{"id":2065,"date":"2017-05-11T21:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2017-05-11T21:59:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T21:59:46","slug":"top-u-s-intelligence-official-security-situation-in-afghanistan-will-most-certainly-deteriorate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/11\/top-u-s-intelligence-official-security-situation-in-afghanistan-will-most-certainly-deteriorate\/","title":{"rendered":"TOP U.S. INTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL : SECURITY SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN WILL \u201cMOST CERTAINLY DETERIORATE\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/US-TROOPS-AFGHANISTAN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2066\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/US-TROOPS-AFGHANISTAN-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/US-TROOPS-AFGHANISTAN-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/US-TROOPS-AFGHANISTAN-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/US-TROOPS-AFGHANISTAN-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/US-TROOPS-AFGHANISTAN-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/US-TROOPS-AFGHANISTAN-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/05\/US-TROOPS-AFGHANISTAN-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"author vcard\">Sourced : The Washington Free Beacon <\/span><\/p>\n<p>By: Natalie Johnson<\/p>\n<p>Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told Congress on Thursday that the security environment in Afghanistan will worsen over the next year amid a deadlock in the nation&#8217;s drawn-out war.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The intelligence community assesses that the political and security situation in Afghanistan will almost certainly deteriorate through 2018, even with a modest increase in military assistance by the United States and its partners,&#8221; Coats told members of the Senate intelligence committee. &#8220;Meanwhile, we assess that the Taliban is likely to continue to make gains, especially in rural areas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coats testified the performance of Afghan security forces is expected to decline due to a combination of Taliban operations, combat casualties, desertions, poor logistics support, and weak leadership. He said Baghdad will remain reliant on foreign military aid to prevent a government collapse until it strikes a peace agreement with the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Image Sourced : By Tech. Sgt. Efren Lopez, U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at : http:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/top-u-s-intel-official-security-situation-afghanistan-will-certainly-deteriorate\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced : The Washington Free Beacon By: Natalie Johnson Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told Congress on Thursday that the security environment in Afghanistan will worsen over the next year amid a deadlock in the nation&#8217;s drawn-out war. &#8220;The intelligence community assesses that the political and security situation in Afghanistan will almost certainly deteriorate&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2017\/05\/11\/top-u-s-intelligence-official-security-situation-in-afghanistan-will-most-certainly-deteriorate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TOP U.S. INTELLIGENCE OFFICIAL : SECURITY SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN WILL \u201cMOST CERTAINLY DETERIORATE\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1490,513,997,586],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","tag-afghan","tag-afghanistan","tag-national-intelligence","tag-taliban","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2067,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}