Afghanistan was not funded nor resourced properly, according to Cordesman, and for Obama:
“I[n] [sic] the case of Afghanistan, he must either make unpopular and costly decisions to compensate for seven crippling years of underresourcing the war, or risk losing it.”
See Also: Clive Crook At The Financial Times: Clive Crook ‘Afghanistan Is Now Obama’s War’ From Commonweal: Andrew Bacevich “The War We Can’t Win: Afghanistan And The Limits Of American Power”…