In the Aftermath of War

What the post-1975 history of the Vietnam War should teach us about the days, months, and years after the United States leaves Afghanistan

Today our hearts are with the families of all those killed by a suicide bombing at Kabul airport yesterday.

What follows is is an interview, done on Monday, August 23, that asks you to think deeply about the evacuation from Vietnam—and Afghanistan—not as an end to the war, but as a punctuation point in a much longer resolution of the conflict. I hope you…