Two years ago, the world watched in disbelief as the United States and allied countries conducted a chaotic withdrawal from
Afghanistan
.
The operation ended with the deaths of 13 American servicemembers and hundreds, if not thousands, of Afghan civilians and allies. Thousands remain trapped in the country, abandoned to live under
Taliban
rule. As Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasson highlight in their new book,
Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End
, none of it was inevitable.
The disaster that unfolded was the result of policy decisions made by the
Biden administration
. Dunleavy and Hasson ably document these failures in crisp prose and with righteous anger. What emerges is a portrait of an impending tragedy that was both predictable and, indeed, predicted by many analysts and intelligence estimates.
Both authors are…
