CIA’s Former Counterterrorism Chief for the Region: Afghanistan, Not An Intelligence Failure — Something Much Worse

I fear for my countrymen and my nation.

The failure was not due to any lack of warning, but rather the hubris and political risk calculus of decision makers whose choices are too often made in their personal and political interest or with pre-committed policy choices

US WAR CHEST: As Taliban Parades Massive Cache Of Captured American Weapons, US Has No Idea The Scope Of The Damage

A Taliban member poses atop a US US-60 Black Hawk helicopter in Afghanistan, August 2021. (Uncredited)

Materiel the Islamic group gained huge trove, including thousands of assault rifles, thousands of armored vehicles, dozens of aircraft, tanks, artillery, sniper rifles, night-vision goggles , U.S.-made Humvees, helicopters,nd drones and much more.