How to Lose a WarAn incisive, authoritative account of the West's failures in Afghanistan, from 9 11 to the fall of Kabul In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as "unconquerable." On 15 August 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention, US and NATO forces retreated, enabling the Taliban to return to power. Tens of thousands were killed in the long, unwinnable war, and millions more were displacedleaving the future of Afghanistan hanging in