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Who Lost in Afghanistan

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  Who Lost in Afghanistan A Humvee, being used as a local transport vehicle after capturing it from US Army In 1975 a US Army colonel told a Vietnamese colonel, “ You know, you never beat us on the battlefield.” The counterpart responded, “That may be so, it is also irrelevant.”   On 13 July 2021, Gen. Austin Scott Miller, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan stepped down, marking a symbolic defeat after 20 years of American military invasion in Afghanistan.   The invasion of Afghanistan took place on the 7th of October 2001 when the US and UK started ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ with some 43 NATO allies and partners under the joint command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The US Government claimed that the invasion was in retaliation to the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York and Pennsylvania. They blamed the Taliban, ruling war-torn Afghanistan, for the attack. However, neither evidence of the involvement of the Taliban Govt was produced in any court of justice no