Why end of Afghan war is not end of US|led nation building

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 ...

Remarks by President Biden on the Drawdown of U.S. Forces in ...

East Room 2:09 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Earlier today, I was briefed by our senior military and national security leaders on ...

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 ...

Why end of Afghan war is not end of US-led nation building - Care.org

In his speech last month marking the close of America's Afghanistan War, President Joe Biden said the decision meant the end of major military operations ...

U.S. Relations With Afghanistan - United States Department of State

In 2012, the United States and Afghanistan concluded the Strategic Partnership Agreement to strengthen our bilateral relationship, support ...

In Afghanistan, Was a Loss Better than Peace?

... Afghans and others — over two decades. The U.S. government spent $2.3 trillion, and the war led to the deaths of 2324 U.S. military ...

Our Biggest Errors in Afghanistan and What We Should Learn from ...

The Afghan government and military collapse so quickly? Was the effort misguided from the start, based on flawed assumptions and policy design?

Obama announces troop reductions, way forward in Afghanistan

WASHINGTON - Thanks to the tremendous progress U.S., coalition and Afghan troops have made, the United States will draw down the number of troops in ...

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.

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.

The war in Afghanistan: Justified at first; a disaster in the end

The Afghanistan War was the longest war in American history. Launched in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to punish ...

House Republicans release report blaming Biden for chaotic end to ...

Earlier probes have concluded former President Donald Trump — who made the deal with the Taliban agreeing to withdraw U.S. forces — shares ...

The Collapse of Afghanistan | Journal of Democracy

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Afghan republic fell because societal values were incompatible with democracy and the country was simply ungovernable.

Why end of Afghan war is not end of US-led nation building

U.S. military-backed efforts to build democracies abroad are over for now. But that does not mean America has given up its nation-building ...

Did The September 11 Attacks Start And End U.S. 'Forever Wars'?

The U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan following the 9/11 terrorist attacks ended in failure after a costly and nearly 20-year war and effort to establish a ...

The End Of Nation-Building - Noema Magazine

History offers a guide for why the American project in Afghanistan went wrong — and for the future of foreign engagement in the country.

Timeline: The U.S. War in Afghanistan - Council on Foreign Relations

The Taliban surged back to power two decades after U.S.-led forces toppled their regime in what led to the United States' longest war.

Did the Afghan Failure Lead to the Ukraine War? by Carl Bildt

Carl Bildt revisits the fall of Kabul to consider its implications for America and the world, one year later.

Why Afghan nation-building was always destined to fail

The Taliban returning to power opens a new, but also rather inevitable, chapter in a turbulent history for Afghanistan since the 1979 Soviet invasion.

Remarks by President Biden on Afghanistan - U.S. Mission to NATO

American troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. We ...