In the last two decades do you know who else asked the question, ‘Why didn’t they fight?” Mullah Omar and Saddam Husein. I have no actual knowledge that the collapse of the Afghan Army will give rise to a protracted insurgency but I have hope as the flag of the Northern

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I can’t really explain why the situation in Afghanistan has bothered me so much. I only served in Iraq, but this has felt worse than I remember the rise of ISIS. Maybe it’s the quickness of it all? Anyway, as the evacuation pace has picked up my mind has turned from despair

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The blame game begins as the world witnesses the chaotic withdraw that will most certainly be disastrous for the Afghans that are left behind. The New York Times has been tracking the updates here: Live Updates: Taliban Promise No Reprisal Killings, but Afghans Are Desperate

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For most of the weekend I sat frozen to Twitter watching for updates that the kids couldn’t understand as the Taliban overran Kabul. If you are looking for answers on how this could have happened, I suggest The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War as a good

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When you can’t look away, try the Long War Journal for a detailed recap of the continuing fall in Afghanistan. Defining Leadership is more difficult than you think (in my real job we spent two days arguing about evaluating it…and the verdict is still out). What

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The collapse continues: the Taliban seized an Afghan Army Headquarters, airports in Kunduz City and Shibirghan, and Ghanzi City has fallen as well. War on the Rocks takes a look at the Militant’s Drone Playbook and Popular Mechanics has video of Russian troops jumping

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The Taliban’s march continues as two more major cities fall. If that is too depressing for you how about a Podcast on Integrated Deterrence or a Mom’s Guide to Coercion and Deterrence? And someone is faking positions of NATO warships with so much more. Inspired

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It’s all things Afghanistan and the stunning quickness of the Taliban’s gains there. In lighter news may we suggest The Economist’s tale of a tunnel under the Berlin Wall or a Jet-Hybrid to replace the V-22 Osprey in Popular Mechanics. Inspired by the

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Climate Change takes center stage in today’s Daily Dump. In addition, The New York Times does some excellent reporting on the continued Taliban Offensive and Mozambican and Rwandan forces capture a key port from insurgents in Mozambique. Inspired by the Cognitive

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