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Was it all worth it?

The Bundeswehr in Afghanistan

Jörg Luyken
Jul 2, 2021
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A Bundeswehr vehicle in Kunduz province. Credit: Wikipedia Commons

Dear Reader,

On Tuesday evening the last German soldiers left Afghanistan, bringing to an end almost twenty years of military presence on the Hindukush. Some 150,000 Bundeswehr soldiers served in Afghanistan during that time. Fifty nine never made it home.

But the “historic” end to the mili…

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