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Does America need a draft?
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Does America need a draft?

The US military draft lasted until the 1970s, when it was scrapped as part of the national reckoning over America’s political and military failures in Vietnam. Could it ever come back? Should it?

Calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan was a crisis of Biden’s own making
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Calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan was a crisis of Biden’s own making

Joe Biden has been looking for a way out of Afghanistan for decades, and regardless of how ugly things get, he's not turning back. After Trump reached a deal with the Taliban in 2020 to end the war, Biden decided to stick with the arrangement, overruling his own generals. Ian Bremmer explains that while he agrees with Biden's decision to get out, he did not foresee the incompetence of the execution.

Afghanistan, 2021: Afghan & US military perspectives as the last soldier leaves
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

Afghanistan, 2021: Afghan & US military perspectives as the last soldier leaves

Two decades of war in Afghanistan came to a tragic close on August 31 as President Joe Biden announced from the White House that the last US troops had left the country. "I was not going to extend this forever war," Biden said, "and I was not extending a forever exit." On GZERO World, we hear from three people whose lives have been forever changed by the conflict.