Warlordism grew to new heights in Afghanistan after the CIA channeled around $1 billion to malign actors for their help during the post-9/11 Taliban takedown. To make matters worse, the United States injected more than $100 billion of poorly-supervised reconstruction aid into the Afghan economy, which fueled corruption and bolstered these very same strongmen. In … Continue reading US Support for Warlords Continues to Destabilize Afghanistan