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The History of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars in Ten to Fifteen Years
By Daniel Nardini
In ten to fifteen years from now, I suspect that the Afghanistan and Iraq wars will become as popular in books, TV and movies. This is not hard to follow. The Afghanistan War is the longest war in U.S. history. More than that, it has affected a whole generation, the Millennials to be exact. In so many ways, the Afghanistan War has touched so many individuals, families and groups of people as few things have. Many families have lost loved ones to the war. Many kids have grown up never knowing one or tragically not even knowing both parents who were killed in the war. Eventually there will be many memorials for all those who died in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars as there should be. And like the Vietnam War before it, so many people will be drawing parallels between them and wondering whether these wars were winnable or unwinnable, whether we should have been in these wars as long as we were (or even there in the first place), whether it was worth it or not, and why the politicians and generals made the decisions that they did. None of this is abstract; all that I describe here has affected millions of lives for a generation. The Afghanistan and Iraq wars have been the most important conflicts for Americans in the 21st Century. For all of the scenarios many might play out of possible conflicts in the future, the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War were real enough for all those who fought in these two conflicts and have suffered for it. All who have been scarred by these two wars will remain as reminders of an era that has changed all of America.