Why America Lost the War in Afghanistan: A Requiem Essay

Why America Lost the War in Afghanistan: A Requiem Essay

We won the battles in Afghanistan and still lost the war because Washington pursued an unsuitable, unfeasible, and unacceptable project to remake a tribal society while Congress abdicated and our generals saluted.

The Manufactured Fights That Hollowed Out America

The Manufactured Fights That Hollowed Out America

America did not stumble into this moment of political violence by accident; it was led here by years of manufactured crises that traded real solutions for spectacle and left trust in ashes.