Commentary America and the world is watching in rapt dismay as Afghanistan falls into the hands of the Taliban. Just weeks ago, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said this would not happen. “The Afghan Security Forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country,” he said. Biden too insisted that Afghan forces would “continue to fight valiantly.” Never have such confident assessments proven more wrong. The Afghan army, trained by the United States over 20 years at almost incalculable cost, proved to be no match whatsoever for the Taliban. To put it bluntly, when asked to perform by themselves on the battlefield, the whole army just got up and ran away. What does this say about U.S. military training? Many commentators are making snide remarks about how “woke” the American military has become. Perhaps, one sarcastically noted, with a few more men in …
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