CTSJ's Weekly Podcast, The Matrix & the OxyGen Student-Alumni Connection Program invite you to a conversation with Oxy Alum Steve Coll '80, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001.

25 Aug
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Add to Calendar 2021-08-25 12:00:00 2021-08-25 13:00:00 Why the War in Afghanistan Failed and the Aftermath of the US Withdrawal - with Steve Coll '80 CTSJ's Weekly Podcast, The Matrix & the OxyGen Student-Alumni Connection Program invite you to a conversation with Oxy Alum Steve Coll '80, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. Virtual - Please register to receive Zoom link Occidental College info@kwallcompany.com America/Los_Angeles public
Location: Virtual - Please register to receive Zoom link
Event Date: Aug. 25, 2021

Steve Coll is Dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism & Staff Writer for The New Yorker. 

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Join the Critical Theory & Social Justice Department and OxyGen (connecting alumni with promising young students and recent graduates) for an in-depth discussion with an award-winning and highly respected scholar and journalist about Afghanistan, the background leading up to the 20-year war, the causes of the war's failure, and what to expect (and do) in the aftermath of the US withdrawal.

Steve Coll Why the War in Afghanistan Failed