The NBER report found that each casualty incident provoked more insurgent violence and use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).DreyfussBobAUTHORNationDreyfuss, Bob, How the US War in Afghanistan Fueled the Taliban Insurgency (Nation, 10/7/2013, Vol. 297, Issue 14, pp. 1-4)...
“This is a bad idea; my country should not be doing this.” And the war, in which theU.S. was directly involved for 20 years, marched on.
In November, President Donald Trump's administration said it would sharply cut the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 2,500 by mid-January, stopping short of a threatened full withdrawal from America's longest war after fierce opposition from allies at h...
Former Joint Chiefs Chairman testifies over US withdrawal from Afghanistan Gen. Mark Milley said last year that he has "lots of regrets" about how the United States' 20-year war in Afghanistan ended. 10 months ago Dr. Sima Samar on her life advocating for equality and justice in Afghanistan...
"The Americans do not know how to fight a guerrilla war," said the official, who spoke to CBS News on condition of anonymity. "They came in with all their military might and their technology and thought, 'How can these people exist against us?' Now, as they leave, it is the rule ...
20 years in Afghanistan: America's longest war 在阿富汗的20年:美国最长的战争 Updated 1348 GMT (2148 HKT) April 16, 2021 更新时间:2021年4月16日 13点48 (香港时间 21点48 ) US soldiers fire artillery in Afghanistan's Kandahar province in June 2011. Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in...
war, a strategic area that both the U.S.-backed government and the insurgency have been committed to winning. An hour earlier, a massive car bomb had hit the Afghan intelligence compound nearby, knocking me and my translator to the floor while we were interviewing Omar and showering us with...
(Placename) a republic in central Asia: became independent in 1919; occupied by Soviet troops, 1979–89; controlled by mujaheddin forces from 1992 until 1996 when Taliban forces seized power; in the US-led 'war on terror' (2001) the Taliban were overthrown and replaced by an interim admini...
Within months, the Taliban were defeated and Osama bin Laden and top al Qaeda militants fled across the border into Pakistan. But the war - which has cost all sides tens of thousands of lives - dragged on for years as the US tried to establish a stable, functioning state in one of t...
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