A Lost War: A Conversation with Victor Davis Hanson and H. R. McMaster on Afghanistan’s Past, Present, and Future
Uncommon Knowledge
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What Was Winning in Afghanistan?
The wars as victory knows better than anybody, right? Wars do not, do not ever appear linear in terms of their trajectory. They are based on a continuous interaction between our forces and the enemy. And then policies and strategies shift overtime. We neglected really what was necessary to consolidate gains in afghanistan. Then when we woke up to the idea, well, heck, we do have to do more, we actually provided a whole bunch of assistants yonow with a great deal of enthusiasm and no finesse'
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