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Rebrand It However You Want, but Afghanistan Is Still at War
December 29, 2014Los Angeles Times

Imagine President Franklin Roosevelt announcing at the end of 1944, after the liberation of France but before the final defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, that World War II was over and that U.S. forces were ending combat operations. Instead we would support our allies, from Britain to China, in their fight against the Axis powers.

AfghanistanUnited StatesWars and Warfare; Terrorist Organizations and Networks

Foreign Affairs ArticleMore Small Wars
Author: November/December 2014

Although the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are far from the costliest the United States has ever fought in terms of either blood or treasure, they have exacted a much greater toll than the relatively bloodless wars Americans had gotten used to fighting in the 1990s.

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