Stephen Biddle

George Washington University / Council on Foreign Relations

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Stephen Biddle is a professor of political science and international relations at George Washington University and a senior fellow for defense policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. A former associate professor at the US Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute and the author of Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle, Biddle also served as a member of General Stanley McChrystal's "strategic assessment group" in Afghanistan.

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This week, the Pentagon gave President Trump its best-laid plans to accomplish his campaign promise to accelerate the crushing of ISIS.

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America's war in Afghanistan has been in the news this week with reports about the pace of withdrawal and the number of US troops who will stay in that country after 2014.

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