Oh, I thought that from the day it was announced we would be going into Afg in force. 15 years ago. In one sense, we acquired some experience “fighting that kind of enemy” I guess you could say but it wasn’t the Afghan people and likely not the Afghan government who allowed Al Queda to encamp there. IMO these are by and large primitive people who may not like us, which is their right. But we learned nothing new for the exercise. Everything we might have learned we could have learned from the Soviet experience in 1979-198x.
Read my post in #24. We could have learned all we really needed from the British experience in the last 1890s.