How the White House Misjudged Afghanistan

The Independent: “Current and former national security officials and experts… describe a dysfunctional situation at the National Security Council, in which top aides did not fully grasp the seriousness of the intelligence being delivered to them by those on the ground because they lacked the operational experience to recognize the situation for what it was.”

“Others say the failure of the U.S. project in Afghanistan stems from a fundamental misunderstanding of the motivations of America’s erstwhile Afghan allies… People in Biden’s orbit who were contacted for this story pushed back on the characterization of ‘panic’ within the NSC.”