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A Political Scientist on Why the U.S. Lost in Afghanistan


A Political Scientist on Why the U.S. Lost in Afghanistan | TIME

An interview with Dominic Tierney, author of 'The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts.'

Political Scientist Dominic Tierney Examines the Past, Present, and ...

Professor of Political Science Dominic Tierney recently joined Matt Leon of KYW Newsradio to discuss the American withdrawal from ...

Remarks by President Biden on the End of the War in Afghanistan

State Dining Room 3:28 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan -- the longest ...

SIGAR 23-05-IP Why the Afghan Government Collapsed

WHAT SIGAR REVIEWED. As of June 30, 2021, the United States had appropriated $145.0 billion for the reconstruction of Afghanistan. Of that.

Afghanistan: Strategy and War Termination - USAWC Press

Clausewitz encapsulates this rational, commonsense approach to the ending of war when he asserts: “Once the expenditure of effort exceeds the value of the ...

Afghanistan's Security Challenges under the Taliban - Crisis Group

One year after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, fighting has decreased considerably. Yet serious security problems remain, not least the foreign ...

Ex-US generals who oversaw Afghan exit describe chaos and ... - BBC

Two former generals who led the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 have testified to Congress. Mark Milley, former Joint Chiefs ...

After Action Review on Afghanistan - State Department

The decisions of both President Trump and President Biden to withdraw U.S. military forces from Afghanistan during this period provide the overall context for ...

Military Power Is Insufficient: Learning from Failure in Afghanistan

The Taliban simply had a willpower asymmetry over Western forces. An eschewing of political reality in favor of military action occurred in. Vietnam as well. In ...

What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan ...

SIGAR released its 11th lessons learned report examining the past 20 years of the U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghanistan. After spending $145 billion ...

US intervention in Afghanistan: Justifying the Unjustifiable?

In 2001, the USA invaded Afghanistan in pursuit of the War on Terror with the sup- port of NATO and over 40 countries. For almost two decades, the USA has ...

NATO and Afghanistan

For nearly 20 years, NATO Allies and partner countries had military forces deployed to Afghanistan under a United Nations (UN) Security Council mandate.

The Key Reason the U.S. Lost in Afghanistan

When the U.S. invaded Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago, it wasn't only fighting there. The second front pitted the U.S. against Pakistan, ...

Afghan War | History, Casualties, Dates, & Facts - Britannica

Afghan War (1978–92), internal conflict between the Afghan communist government, initially aided by Soviet troops, and anticommunist Islamic guerrillas ...

Life in Afghanistan remains dire 2 years after collapse of U.S. ... - PBS

Two years ago today, Taliban fighters poured into Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. The army melted away, and President Ashraf Ghani fled for his life.

US State Department report details damning failings around chaotic ...

“The decisions of both President (Donald) Trump and President (Joe) Biden to end the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan had serious ...

One Year Since the Conclusion of the Afghanistan War

We mark one year since the end of the US war in Afghanistan, and I, like so many of you, have been reflecting on the sacrifice that American Service Members, ...

Afghanistan: How it could have been different | ECFR

The 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack will now coincide with the consolidation of the second Taliban emirate in Afghanistan, ...

How to Lose a War - Yale University Press

An incisive, authoritative account of the West's failures in Afghanistan, from 9/11 to the fall of Kabul In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as...

How the Afghan War Was Lost, in Five Easy Steps

Watching Kabul fall to the Taliban has also been a difficult experience for veterans who fought there. Elliot Ackerman's forthcoming book, “The ...