January 14, 2013 | NPR

All Things Considered

Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Senior Advisor on Asymmetric Warfare

President Obama met last week with Afghan President Hamid Karzai about plans to remove all U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan by 2014. Counterterrorism expert Daveed Gartenstein-Ross discusses what we can learn from the Soviet Union's retreat from Afghanistan in 1989 and the lasting legacy of the U.S. presence there.

Listen to the discussion here.

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Afghanistan Pakistan