Washington's newest major national security think tank is
upping its Afghanistan IQ even further; Retired Lt. Gen. David Barno is joining the Center for a New American Security.
Barno, the commander of combined forces in Afghanistan from
2003-2005, will join an already impressive list of Afghanistan and Iraq experts
at CNAS. CEO Nathanial Fick was a Marine Corps Infantry officer there and
later taught counterinsurgency in Kabul. President John
Nagl served in Iraq as a lieutenant colonel after writing the
counterinsurgency volume Learning
to Eat Soup with a Knife. Fellow Andrew Exum served multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and
advised current commander Gen. Stanley
McChrystal.
Barno was most recently
the head of National Defense University's Near East South Asia Center for
Strategic Studies. In comments reported
today, he was optimistic about the current mission in Afghanistan, telling NPR that Afghanistan "could look a
lot different in the next six months or a year from now," depending on
governance and security.
Barno will move over to CNAS in May, where he will have a
broad portfolio as senior advisor and senior fellow, including defense policy,
veterans' affairs, and other topics. CNAS was started up in 2007 by now
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Kurt
Campbell and Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy.
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