Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR-21-46-LL)
Report · written August 2021 · released August 2021
Why this matters
SIGAR's final lessons-learned report, published as Kabul fell. It concludes that the U.S. government repeatedly lacked a coherent strategy, underestimated the time required, and spent $145 billion on reconstruction it could not sustain. sigar.mil no longer resolves, so this entry links a Wayback Machine snapshot from December 2024.
Read the original
http://web.archive.org/web/20241217125112/https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-21-46-LL.pdf
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Tags
Part of a collection · step 11 of 11
Failed Procurement Programs
Twenty years, $145 billion, and a final report whose website no longer exists.
Part of a collection · step 5 of 8
Graveyards of the Web
sigar.mil no longer resolves; the Wayback Machine kept the report.
Cite
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. "What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR-21-46-LL)." August 2021. Released August 2021. http://web.archive.org/web/20241217125112/https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-21-46-LL.pdf (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0075).
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