There's a lot in the Afghanistan Papers but one big takeway is top military and political leadership knew for at least 10 years (maybe more) that war was unwinnable. They lied about that in order to kick the can down the road & leave problem to successors.
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Now you tell us.
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America spent trillions and cost hundreds of thousands of lives on a region of the world that is impossible to conquer.
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Didn't they literally just plagiarize the McNamara papers that said Vietnam was unwinnable?
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I found “Partisan Intervention and the Transformation of Afghanistan’s Civil War” in the AHR to be a good, short read on the dysfunction inside the Coalition.
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Tell me a story I haven't heard before.
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