The Futile War in Afghanistan: New at Reason

Under Donald Trump, the U.S. has been dropping a huge number of bombs in Afghanistan—three times more in 2017 than in 2016, under Barack Obama. But the insurgents now control more of the country’s territory than ever before. The simple fact is, writes Steve Chapman, that we are not winning the war—and if you are not winning a war against an enemy fighting on his soil among his people, you are losing.

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