Joe Biden calls time on America’s longest-ever war

https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/04/13/joe-biden-calls-time-on-americas-longest-ever-war

America leaves behind a weak state and struggling army

Apr 13th 2021

The first American forces to enter Afghanistan in 2001 arrived on September 26th, when a cia team dropped into the Panjshir Valley in the north. At the peak of the war a decade later, America had more than 100,000 troops battling the Taliban.

Another decade on, all of them will be gone and the longest war in American history will be over—for the Americans, at least. On April 14th President Joe Biden announced that every American soldier would leave by September 11th, the 20th anniversary of the attacks that prompted America to invade in the first place.