I like bikes. And beer. Former infantryman with a PhD in politics ... yeah, I didn't think through my transition plan very well.
May 23, 2022 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Thread: Were it not for @SIGARHQ there would be almost no discussion of Afghanistan (U.S. military leadership long ago moved on), so we should be grateful for the effort to account for our failures. There is a LOT of good in this Interim Report, but …
sigar.mil/pdf/evaluation…
... the report also suffers from too much U.S.-centric framing, starting with the lede, “The single most important near-term factor in the ANDSF’s collapse was the U.S. decision to withdraw the U.S. military and contractors from Afghanistan.” 2/9
