BBCNEWS BBC News August 17, 2021 19:26:00
It's very striking that western intelligence agencies don't seem to have understood how well—prepared the taliban were, how well equipped, how ready to make this final push and surprise everyone and of course morale cracked into afghan authorities once president biden announced that very rapid withdrawal but even so i think it shows the difficulty of understanding what is really going on under the surface and what the trends are in a country like afghanistan. it sounds like the intelligence community missed some very important warning factors about how the taliban are preparing. the taliban ...
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