![]() That description and parts of Nixon's address can be recycled to today, a year after US forces withdrew from Afghanistan. Addressing the nation about the end of the war in Vietnam, a 20 year conflict that embroiled US forces in a vicious counterinsurgency campaign in the name of American ideals. That was President Richard Nixon in 1973. The important thing was not to talk about peace, but to get peace, and to get the right kind of peace. I know that you would not have wanted that peace jeopardized. Your steadfastness and supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. Heather Reilly, Drew Lawrence, Mark Cancian, Congressman Seth Moulton, Rebecca Kheel Zach Fryer-Biggs, Army Presenter, President Richard Nixon, Lt. Was the Fall of Afghanistan Inevitable? We Asked 8 National Security Experts.Reports: At Least 13 US Service Members Dead After Two Bombs Are Detonated Next to Kabul Airport.One Year On, Afghans at Risk Await Evacuation, Relocation.Lawrence and Rebecca Kheel talk with Managing Editor Zach Fryer-Biggs about other important military stories for August 26. Mark Cancian, Marine and senior adviser at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.This episode depicts instances of combat. They are reflective of the individual’s own experience. The opinions expressed by service members in this episode do not reflect the views of the Department of Defense or the Department of the Army. We asked them some different questions too – because the wars in Afghanistan and Vietnam are not the same, but the endings of each are too strikingly similar to ignore. We asked the same questions about their experiences on fighting a seemingly never-ending counter-insurgency. One has had decades to process what the war meant. We asked them to reflect on those two campaigns, how they view them personally and how they assess the cost to service members and its impact on the military community. Today, on Fire Watch, we have two members of the generations that fought those two wars speaking with us – one, a retired Marine Colonel who served in Vietnam and the other, an active duty Army officer who was in Kabul, Afghanistan in the final days of that conflict. Just as Vietnamese refugees clung to the skids of helicopters departing the Saigon embassy in the waning days of that conflict, Afghans desperate to escape the draconian rule of the Taliban tried to grab hold of American cargo planes, with several falling to their deaths. It wasn’t the first time that American troops witnessed the end of decades of conflict, trying to assess what it was all for.Īlmost 50 years prior President Richard Nixon promised the next generation peace in the wake of Vietnam. forces were preparing to depart Afghanistan after 20 years of war. ![]()
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