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Giving a Damn About Our Reputation and The Cost of the Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Review

In Breaking a DIME(FIL) Piece Into Pennies, we defined the instruments of national power. If you remember nothing else about DIMEFIL, remember this: Power is held by those who show up. Don’t show up? Don’t get a say – or even a shot at one.

BLUF

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan did not occur in a vacuum, and as we see every day, the lack of US pre…