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His plans. the afghan central government s control dropped to only about 65% of the country s districts. some of the data i ve cited comes from a powerful new book the american war in afghanistan by a civilian officer in helman province. drawing his conclusions from the book in a political essay, he begins by noting there can be little doubt that we lost the war. the united states spent 20 years, $2 trillion, commanded at its peak 130,000 coalition troops, built up an afghan security force of 300,000, at least on paper, and used the world s most sophisticated and lethal air power. still, it was unable to defeat an ill-equipped taliban force of ....

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