Taliban Sweep in Afghanistan Follows Years of U.S. Miscalculations (Published 2021)American soldiers overseeing training of their Afghan counterparts in Helmand Province in 2016.Credit...Adam Ferguson for The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Biden’s top advisers concede they were stunned by the rapid collapse of the Afghan army in the face of an aggressive, well-planned offensive by the Taliban that now threatens Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital. The past 20 years show they sho
