This week, our guest is Karl Eikenberry, a retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, whose many titles include the defense attaché at the U.S. Embassy in China, Commander of the Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan. Because General Eikenberry has had such a long and fascinating career and often occupied key roles at important pivot points in U.S. policy, we decided to devote the whole interview to an examination of his biography.

Time Stamps:

• 00:01:04 Childhood experience of the Cold War
• 00:06:42 West Point
• 00:10:21 Korea in the 70s
• 00:14:10 China in the 80s and 90s
• 00:35:11 NATO and the collapse of the Communist bloc
• 00:42:14 The Pentagon on 9/11
• 00:44:02 Afghanistan
• 00:51:51 NATO and Putin’s Munich speech
• 00:54:28 Afghanistan
• 01:10:34 Ukraine

*The Trialogue Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

**The first twelve episodes of this podcast were published by the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.