Haviland Smith: On sending additional troops to Afghanistan

Editor’s note: Haviland Smith is a retired CIA Station Chief who served in East and West Europe as well as the Middle East. He was Chief of the counterterrorism staff and executive assistant to the CIA’s deputy director.
The development and implementation of the Trump administration’s current Afghan policy appears to have been deferred to the Pentagon. All we know about Trump policy toward that region is that he vowed during the presidential campaign to completely destroy ISIS,