Hidden Forces
Description
In Episode 206, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Jonathan Schroden, who has served as a strategic advisor on Afghanistan to the US military since 2008, about the humanitarian and political disaster that is currently unfolding there.
The two discuss (1) the merits of withdrawal, (2) the reasons behind America’s defeat in Afghanistan, and (3) the longer-term implications for American foreign policy, terrorism, and the security of Western interests in the Greater Middle East.