Matthew Hoh

senior fellow

Common Defense Campaign: Afghanistan Study Group

Email: mphoh@ciponline.org

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Matthew Hoh is the director of the Afghanistan Study Group, a network of foreign and public policy experts and professionals advocating for a change in U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. A former State Department official, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan over U.S. strategic policy and goals in Afghanistan in September 2009. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew served in Iraq; first in 2004-2005 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-2007 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-2008. Matthew’s writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post and his resignation letter has been cited as an Essential Document by the Council on Foreign Relations. Matthew was recently named the 2010 Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling.

• Commentary

  Vietnam and Afghanistan: The more things change...

  by Matthew Hoh

  Feb-08-2012 | Article

  

Two lengthy and devastating wars separated by three decades.

 One fought in the jungles of Vietnam and one in the mountains and deserts of Afghanistan... Read More »

  Lieutenant Colonel Davis, Death and Deception in Afghanistan

  by Matthew Hoh

  Feb-06-2012 | Article

  In late December, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta assured Representative Frank Wolf (R-VA) that the United States was "making undeniable progress" in its war in Afghanistan and that a congressionally mandated, independent assessment of the war was "not necessary." However, recent media reports of internal Department of Defense and Intelligence Community assessments of the war contradict, again, claims of progress... Read More »

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• In the Press

  It's Time to Bring the Troops Home

  Matthew Hoh

  May-02-2012 | Quotes

  Davis' remarks echo judgments made earlier by Marine Captain Matthew Hoh and Colonel Andrew Bacevich, and thousands of veterans of the Afghan war... Read More »

  Conscientious Quitter

  Matthew Hoh

  Feb-23-2012 | Interviews

  Matthew Hoh spent years fighting in Iraq as a Marine, then he joined the State Department and was assigned to Afghanistan. What he saw there convinced him that the only thing he could do in good conscience was quit... Read More »

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