Interesting story, but the short answer is no, the U.S. did not "lose" Afghanistan because of an app. It lost because it (by that I mean the U.S. public) never

Interesting story, but the short answer is no, the U.S. did not "lose" Afghanistan because of an app. It lost because it (by that I mean the U.S. public) never believed in the mission there (which never had much of a strategic rationale in the first place). And because the Taliban, despite enormous setbacks, never lost faith in theirs. Yes the narrative is "complex" and there's also Pakistan, etc. But in a nutshell, that's what it boils down to.