Afghanistan Study Group

The Afghanistan Study Group refers to several distinct initiatives aimed at reviewing United States foreign policy and strategy in the region. The most prominent version was a congressionally mandated bipartisan panel active from 2019 to 2021.

Bipartisan panel

The bipartisan panel known as the Afghanistan Study Group was established by Congress in December 2019.[1] The group was tasked with identifying policy recommendations for a peace settlement.[2]

The group was under the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and led by co-chairs Kelly Ayotte, a Republican politician, Joseph Dunford, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Nancy Lindborg, then-president of USIP.[1] On February 3, 2021, the group released its final report "A Pathway for Peace in Afghanistan."[1][3] Its primary recommendation was for the Biden administration to extend the May 1st, 2021 withdrawal deadline set by the 2020 United States–Taliban deal.[1][4]

Other groups

  • In late 2011, Congress approved a separate measure to create a bipartisan Afghanistan-Pakistan study group as part of the fiscal 2012 Defense spending bill.[5] It was promoted by Rep. Frank Wolf and intended to be modeled after the Iraq Study Group.[5] Despite congressional approval and a $1 million budget allocation, the group was opposed by the Obama administration's defense officials including Leon Panetta and Martin Dempsey, who felt such a group would be redundant and unnecessary.[5]
  • In August 2010, another group called the Afghanistan Study Group, which met in 2009 and 2010, released a report titled "A New Way Forward: Rethinking U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan." [6] The group described itself as "an ad hoc group of public policy practitioners, former U.S. government officials, academics, business representatives, policy-concerned activists and association leaders concerned with the Obama administration’s policy course in Afghanistan and to a more limited degree, Pakistan."[6] Notable members included Selig S. Harrison as well as Matthew Hoh (director) and Stephen Walt.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Macias, Amanda (3 February 2021). "Biden should keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan past May deadline, study group says". CNBC.
  2. ^ "Subcommittee Examined U.S. Strategy in Afghanistan with Afghanistan Study Group | The U.S. House Committee on Oversight". oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
  3. ^ https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/afghanistan_study_group_final_report_a_pathway_for_peace_in_afghanistan.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ^ "U.S. Should Slow Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Bipartisan Panel Urges (Published 2021)". The New York Times. 3 February 2021.
  5. ^ a b c Palleschi, Amanda (23 December 2011). "Congress passes Afghanistan-Pakistan study group measure opposed by Panetta, Dempsey". Government Executive.
  6. ^ a b https://www.kas.de/documents/283221/283270/7_file_storage_file_1502_2.pdf/8566b163-1045-5b4c-5854-2f18cddb9212. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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