What the US didn’t learn in Afghanistan

The chaotic collapse of the Afghan military in recent months made starkly clear that the US$83 billion that US taxpayers spent to create and fund those security forces achieved little. But a new report last week by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction also reveals the depths of failure of the United States’ entire 20-year, $145 billion effort to reconstruct (or construct, in some cases) Afghanistan’s civil society. Read more…