Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Two Years After the Fall of Afghanistan – What Have We Learned?

Two Years After the Fall of Afghanistan – What Have We Learned?

  • August 23, 2023

Two years ago this month, Taliban forces rolled into Kabul, completing their takeover of Afghanistan. After 20 years of US-led effort and investment in the Afghan government and security forces, they collapsed almost instantly in the face of an enemy with less training and rudimentary equipment. To understand the sources of this strategic failure, Dr. Carter Malkasian, one of the foremost experts on the war in Afghanistan, joins host Bob Hamilton on this episode of Chain Reaction.

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