Tag: Afghanistan
New trends that have appeared in regional security since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan are highly consequential for regional politics.
On January 11, 2022, the United Nations (UN) Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths appealed to the international community to help raise $4.4 billion for Afghanistan in humanitarian aid, calling this effort, “the largest ever appeal for a single country for humanitarian assistance.”
The US military spent $14 trillion during the two decades of war; those who benefited ranged from major manufacturers to entrepreneurs.
Virtually nothing about the Afghanistan War was inadvertent. By Andrew BACEVICH The American War in Afghanistan: A History, by Carter Malkasian (Oxford University Press, 2021), 561 pages. The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War, by Craig Whitlock (Simon […]
