The Bleeding Nation: Superpowers, Ethnic Politics, and Afghanistan's Collapse

On August 15, 2021, Colonel Naweed Kawusi stood in Kabul as the Islamic Republic collapsed in a matter of hours after an unseen buildup of years. The Bleeding Nation is his experience with that collapse, and with the decades of foreign interference, ethnic division, and institutional betrayal that made it possible.

Drawing on his firsthand experience as a former director of police support for the Afghan National Police and decades inside Afghanistan's security and governance institutions, Ka...