Afghanistan Was a Financial Derivative, Not a Country
Afghanistan's army didn't lose a war, it ran out of cash. This is the financial autopsy of the Afghan Republic's collapse: ghost soldiers, a $9.5 billion freeze, and the Hawala networks that moved billions out before Kabul fell.The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces were reported at roughly 350,000 troops. SIGAR audits found a large share of that roster was fictitious, "ghost soldiers" invented to siphon salary payments. When the Doha Agreement pulled foreign contractors out of the country, an army built entirely around outside logistics lost its ability to function, well before the…
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