Lead Inspector General — Operation Freedom's Sentinel, January–March 2018

TL;DR — The quarterly oversight report to Congress on the Afghanistan mission — the routine accounting nobody reads.

⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. US federal government work (17 USC §105).

Report to the United States Congress, 1 January – 31 March 2018.

The Lead Inspector General mechanism produces a quarterly, statutorily required, public accounting of an overseas contingency operation: what was spent, what was achieved, what the IGs could not verify.

This is the Washington Post article’s thesis in its purest institutional form — a document produced on a legal schedule, published openly, containing the actual state of a war, and read by almost nobody. Pairs with Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in Afghanistan.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

146 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.