Our Real Intelligence Failure in Afghanistan

“Tell me how this ends” was the famous query posited by then-Major General David Petraeus in early 2003 as his 101st Airborne Division prepared to invade Saddam’s Iraq. What Petraeus asked is the preeminent question which should be posed by any strategist who’s considering starting a war – even though it’s usually unanswerable, up front, in any detail. …