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Reassessment of US Efforts: Withdrawal From Afghanistan

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Provide a 150 word minimum response to each of the 2 postings of the classmates in regards to the question below.

Please note you can agree or disagree in your response with any of the responses from the classmates as long as you back it up with explanation and facts. You must use at least 1 source from class readings for each response at minimum and 2 other sources from class or outside of class.

QUESTION: The American withdrawal from Afghanistan has forced military strategists and politicians into a reassessment of U.S. efforts there.  Please look over the provided document (found below) and, in light of the document and the readings in Lesson 7, assess whether the termination of war was successful or unsuccessful. What were the structural or major issues in the defense and interagency establishment that led to this outcome?

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Compounding factors complicated the US mission in Afghanistan from the start. Surges in troops, quickly followed by extreme drawdowns, political preferences, timeline expectations, and corruption harmed the efficiency of programs (SIGAR, 2021, 5-6). The structure of the military mission morphed from one to root out terrorism, to a much more expansive (and highly unsustainable) nation-building effort. As Flavin states, at the core of planning a withdrawal is “achieving unity of effort among the diplomatic, military, economic, and informational aspects of national power,” in addition to with multinational partners and communities (2003, 97). The Trump Administration made the decision to establish a set of conditions that would lead to the withdrawal of American troops. But instead of abiding by these conditions, the Biden Administration decided to pull out troops at a sooner date.
In a hearing held by the House Foreign Affairs Committee last month, Rep. Zach Nunn acknowledged that the US left the “Afghan government caught completely by surprise by the lack of information provided. [It was] a US government that chose to share selective intelligence” (Rep. Zach Nunn, “Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability Hearing, US Withdrawal from AfghanistanLinks to an external site

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