"The United States has now been at war in Afghanistan for over sixteen years, at a cost of over $1 trillion; Atlantic Senior Editor Krishnadev Calamur noted last month that the Taliban “now controls . . . more territory than at any point since the U.S.-led invasion”; and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported this past November that both the level of opium production and the area under opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached record highs in 2017."
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-will-never-win-the-war-afghanistan-24641?page=show
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-will-never-win-the-war-afghanistan-24641?page=show