President Biden Should Immediately Do an About-face on Afghanistan
As the Taliban are about to capture Afghanistan, President Biden has the chance to do the right thing and avoid the mistake Obama made in Iraq in 2011.
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As the Taliban are about to capture Afghanistan, President Biden has the chance to do the right thing and avoid the mistake Obama made in Iraq in 2011.
Yet another district capital has fallen to the Taliban who are now making daily gains as the Afghan National Army is swept aside.
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The following Op-Ed was written by Fred Galvin (USMC retired). Generals Mattis and General Petraeus collaborated and published the U.S. Army’s Field Manual 3-24 on counterinsurgency operations (COIN) in 2006; it later became Joint Publication 3-24. The publication contained the lessons the generals learned from nearly 19 years of operations in Afghanistan and 16 years […]
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