"Unlike the Soviets defeated before them, the Americans’ legacy was not a landscape littered with the destroyed hulks of armored vehicles. Instead, they left all the arms and equipment needed to supply the Taliban, the victors, for years to come, the product of two decades and $83 billion training and equipping an Afghan military and police forces that collapsed in the face of poor leadership and dwindling U.S. support."
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Thomas Gibbons-Neff, “Afghanistan, an Unceremonious End, and a Shrouded Beginning”, New York Times, Aug. 30, 2021
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