3 Great Lessons from The Great Defeat and Retreat
From Deliberate, Self-Inflicted, and Unforced Strategic Errors
13 min readAug 16, 2022
One year ago, and after nearly 20 years of foreign occupation led by the United States (US), Afghanistan was liberated by the Taliban, an indigenous Afghani force that was defeated by US-led Allied forces in 2001. At the beginning of 2019, soldiers from 39 countries, including…
