Stevenson’s army, August 21

– WSJ has another good ticktock, this one of what was happening in Kabul.

– WSJ also has a collection of “what went wrong” articles. I call your attention to the pieces by Eliot Cohen and Steve Walt.

– FT describes how Taliban finances its operations.

– WaPo has a piece on the Trump deal with the Taliban;  NYT noted we  don’t know what was in the secret annexes.

– Politico says Biden is keeping a hard line on Cuba.

– GAO is investigating the selection of Alabama over Colorado for the Space Command. Trump now takes sole credit.

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