I wear a few different hats as a CFO.

You know, sometimes it's referred to as Chief Fixing Officer.

Wherever there's a fire in the business,

you know, I'm often there first.

Whatever hats CFOs like him run need to wear,

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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Dashford.

August of 2021, a catastrophe for Afghanistan and the people of Afghanistan,

and a lesson not learned for the United States military.

What is to be done?

Very little today other than to review and there's a new report

why the Afghan security forces collapsed.

This from the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction called SIGAR

to help me understand this report, which is end to end failure.

Is Bill Rachev, the foundation for the defensive democracies.

He and his colleagues keep the long word journal.

All that spring and summer of 2021,

Bill and his colleagues each week,

chronicled the failures that were obvious from the reports from the region.

And yet, Bill, a very good evening to you,

the final collapse those fraught days of August.

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