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I'm not questioning the value of those missions -- they were successful in the relief of pressing humanitarian problems -- but what is the overarching strategic thinking in the EU with regard to the Congo
NATO leader questions EU policy Nov 04, 2008
Bin Laden remains one person, an important person that we need to bring to justice, but he remains one person in a much larger global international terrorist network
General: Bin Laden only 'one person' Feb 13, 2007
Could you have an alliance in which you have one group that is always going into the toughest places and fighting and taking casualties, and you have a second group that is in a different category
Caveats put NATO troops at risk Dec 06, 2006
You do have challenges where Taliban has moved into an area you could perhaps call vacuum, or at least very weak governance
No cut in U.S. force in Afghanistan soon Sep 23, 2006
There will be an increase in violence in the spring, and we can forecast an increase in violence in the summer
Canada takes control of S. Afghanistan Feb 28, 2006
Karl Winfrid Eikenberry (born 1951) is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General currently serving as the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
Eikenberry graduated from Goldsboro High School in Goldsboro, North Carolina in 1969 and then attended West Point, where he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant upon graduation in 1973.
He received an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Harvard, where he would later return as National Security Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and an M.A. in political science from Stanford, where he was also a Ph.D candidate. In addition, Eikenberry has studied in Hong Kong at the UK Ministry of Defence Chinese Language School, earning the Foreign Office's Interpreter’s Certificate for Mandarin Chinese, and Nanjing University, earning an advanced degree in Chinese History.