America’s allies believe the Biden administration’s credibility is deteriorating on the world stage and that it has lost control of escalation management in conflict zones, namely the Middle East and Ukraine. This Washington Examiner series, Lost Authority, will look at the reasons why. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

The United States’s counterterrorism landscape has changed in the three years since the military withdrew from Afghanistan, ending its nearly two-decade war with the Taliban back in power.