| American commanders hid fatal flaws in the Afghan army and police for more than a decade, according to documents obtained for the forthcoming Washington Post book "The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War." Their fears about the war, rarely expressed in public, were ultimately borne out by the sudden collapse this month of the Afghan security forces, whose wholesale and unconditional surrender to the Taliban will go down as perhaps the worst debacle in the history of proxy warfare. | 
