All US and coalition troops are to be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September 11 after two decades. Tim Ripley looks at the role of airpower in the evacuation and the possibility of follow-on missions.
For 20 years Afghanistan has been the central front in what former US President George W Bush dubbed the “global war on terror”. One of his successors, Donald Trump, was less impressed with the conflict and called America’s fight in the central Asian country as “the forever war”. Trump tried to end the US troop presence in the dying days of his time in the White House.
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