Twenty years of involvement in a lost war and a botched military evacuation from Afghanistan last summer have prompted a political and institutional reckoning in the Netherlands — the likes of which may never happen in Canada.
It’s a soul-searching exercise that the commander of Dutch forces said he fully supports because he believes his country has something to learn from the experience.
“Will this have an impact on our future missions? I hope so, because we have to have our lessons identified and our lessons learned on Afghanistan towards the future,” Gen. Onno Eichelsheim, a veteran of his country’s military
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