McGill Lecture: Craig Whitlock on Secret History of War in Afghanistan

Washington Times reporter Craig Whitlock, author of The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War, delivers the annual McGill Distinguished Lecture in International Studies, titled “Devoid of a Fundamental Understanding of Afghanistan". An investigative reporter for The Washington Post, Whitlock drew upon 2,000 pages of documents and interviews acquired after a three-year legal battle The Post waged with the U.S. government, to write The Afghanistan Papers, his first book. Described by publisher Simon & Schuster as revealing “how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war,” the book debuted at number one on The New York Times combined print and e-book nonfiction list for the first week of September 2021. According to National Public Radio’s pentagon correspondent, The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” during the two decade-long war, and the New York Times Book Review called the book “fast-paced and vivid and chock-full of telling quotes.” For more details - https://www.trincoll.edu/news/washing...