It is difficult to overstate the chaos of August 2021 for many of those in Afghanistan, particularly those who had worked closely with the international community there. In a matter of days, U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and an insurgency threw out a government the international community had spent 20 years and billions of dollars supporting. Noah Coburn discusses the ways in which the U.S. presence unevenly reshaped Afghan society.

Image courtesy of interviewee. November 21, 2023