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100			_aLamb, Christina _931132
245			_aChronicle of a defeat foretold: Why America failed in Afghanistan
260			_aForeign Affairs
300			_a100(4), Jul-Aug, 2021: p.147-179
520			_aThe war in Afghanistan could not be won militarily, Carleton-Smith told me. He was the first senior coalition military officer to say so publicly, and the story made the front page of the British Sunday Times. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates promptly denounced Carleton-Smith to the news media as “defeatist.” Thirteen years on, U.S. President Joe Biden appears to have reached the same conclusion as the British brigadier. In April, Biden announced that the United States would pull all its remaining troops out of Afghanistan by the 20th anniversary of 9/11, ending what he referred to as “the forever war.” But by now, such a withdrawal was all but a foregone conclusion: the Taliban had proved a stubborn enemy that was not going anywhere and that indeed controlled close to half the country’s territory. - Reproduced
773			_aForeign Affairs
906			_aUNITED STATES - FOREIGN RELATIONS - AFGANISTAN
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