Lessons to be Learned from the Fall of Afghanistan

Herb Bowie
4 min readAug 17, 2021
Balanced pyramid of pebbles and the identical stones collapsed next to it.
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I think there are a few very broad lessons we Americans can learn from the rapid fall of the Afghan government over the last few days.

1. Any enterprise is in trouble when it is not informed by the boots on the ground.

The view from those doing the work on the ground is necessarily different from…

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