Lessons From Afghanistan on Military Solutions

It is time to rethink the use of military might to solve complex problems. Let us evaluate how profoundly bad military solutions to complex problems have been.

Erik Engheim
4 min readAug 19, 2021

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Pacifists are often presented as naive, as not understanding the realities of the world. However, Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam have all hammered home the same point that warmongers fail to grasp: You cannot win wars on the cheap.

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Erik Engheim

Geek dad, living in Oslo, Norway with passion for UX, Julia programming, science, teaching, reading and writing.