Afghanistan
The Afghanistan Papers and the Perils of Historical Analogy
What explains the general lack of interest in the Afghanistan Papers? Why didn’t this trove of declassified documents catch fire like the Pentagon Papers during Vietnam?
Dr. David V. Gioe is Assistant Professor of History at West Point and History Fellow for the Army Cyber Institute. He is a Navy Veteran and a former Central Intelligence Agency operations officer. This analysis is his own and does not necessarily reflect that of the US Military Academy, the, Department of Defense or the United States government.
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What explains the general lack of interest in the Afghanistan Papers? Why didn’t this trove of declassified documents catch fire like the Pentagon Papers during Vietnam?
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