So when the Afghan forces need bombs dropped on Taliban positions, that's generally us doing the bombing.
But what that means as a practical matter is that we're their air force we have the planes. So our muddled war policy is that we're directly at war with the Islamic State, but we're not directly at war with the Taliban, except to the extent that we're supporting Afghan forces. The second war is the one that we transitioned to in 2014, which is to advise and assist the Afghan security forces - the Afghan army and police - in their combat against the Taliban, an indigenous Afghan movement that we're all too familiar with after all these years, which controls significant swaths of the Afghan countryside. There President Obama initiated, and President Trump continued, a return to direct combat in Afghanistan, after previously, at the end of 2014, saying we were done with the war. One is a direct combat war against remnants or elements of the Islamic State that have popped up in eastern Afghanistan. There are actually two wars that we're fighting in Afghanistan, I'm not sure most Americans appreciate that. We have something like 10,000 troops there, maybe growing a little higher over the next year or so. On the current state of the war in Afghanistan Your purchase helps support NPR programming. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan Author Steve Coll Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Directorate S Subtitle The C.I.A.
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