Op-Ed: The U.S. faces new kinds of threats around the globe, but we have failed to adapt
U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
If Russia offered bounties to the Taliban for attacking U.S. forces and their allies in Afghanistan, why hasn’t President Trump taken public and decisive action?
By Seth G. Jones and Juan C. Zarate
July 30, 2020
3 AM
It has now been more than five months since a U.S. intelligence assessment included in President Trump’s Daily Brief suggested that Russia was paying bounties to Taliban fighters for attacking U.S. and other foreign forces in Afghanistan. And it has been more than a month since news of the intelligence reports became public.
Yet the president and his administration still have not adequately denounced Russian activity or outlined a strategy to counter this type of hybrid warfare.
It’s possible, of course, that countermeasures unknown to the public are underway, but silence from Washington on the matter is a bad idea. It emboldens U.S. adversaries, who are increasingly using irregular means to undermine U.S. interests.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-07-30/foreign-policy-threats-trump
