The Post’s “The Afghanistan Papers” book will publish on Aug. 31.
The account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the U.S. government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts. wapo.st/3wELCRD
The account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the U.S. government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts. wapo.st/3wELCRD
The book builds on Craig Whitlock’s award-winning story, which investigates how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public about the longest war in American history.
You can preorder here: simonandschuster.com/books/The-Afgh…
You can preorder here: simonandschuster.com/books/The-Afgh…
For nearly two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, U.S. leaders sounded a constant refrain: We are making progress.
They were not, documents show, and they knew it.
Here's The Post's 2019 investigation:
wapo.st/3i0nEMF
They were not, documents show, and they knew it.
Here's The Post's 2019 investigation:
wapo.st/3i0nEMF
The Post obtained notes, transcripts and audio recordings from more than 400 government interviews and compiled them into a comprehensive database.
You can view them here: wapo.st/3oPrsSf
You can view them here: wapo.st/3oPrsSf
A cache of government interviews and memos reveals that U.S. officials admitted they adopted contradictory strategies and unattainable goals, based on flawed assumptions about a country they didn’t understand. wapo.st/3i0nEMF 
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