Analysis: How Afghan War Showed Limits of US Military Power
It took only two months for U.S. invaders to topple the Taliban in Afghanistan 2001 in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
By Associated Press
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July 17, 2021, at 1:06 p.m.
U.S. News & World Report
The Associated Press
By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — It took only two months for U.S. invaders to topple the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, a seemingly tidy success against a government that had given refuge to 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Twenty years later, the United States is withdrawing — visions of victory long vanished and an ascendant Taliban arguably within reach of restoring their rule.
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Afghanistan proved to be a lesson in the limits of America's military power.
It demonstrated the seeming paradox that it is possible to win the battles and still lose the war. Or at least that a technologically superior force can kill more efficiently than its enemy yet fail to achieve a final result resembling victory.
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