“How shall we evaluate President Trump’s new Afghanistan strategy? One useful way is to measure it against Caspar Weinberger’s succinct framework for sending US troops to fight abroad. In a 1984 speech at the National Press Club, the then-defense secretary laid out six principles…”

Dave Patterson, SMA Executive Advisor, provides his analysis in Defense One.

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