Join Lieutenant General Sami Sadat as he shares his firsthand experience leading Afghan forces during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Kabul. A Q&A with Sadat will follow, along with a reception.

When America retreated from Kabul amid chaos in 2021, Lieutenant General Sami Sadat, one of the last commanders of the Army of the Afghan Republic, was still fighting to the end. Although Sadat spent his early career fighting alongside the CIA to track down al-Qaeda in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, it was in conventional combat—leading from the front—that he made his name. In his new firsthand account of these events, “The Last Commander: The Once and Future Battle for Afghanistan,“ Sadat contends that Afghanistan could have won the war if support had continued. America’s longest war may have ended, but the story does not end there. Now Sadat’s birth country is plunged into barbarism, where women are beaten for showing their faces and his former comrades are hunted down and killed. But Sadat is planning to fight back. It will not be easy, but this riveting personal account of war and conflict shows that if anyone can do it, he can.

LTG Sadat will be in attendance for the event and will participate in a Q&A, with a reception to follow.

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