Karl Eikenberry: Recollections of a retired general

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 War00:06:42 West Point00:10:21 Korea in the 70s00:14:10 China in the 80s and 90s00:35:11 NATO and the collapse of the Communist bloc00:42:14 The Pentagon on 9/1100:44:02 Afghanistan00:51:51 NATO and Putin’s Munich speech00:54:28 Afghanistan01:10:34 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. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.