James P. DeHart — Last Flight out of Kabul: One Diplomat's Journey in Afghanistan from Reconstruction to Collapse - with Shawn Dorman — at Conn Ave

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In the summer of 2021, twenty years of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan came to a jarring end. The United States' longest war spanned four U.S. presidential administrations, claimed 2,461 American lives, and wounded more than 20,000 American soldiers. What began as an operation to destroy al Qaeda mushroomed into a nation building project. When at last the United States withdrew, the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban swept back into Kabul. Last Flight out of Kabul https://politics prose.com/book/9781640127081 tells the story of what happened next: a dramatic humanitarian airlift of nearly 124,000 American citizens, Afghan allies, and international partners from Hamid Karzai International Airport under terribly dangerous conditions. Senior diplomat Jam…

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