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Veterans’ voices shape report on the Afghanistan War’s lessons, impact
« on: August 20, 2025, 09:16:03 am »
Veterans’ voices shape report on the Afghanistan War’s lessons, impact
 

By Julie Carr Smyth, The Associated Press and Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos, The Associated Press
 Aug 19, 2025, 03:30 PM
 
COLUMBUS, Ohio — U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, demoralizing and at times humiliating.

The bipartisan Afghanistan War Commission aims to reflect such veterans’ experiences in a report due to Congress next year, which will analyze key strategic, diplomatic, military and operational decisions made between June 2001 and the chaotic withdrawal in August 2021.


The group released its second interim report on Tuesday, drawing no conclusions yet but identifying themes emerging from thousands of pages of government documents; some 160 interviews with cabinet-level officials, military commanders, diplomats, Afghan and Pakistani leaders and others; and forums with veterans like one recently held at a national Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Columbus, Ohio.

“What can we learn from the Afghanistan War?” asked an Aug. 12 discussion session with four of the commission’s 16 members. What they got was two straight hours of dozens of veterans’ personal stories — not one glowingly positive, and most saturated in frustration and disappointment.

https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/08/19/veterans-voices-shape-report-on-the-afghanistan-wars-lessons-impact/
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Re: Veterans’ voices shape report on the Afghanistan War’s lessons, impact
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2025, 09:19:54 am »
Unfortunately, the only people they will pay attention to are the ones who wear their rank on their shoulders, not on the sleeves.
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