President of Afghanistan leaves the country because of Taliban advance 1:43
(CNN)
- After taking over much of the country in recent weeks, Taliban militants now "peacefully" entered the Afghan capital, Kabul, as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani left the country.
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Carter Malkasian, a former senior adviser to the chief of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, says there are a couple of reasons for the armed group's rapid advance.
"The Afghan forces, for a long period, have had problems with morale and also with their willingness to fight the Taliban," Malkasian, who is also the author of
The American War in Afghanistan: A History
, told CNN on Sunday
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"First of all, the Taliban can present themselves as resisting and fighting the occupation, which is something that is very close to what it means to be Afghan. Whereas that is something much more difficult for the government to claim. , or for military forces fighting for the government. "
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He also said that the repeated successes of the Taliban in seizing provincial cities weighed on the confidence of the Afghan security forces.
"There is no question that morale suffers when forces face defeat after defeat," he continued.
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"The more defeats they suffer, the worse morale. (Afghanistan's forces) have suffered this kind of chain reaction for, really, the last three months. And on the other side, the Taliban are getting stronger with one success after another. , and these kinds of cumulative effects make it even more difficult for Afghan forces to hold ground. "
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