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The Groupthink Model: The Impact of Groupthink on Decision Making — Case Study: The Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
Author: Dr Sharifullah Dorani Originally published by: CESRAN International Photo credit: Mikecook1 / Pixabay External Publication This article was originally published by CESRAN International. A short summary is provided here for readers of this website. Summary This short essay explores the enduring relevance of the Groupthink Model for understanding how small-group dynamics shape foreign…
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The Role of NATO in America’s Afghanistan War
By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* Introduction After ‘liberating Afghanistan’, the George W Bush Administration assumed that ‘the coalition of the willing’, and later North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), would shoulder responsibility[1] for the post-Taliban Afghanistan, as the US military role was assumed to win wars, not engage in peacekeeping, policing or building nations. This article…
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How the 2002 NSC Defined America’s Afghan Strategy
By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* Introduction After the Taliban was defeated and al Qaeda was on the run, the National Security Council (NSC) of the George W Bush Administration held a meeting in February 2002 in the White House Situation Room to discuss their Afghan strategy. The meeting resulted in the making of the counterterrorism…
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Iraq War’s Impact on Afghanistan and Bush War Cabinet
By Dr Sharifullah Dorani* ‘I have a real concern that given our preoccupation in Iraq, we’ve not devoted sufficient troops and funding to Afghanistan to ensure success in that mission….Afghanistan has been the forgotten war.’ President George W Bush[1] Introduction As studied in my other article,[2] the Global War on Terror (GWOT), which the…