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Since 2001, the Defense Department, State Department and U.S. government has not carried out a comprehensive accounting of how much it has spent on the war in Afghanistan, but the costs are staggering. governmentвЂ™s botched attempts to curtail runaway corruption, build a competent Afghan army and police force, and put a dent in AfghanistanвЂ™s thriving opium trade. officials acknowledged that their warfighting strategies were fatally flawed and that Washington wasted enormous sums of money trying to remake Afghanistan into a modern nation.

With most speaking on the assumption that their remarks would not become public, U.S. Responses to The Post from people named in The Afghanistan Papers Part 2: Stranded without a strategy Conflicting objectives dogged the war from the start. See the documents More than 2,000 pages of interviews and memos reveal a secret history of the war.

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вЂњWho will say this was in vain?вЂќ Douglas Lute | Lessons Learned interview | Tap to view full document military personnel on bureaucratic breakdowns among Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department. 2,400 lives lost,вЂќ Douglas Lute | Lessons Learned interview | Tap to view full document Lute added, blaming the deaths of U.S. вЂњIf the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction. He added: вЂњWhat are we trying to do here? We didnвЂ™t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.вЂќ Douglas Lute | Lessons Learned interview | Tap to view full document вЂњWe were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan - we didnвЂ™t know what we were doing,вЂќ Douglas Lute | Lessons Learned interview | Tap to view full document Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White HouseвЂ™s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015.

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