The factors behind the US failure in Afghanistan impending challenges under Taliban rule

The article gives an account of the factors that led the United States armed forces to exit Afghanistan as and when they did in August 2021 after twenty years of presence, leaving the country at the mercy of the Taliban which successive US governments had tried to eradicate. The author explains why various American strategies failed to pacify the country and why the NATO-supported regime collapsed immediately after the withdrawal of foreign troops.