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New book documents 20 years of war and what went wrong in Afghanistan

September 08, 2021

The United States’ messy withdrawal and the quick Taliban takeover of Afghanistan shouldn’t have been a surprise after one reads the new book The Afghanistan Papers – A Secret History of the War by Pulitzer Prize nominated Washington post reporter Craig Whitlock. Using resources that included oral histories and internal documents Whitlock details “the U.S. … Continue reading "New book documents 20 years of war and what went wrong in Afghanistan"