IPRI Update Volume 9, No. 8
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2 September 2021
WHY DID AMERICA FAIL IN AFGHANISTAN?
President Joe Biden said in April 2021 that by September of this year the U.S. military will depart from Afghanistan. Security on bases and outposts of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces were stepped up as the Taliban continued to seize and contest the country’s territory despite continuing peace negotiations with the Afghan Government. …
Taliban should erect a coherent state
Afghanistan sits at the crossroads of all energy, trade and transit corridors in an era of geo-economics Afghans are witnessing a déjà vu. History is repeating itself. The country is once again exploding, and this time despite a relatively peaceful change of guard. The Taliban, nonetheless, are in a fix, as centrifugal forces are posing them …
