For those of you wondering "how did this happen so quickly?"
After the Taliban lost control of the country in 2001...they still maintained shadow governments in each province and town. There were shadow governors, cops and even shadow prisons...all run by the Taliban.
Our efforts never really focused on eliminating these shadow governments that were instrumental in suppressing morale and the initiative for locals to help us.
Under Biden when we started leaving our bases in the middle of the night...and there was a void in leadership...these shadow Taliban governing officials came out of the shadows and literally greased the skids for what we've all seen unfold in the last 10 days in the country.