US Withdrawal from Afghanistan with Rory Stewart

Warfare

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🗓️ 13 August 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The current withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan raises a lot of questions about the conflict. Why are they withdrawing now? Was there a better time for this? How might the assistance of Western countries have been more successful? In this episode, Rory Stewart OBE, former Secretary of State for International Development in the UK and now a senior fellow at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, shares his thoughts on the war in Afghanistan. Rory completed a solo walk across Afghanistan in 2002, and his experiences of the people and the country have informed his political, academic and non-profit work, including his 2006 New York Times Bestseller, ‘The Places in Between’.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone this is the history hit warfare podcast and I'm your host James
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0:16.8	It really makes a difference to us getting out there to everyone who loves history.
0:20.6	In this episode, I'm joined by former Secretary of State for International Development,
0:25.1	Rory Stewart OBE, to discuss the history of the war in Afghanistan and the current turmoil
0:30.6	unfolding there. In 2002, Rory conducted a solo walk across north
0:35.2	central Afghanistan, an experience that he says has never left him and one which he took
0:39.6	into government into policy to try and convince policymakers of the cultural
0:43.9	diversity in the country. But as the Taliban seizes cities across Afghanistan
0:48.6	and the US readies for its final withdrawal after two decades, we discuss how this rapid rise of the Taliban is going to impact the government, the military and the people of Afghanistan,
0:58.0	as well as the maintenance of any progress that has been made in the country over those last 20 years.
1:04.1	So here is Rory Stewart on the history hit Warfare podcast. How you doing today?
1:25.0	I'm doing very well, how are you? I'm good, thanks. Where are you talking to us from in the world?
1:30.0	So I'm talking to you from Creve in Scotland just on the edge of the highlands.
1:33.3	Very nice. Is this work or have you finally been able to get a bit of a vacation?
1:38.0	This is Family Holiday. Just got back from Jordan two days ago where we've been working on a project
1:42.4	with Syrian refugees and normally I'm
1:44.8	based at the moment in Connecticut where I believe you're speaking from yourself.
1:49.1	I am yes we've swapped places I'm usually in Europe based in Denmark and you're usually over here at
1:54.6	Yale but I'll be heading back on Saturday actually all COVID tests willing of
2:00.1	course now it's interesting of course you're still working on issues of conflict and refugees and
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