What the Failure of the Afghanistan Oversight Regime Says About the Future
摘要
There was a rush to assign blameCivil-military relationsblame assignment politics in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the TalibanAfghanistan WarTaliban takeover’s subsequent takeover of the country. John SopkoSIGARJohn Sopko testimony’s final testimony to Congress in October 2021 added to that chorus somewhat, drawing heavily on the What We Need to Learn, Stabilization, and The Risk of Doing the Wrong Thing Perfectly lessons learnedSIGARlessons learned reports reports to fully map the long road to strategic failureAfghanistan Warstrategic failure (Sopko 2021).