Afghanistan

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  7/26/2020
  

  Killing Democracy in America: The Military-Industrial Complex as a Cytokine Storm

  by William Astore

  Sadly, it’s a reasonable bet that in the long run, even with Donald Trump as president, America has a better chance of defeating COVID-19 than the virus of forever war. 

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• SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
  6/28/2020
  

  Letters From An American: June 27, 2020

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  A series of stories from the Trump administration over the weekend don't add up.   

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  6/28/2020
  

  Trump Likely did Throw US Troops in Afghanistan under the Bus, but Why would the Russians have Targeted Them?

  by Juan Cole

  In Washington, a leak like this makes you ask questions. Who leaked the information and why?

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  3/22/2020
  

  What Americans Don’t Know About Military Families

  by Andrea Mazzarino

  All evidence indicates that military service tends to erode the fabric of family life and that, in reality, the state of America’s most fundamental union is anything but strong.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  The Cost of Loyalty: A Crisis of Ethics in the Military

  by Timothy Bakken

  Military leadership has inculcated a self-serving culture of loyalty that prevents a long-overdue reckoning with its failures. 

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• SOURCE: LawFare
  1/21/20
  

  Why Haven't the Afghanistan Papers Gotten More Attention?

  by David V. Gioe

  The Afghanistan Papers and the Perils of Historical Analogy

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/15/19
  

  Lessons From Battling the Pentagon for Four Decades

  by William D. Hartung

  The Stubborn Persistence of the Military-Industrial State 

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  12/17/19
  

  The (Failed) War on Terror's Precursor

  by Danny Sjursen

  It Was “Progress” All the Way Then, Too

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• 12/15/19
  

  A Real Red Wedding Massacre Puts Lie to Trump's Claim That he "Obliterated" ISIS

  by Brian Glyn Williams and Javed Rezayee

  The human cost of the war in Afghanistan. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/9/19
  

  After 3 Year FOIA Lawsuit, Washington Post Publishes Afghanistan Papers, A Secret History of the War

  More than 2,000 pages of interviews and memos reveal a secret history of the war.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/9/19
  

  'Modern-day Pentagon Papers’: Comparing the Afghanistan Papers to blockbuster Vietnam War study

  Both studies were commissioned by obscure Defense Department agencies, Both are massive, and Both involved court battles, but 1971 was more dramatic. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  10/07/2019
  

  'We Are Inside the Fire': An Oral History of the War in Afghanistan

  by Fahim Abed and Fatima Faizi

  Afghans have endured four decades of conflict, with little prospect of peace. This is the story of the last 18 years since the American invasion, as told by the men and women who’ve lived it.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  9/19/19
  

  Ending the Afghan War Won’t End the Killing

  by Stephanie Savell

  Since 2015, casualties from explosive remnants of war and abandoned IEDs have been rising rapidly.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  September 9, 2019
  

  On or off, peace talks with the Taliban spell disaster for Afghanistan

  by Ali A. Olomi

  With tweets on Saturday, President Trump killed secretly planned peace talks with the Taliban at Camp David. If history is any indication, the consequences of the Trump administration’s reckless attempt at an agreement and even hastier reversal will be borne out by Afghans themselves — a reality that Afghans know all too well.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/24/19
  

  Peace With Honor: What Vietnam Can Teach Us About How to Leave Afghanistan

  by Thurston Clarke

  Nixon promised the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War would bring “peace with honor.” They brought neither, and it now appears that the Afghan War is headed for a similar denouement.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/15/19
  

  Lessons From Vietnam on Leaving Afghanistan

  by George C. Herring

  There’s No Good Way to End a Bad War, but Some Options Are Worse Than Others.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  3/26/19
  

  Turning Our Backs on Nuremberg

  by Rebecca Gordon

  John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/6/19
  

  How the U.S. Departure From Afghanistan Could Echo Kissinger's Moves in Vietnam

  by David Kaiser

  Neither involvement, in retrospect, was ever likely to have succeeded, because the political forces the U.S. chose to support were too weak to deal with an armed opposition supported from a neighboring territory.

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• 2/2/19
  

  Is This the Right Way to End a War?

  Many experts worry that the U.S. is repeating the mistakes of Vietnam in Afghanistan.

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• SOURCE: National Security Archive
  1/29/19
  

  National Security Archive Releases New documents on Soviet 1979 Invasion of Afghanistan

  Declassified Documents Show Moscow’s Fear of an Afghan Flip, U.S. Diplomat’s Meeting with Afghan Leader Helped Put Soviets Over the Edge