How air assault helicopters helped us lose the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan

Flying to and from the battle isn't winning. It's flying to and from the battle.

If you’ve been watching television footage of the fall of Kabul, you have been watching the Afghanistan war in toto.  As pickup trucks and Humvees filled with Taliban fighters triumphantly drive into the city along streets crowded with Afghan civilians waving to them, sortie after sortie is being flown by American military helicopters from the Embassy c…