Austin Gives Senate Hard Truths of Lessons From Afghanistan

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2791808/austin-gives-senate-hard-truths-of-lessons-from-afghanistan/

“We helped build a state, but we could not forge a nation,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III told the Senate Armed Services Committee, encapsulating America’s 20-year involvement in Afghanistan.

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