Bilal Y. Saab and Mick Mulroy

Saab, a former Pentagon senior advisor with oversight responsibilities for security cooperation in the broader Middle East, is a senior fellow and director of the Defense and Security Program at the Middle East Institute (MEI). Mulroy, a retired CIA paramilitary operations officer and U.S. Marine, an Afghanistan Veteran, and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, is a Senior Fellow at MEI.

Bilal Y. Saab and Mick Mulroy

Biden Must Keep U.S. Operatives in Afghanistan To Enable the Counterterrorism Mission

In his April 14 speech, President Joe Biden stated that despite withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan, his administration will continue to do two things from over the horizon: First, it will “reorganize our counterterrorism...