billions of dollars to improve the delivery of basic services in rural Afghanistan. If Afghan leadership were to have taken hold anywhere, it might well have been in Karz, a...
by Joshua Foust | Jul 16, 2012 | Monitor
Trudy Rubin quotes the outgoing ambassador to Afghanistan: “When I first got here in January 2002,” [Ryan] Crocker says, “9 percent of Afghans had access to health care. There were 20,000 mobile phones. Now there are 16 million mobile subscribers and...
