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The Afghanistan Debacle Summed Up: We Suck at Nation Building
POSTMORTEM
An excellent memoir by Elliot Ackerman lays bare all the good intentions, bad policies, and missteps that led to the chaos of collapse in 2021.
James A. Warren
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Oct. 10 2022
4:48AM EDT
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