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American Defense and Security

Military failures that presidents survived—and some they didn't

President John Kennedy declared about April 1961’s Bay of Pigs fiasco, “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.” Just a few days after Fidel Castro thwarted 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban freedom fighters who invaded their homeland to overthrow the Marxist dictator, JFK told the press, “I am the responsible officer of this government.”

The Hill

Why We Need a Sane Republican Party

Ambassador Eric Edelman was Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the George W. Bush administration and served as the U.S. ambassador to Turkey and Finland. A strident critic of former President Donald Trump, he is among the foremost voices of the “Never Trump” movement. In a wide-ranging conversation, Ambassador Edelman and Yascha Mounk discuss the trajectory of the Republican party and Donald Trump’s political future, Turkey’s illiberal slide under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the fragility of democratic norms worldwide.

Eric Edelman

Joe Biden's political future now hangs in the balance at Kabul airport

In a few days everything changed. On the eve of August 15 Joe Biden could still say to himself: "So far, everything is fine ..." His first seven months in the White House were crowned with success: acceleration of the vaccination campaign, adoption of a $ 1900 billion stimulus, lower unemployment, booming popularity. Then the Taliban swept over Kabul. Traumatic, because they recall the fall of Saigon in 1975, the first images of the sauve-qui-peut at the airport were only an hors d'oeuvre.

Barbara Perry

Eric Edelman: The Crisis in Civil-Military Relations

Senior Fellow Eric Edelman is interviewed on "Conversations with Bill Kristol"

Eric Edelman

Foreign Affairs

How resettling its refugees might help Afghanistan's future

Migrants help their home countries by building trade ties and by sending back both cash and political knowledge.

David Leblang and Margaret Peters

The Washington Post

Amb. Eric Edelman on the Catastrophe in Afghanistan

On today's podcast, Ambassador Eric Edelman, a former undersecretary of defense for policy, joins host Charlie Sykes to discuss the collapse of Afghanistan, the future of terrorism, and the damage to America's reputation.

Eric Edelman