By the Editor: It should be of huge concern, to all who care about defence and security issues in the West, that, in but a few months, public discourse has now all but lost sight of the rout of the West in Afghanistan in August. Some would say we have negligently enabled, or at least acquiesced in, the fall of a democracy in favour of an illegitimate, incoherent theocracy; with apparently little regard to the blood spilt and treasure expended by the Coalition, let alone that of the Afghans themselves. The author incisively analyses the events surrounding August 2021 in Afghanistan and examines…
