Nine Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, October 11, 2021. @LongWarJournal. @Batchelorshow

Photo:  A young girl from the Spin Boldak District in the southern Kandahar province, Afghanistan, smiles as she waits for her mother to finish speaking at a female shura. Born after the Taliban's fall, the young girl is afforded the opportunities to go to school and chase her dreams because of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's efforts to promote gender equality, to include pushing for a more robust focus on girls' education, and having in its constitution clauses rendering women and men equal, and including women in the policy-making process — all before the tragic withdrawal.

Nine Weeks after the Tragedy: #ClassicLongWarJournal: @BillRoggio and @ThomasJoscelyn #UNBOUND the complete, forty-minute interview, October 18, 2021. @LongWarJournal.