Folge 45: Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan – A Sea Change in U.S. Foreign Policy?

U.S. President Joe Biden declared last month that his country had
accomplished its mission of denying terrorists a safe haven in
Afghanistan and announced complete withdrawal of the roughly
3.000 remaining U.S. troops by September 11 – the twentieth
anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States that
triggered the intervention. U.S. troops began withdrawal on April
25; it could be completed as early as July 4. America’s war in
Afghanistan has seen four presidents, more than 13,000 air
strikes, cost 2,400 American lives, and left 20,000 troops
injured. This episode of the HCA podcast looks back on this
conflict and ponders the future of Afghanistan. Anja Schüler
talks with Lieutenant General (ret.) Ben Hodges, who
served as commanding general, United States Army
Europe and is currently the Pershing Chair in Strategic
Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis in
Washington D.C.