After 18 years post-9/11, the United States is still in Afghanistan having achieved at best a stalemate.
This CSIS report concludes that the mission in Afghanistan expanded from a limited focus on counterterrorism to a broad nation-building effort without discussions about the implications for the duration and intensity of the military campaign.
Centre For Strategic & International Studies,u.s. Tell me how this ends. military advice, strategic goals, and the forever war in afghanistan, paperback/mark f. cancian
