BY BINOY KAMPMARK July 24, 2023 READ

Photograph Source: Falk Oberdorf,Osterstr – Public Domain

While the United States, along with its allies, left Afghanistan in August 2021 in spectacularly humiliating circumstances, the departure was never entirely complete, nor bound to be permanent. Since then, Washington has led the charge in handicapping those who, with a fraction of the resources, defeated a superpower and prevailed in two decades of conflict.