Paul Jay in this third part of our interview with Lawrence Korb, former Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, talks about Barack Obama’s foreign policy in Afghanistan. “The surge has taken on an almost mystical quality,” says Korb, adding that, “Afghanistan has been going on autopilot since the United States decided to go to […]
Author Archives: Lawrence J. Korb
Lawrence J. Korb is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Senior Adviser to the Center for Defense Information. He served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and Logistics) under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1985. In that position, he administered about seventy percent of the Defense budget.
