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▪️Title: #TheAfghanistanPapers
▪️Genre: War history
▪️Published: 2021
▪️Author: @CraigMWhitlock
▪️Length: 368
▪️Description: Secret history of the US' war in Afghanistan
▪️ Ratings : 4.44/5 @goodreads

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Two weeks after d 9/11 attacks, a reporter asked Donald Rumsfeld, “Would US officials lie to media about military ops in order to mislead enemy?”

Rumsfeld responded by quoting Churchill,“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
On Oct 7, 2001, when the US military began bombing AFG, no one foresaw that it would turn into the most protracted war in the US history—longer than WW-I, WW-II
& Vietnam combined.
For the 1st time, NATO invoked Article 5, which states "attack on one(country) is attack on all."
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