Book Launch: Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan

Please join the CSIS Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism program on Friday, October 31 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET, for a virtual discussion with Dr. Paul D. Miller, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and Senior Fellow with the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. 

CSIS experts Dr. Daniel Byman and Alexander Palmer will join Dr. Miller for a conversation on his new book, Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan. Choosing Defeat offers a remarkable look inside presidential decision-making during the war in Afghanistan and draws lessons for U.S. security policy and strategic leadership. This discussion will explore the complexities on the ground in Afghanistan, address some of the key bureaucratic challenges identified in Dr. Miller’s book, and analyze the pivotal decision points that shaped U.S. policy during America’s longest war. 

This event is made possible through general support to CSIS.