I think you’re right about that and the semantics of it and that’s exactly the problem. The US approached Afghanistan as a battlefield, and a purely military pr

I think you’re right about that and the semantics of it and that’s exactly the problem. The US approached Afghanistan as a battlefield, and a purely military problem. It was irregular warfare and a political problem that ground the US down. https://irregularwarfare.org/articles/learning-from-failure-afghanistan-as-a-microcosm-for-strategic-competition/ https://irregularwarfare.org/articles/learning-from-failure-...