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The lessons of America’s longest war: Afghanistan still a question mark after 17 years of fighting

In the beginning, it all looked like a brilliant military victory and a validation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s new way of fighting and winning modern wars. Less that a month after the ... read more

Leaving Afghanistan, and the Lessons of America’s Longest War

Steve Coll writes about President Biden’s recent announcement that U.S. and NATO forces would withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, and about the lessons that Mikhail Gorbachev ... read more

America’s longest war ends: mistakes and lessons learned

America’s longest war ends: mistakes and lessons learned. After two decades, Afghanistan has fallen to the Taliban. What was America’s longest war all about and why is our exit from Afghanistan so ... read more

Lessons and memories from Afghanistan one year after

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan one year ago this month took me back 20 years to Sept. 11, 2001, a day of infamy originating in an al Qaeda headquarters under the Taliban's protection. read more

Ceremony In Afghanistan Officially Ends America's Longest War

U.S. troops and their NATO allies in Afghanistan have formally ended what became America's longest war, furling their flag 13 years after a 2001 invasion to topple the country's Taliban regime in ... read more

‘The Afghanistan Papers’: The truth behind America’s longest war - The Michigan Daily

Until a month ago, I had never known an America that didn’t have troops in Afghanistan. For those who witnessed the war’s beginning and watched its long drag into defeat (and especially for those ... read more

America's longest war is over | PBS NewsHour Classroom

The final flight of American troops left Afghanistan just before midnight on what is now Tuesday, August 31, in Kabul, after 20 years of war. The U.S. airlifted more than 120,000 American ... read more

America’s Longest War: A Visual History of 20 Years in Afghanistan - WSJ - The Wall Street Journal

Middle East; America’s Longest War: A Visual History of 20 Years in Afghanistan The rapid conquest of the country by the Taliban and the chaotic withdrawal of the U.S. bring an end to a war that ... read more

What We Need to Learn: Lessons From Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction | School of Law - School of Law | Case Western Reserve University

Add to Calendar: Add to Calendar: 2023-02-13 12:00:00 2023-02-13 13:00:00 What We Need to Learn: Lessons From Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction Event Description Case Law alum John F. Sopko ( ... read more

America's longest war: 20 years of missteps in Afghanistan

America's longest war is nearing its end, with a loss to the enemy it defeated in Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago, shock that the government and military it supported collapsed so quickly and ... read more