Agency for International Development have spent or appropriated between $934 billion and $978 billion, according to an inflation-adjusted estimate calculated by Neta Crawford, a political science professor and co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University. Since 2001, the Defense Department, State Department and U.S. government has not carried out a comprehensive accounting of how much it has spent on the war in Afghanistan, but the costs are staggering. government’s botched attempts to curtail runaway corruption, build a competent Afghan army and police force, and put a dent in Afghanistan’s thriving opium trade. officials acknowledged that their warfighting strategies were fatally flawed and that Washington wasted enormous sums of money trying to remake Afghanistan into a modern nation. With most speaking on the assumption that their remarks would not become public, U.S. Responses to The Post from people named in The Afghanistan Papers Part 2: Stranded without a strategy Conflicting objectives dogged the war from the start. See the documents More than 2,000 pages of interviews and memos reveal a secret history of the war. “Who will say this was in vain?” Douglas Lute | Lessons Learned interview | Tap to view full document military personnel on bureaucratic breakdowns among Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department. 2,400 lives lost,” Douglas Lute | Lessons Learned interview | Tap to view full document Lute added, blaming the deaths of U.S. “If the American people knew the magnitude of this dysfunction. He added: “What are we trying to do here? We didn’t have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking.” Douglas Lute | Lessons Learned interview | Tap to view full document

“We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan - we didn’t know what we were doing,” Douglas Lute | Lessons Learned interview | Tap to view full document Douglas Lute, a three-star Army general who served as the White House’s Afghan war czar during the Bush and Obama administrations, told government interviewers in 2015.

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