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一 |     The August 15, 2021 fall of Kabul shocked the world, signaling the collapse of the West’s 20-year-long, multi-trillion-dollar nation-building experiment in Afghanistan in a single day.,Less than two weeks before the cataclysm, US and Afghan officials issued statement after statement expressing confidence in the Afghan military’s ability to fight on without American support on the ground.,“[The Afghan Army has] got greater numbers, they’ve got an air force, and, oh by the way, their air force is also flying…This is not an incompetent air force – they know how to fight from the air and they are. They have modern weaponry. They have military organizational ability as well as 20 years of training in the field by – not just the United States but our NATO and Allied partners. So they have a lot of advantages. It’s really just now about using those advantages,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters in Washington on August 11, less than 100 hours before Kabul’s collapse.,In the chaotic few days that followed, Afghan Air Force personnel wound up flying nearly 50 helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft out of the country to neighboring Uzbekistan.,What happened? How did the US and NATO’s orderly withdrawal – which began in May 2021 amid fears that the Taliban would attack Western forces if they didn’t stick to the terms of the 2020 Trump-Taliban Doha peace deal, turn into such a humiliating and disorganized rout?,Paper Tiger vs Shoeless Army,On paper, the Afghan government and army seemed prepared for a years-long slog, similar to the one put up by the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, which managed to hold out against the Mujahedeen independently between 1989 and early 1992, even as the jihadists received billions in arms and cash from the CIA, Saudi and Egyptian intelligence, Pakistan and China. By comparison, the NATO-backed Afghan Army had serious problems with foreign support for the Taliban, with the insurgent group’s only major foreign backer consisting of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence.,The Afghan military boasted a total size of some 300,000 personnel – the 16th largest army in the world, along with an impressive array of $85 billion in US-gifted weaponry, including tens of millions of guns, grenades and rocket launchers, 8,500 Humvees, hundreds of armored personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, tanks, mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles, and thousands of heavy and light trucks.,The Air Force’s inventory included more than two hundred Russian and US-made attack and utility helicopters, dozens of transport planes, and close to 30 Cessna 208 and A-29 Super Tucano ground attack and COIN jets.,US 'Lost Track' of Afghan War Aims, Says Retired Marine General12 August, 17:00 GMT,Facing off against them were the Taliban: a rag-tag group of militants whose core fighting force was estimated to consist of about 60,000 fighters, some of them shoeless, no air force, and limited mobility due to their adversary’s total air superiority and control of fuel.,Behind the scenes, a sprinkling of media reports and testimonies from Afghan soldiers and officials told a sobering story previewing the coming disaster, discussing the widespread disillusionment, demoralization and corruption centered around military and police structures based more on patronage, personal power and enrichment than competence and aptitude.,“There is no motivation for the army to fight for the corrupt government and corrupt politicians here,” Ahmad Wali Massoud, Afghanistan’s former envoy to the UK, told the Wall Street Journal on August 10, a few days before Kabul’s collapse.,“They are not fighting for [then-Afghan President Ashraf] Ghani. They haven’t even been fed properly. Why should they fight? For what? They are better off with the Taliban, which is why they are switching sides like that,” Massoud explained.,US Military Vehicles Falling Into Taliban Hands at Alarming Rate, Report Finds3 July 2021, 15:14 GMT,Ghani himself would end up fleeing the country as Kabul fell, with his entourage reportedly carrying so much money in suitcases from the state coffers that he had to leave some of it behind. Ghani has categorically dismissed these reports and denied allegations besmirching his good name.,John Sopko, the US inspector general for Afghanistan, warned Congress in March 2021 about the state of the Afghan’s military’s demoralization, admitting that “endemic corruption” was a threat, and that it was “fueling” the insurgency and giving the Taliban the means to gain public support.,Another problem, according to a May 2021 report by the Associated Press, was lack of professionalism. Attiqullah Amarkhiel, a former Afghan Army major general, told the news agency that while the Moscow-allied Afghan Army of 1989 consisted of about 150,000 high school educated troops. By contrast, he said, the NATO-trained crack troops of the Western-backed Afghan government had just six-to-eight weeks of basic training, with most recruits uneducated and/or allied to warlords.,“Then we had quality. Today we have quantity,” Amarkhiel said.,Blitzkrieg,This demoralization and corruption, combined with what The Intelligencer characterized as an institutionally built-in deep overdependence on US coalition support, culminated in the events of early-mid-August 2021.,By mid-July of that year, the Taliban was able to take advantage of coalition forces’ withdrawal by establishing control over large swathes of the Afghan countryside. However, no major cities and none of the country’s 34 provincial capitals were under the group’s control at the time. Throughout its two-decade insurgency campaign, the Taliban only launched one major strategic offensive against a government-controlled city – striking Kandahar in May 2011 before retreating back into the countryside.,Fast forward a decade, and the militant group would finally cast off their inhibitions about offensives cities.,On August 6, the militants captured Zaranj, capital of the southern province of Nimruz near the border with Iran, in a lightning attack, with government forces putting up light resistance and local bureaucrats fleeing the city.,A day later, the militants captured Sheberghan, capital of Jawzjan province, after heavy fighting. On August 8, Sar-e-Pul, Kunduz and Taluqan, three provincial capitals in the north of the country, fell, followed by Aybak in the northern Samangan province on August 9.,August 10 witnessed the collapse of Farah in the west and Pul-e-Khumri in Afghanistan’s center. A day later, Faizabad, capital of the northeastern province of Badakhshan also fell.,Animation showing Taliban's inexorable march towards Kabul. “The problem with the army was not lack of training or weapons. The most important thing in war is politics”Read @AmyKazmin @KatrinaManson and @b_parkyn's story on why the Afghan army foldedhttps://t.co/bjjJdPp15J pic.twitter.com/Ll6JrHQWLH— Steven Bernard (@sdbernard) August 15, 2021,August 12-13 would become the darkest days for the Afghan army and government up to that point, with the cities of Ghazni, Herat, Kandahar, Lashkar Gah, Qala-e-Naw, Feruz Koh, Pul-e-Alam, Terenkot and Qalat falling to the Taliban in the space of 48 hours. On August 14, the strategic northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif fell.,Finally, on August 15, 2021, Kabul and the eastern city of Jalalabad collapsed – falling, awkwardly, while tens of thousands of coalition troops, contractors, diplomats, Afghan puppet administration assistance and Western intelligence agents were still in the country.,© AP Photo / Rahmat GulA U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday, further tightening their grip on the country as panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy.A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday, further tightening their grip on the country as panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy.© AP Photo / Rahmat Gul,In a post-op analysis of the events, General Yasin Zia, the former chief of staff of the Afghan army, estimated that some 4,000 security forces troops were killed, and 1,000 more gone missing, in the deadly weeks between July 1 and August 15, 2021 – with that figure representing about one half of the average of 8,000 Afghan security personnel killed each year over the previous five years.,Zia estimated that in total, some 92,000 members of the Afghan security forces died in the line of duty since 2001. Up to 100,000 Afghan civilians, tens of thousands of Taliban fighters, over 3,500 US and coalition troops, and 4,000+ Western mercenaries also perished.,* An organization under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.。    最近新加坡教育界最大的新闻就是GEP要改革啦！估计各位妈妈也已经看过很多讨论在这些关于GEP的嘈杂信息之外其实最近新加坡教育界还有一个大新闻2024年的总统奖学金颁奖啦！图源：The Straits Times今年的总统奖学金得主共有三位同学分别是来自莱佛士书院高中部的陈靖凯（Emily Tan）王祎宁（Marianne Wang）以及来自华侨中学（高中部）的卓恩宇（Dylan Toh）这三位优秀的年轻学子都非常热衷于公共服务愿意投身于帮助弱势群体的事业！Marianne Wang总统奖学金 2024来自莱佛士初院，即将前往哈佛大学学习经济学的Marianne Wang（王祎宁），从小开始投身志愿服务。图源：Marianne Wang@LinkedIn最初，只是组屋楼下广告牌上的一张公告，让年仅12岁的王祎宁开始了她的志愿服务之旅。最开始她在非盈利组织SmartGuppy里，为孩子提供课程辅导，后来又加入了青年社区志愿者组织Youth Corps，在这里作为青年志愿团队领袖培训计划的一部分，她领导了一项计划，在兀兰新生命青年中心与边缘青年交朋友，传授价值观和技能。

二 | 当然优秀的娃从来不是只有一面优秀，奶盖去这位学霸小姐姐的领英上看了下，发现她不仅中学时代获奖无数。图源：Marianne Wang@LinkedIn还是新加坡青年华乐团和新加坡乒乓球青年集训队的成员。图源：Marianne Wang@LinkedIn曾经在华乐团的大型演出中表演。图源：8world新闻网，王祎宁提供甚至在国际乒联的账号下，奶盖还发现了她代表新加坡参加乒乓球比赛的英姿。图源：ITTF World果然是优秀到无解的娃啊！Emily Tan总统奖学金 2024同样来自来自莱佛士初院的另一位总统奖学金得主Emily Tan（陈靖凯），即将前往美国斯坦福大学学习经济学。她的母亲从事公务员工作，父亲则是一名研究员。

三 | 她两年前开始在乌鲁班丹的接见选民活动上当义工，成为那里最年轻的义工之一，也开启了她对公共服务的热忱。陈靖凯在活动上了解居民的需求，协助他们写信给相关部门，为他们寻求援助。她认为，接见选民活动上真实的案例，让她更立体地了解各种社会问题和趋势。这段经验让她更加确定，了解别人的处境、尽可能协助他们改善生活，是她希望投入的事业。她受访时说：“在接见选民活动做义工，一定程度上激励我选择从事公务员职业，因为我意识到，政策对所有新加坡人的日常生活有多大的影响，从他们从事的工作、他们吃的食物，再到他们的住房。” 她在初级学院时期曾是排球队的副队长，这段经历让她学会了克服种种挑战，获益匪浅。

四 | *在莱佛士初院排球队担任副队长的陈靖凯图源：8world新闻网，陈靖凯提供陈靖凯期待在毕业后到不同的政府部门服务，为促进本地社会流动做出贡献。Dylan Toh总统奖学金 2024三位总统奖学金得主中，唯一一位获得警察部队奖学金的Dylan Toh（卓恩宇），则毕业于华侨中学。图源：Dylan Toh@LinkedIn受当警察的外公影响，他从小就被警方伸张正义的经历所吸引。

五 | 卓恩宇在接受本地媒体采访时表示，“我从小就知道自己想要一份能帮助别人的职业，所以（外公跟我说的）这些故事，在我心里种下了一颗小种子。随着我长大，有了其他的经历，这颗种子逐渐被培育起来，直到我选择了加入警察部队。” 图源：8world新闻网，卓恩宇提供卓恩宇在担任华侨中学学生会秘书长期间，领导组织了各种活动，包括2021年华侨中学亚太青年领袖峰会和2022年迎新活动。另外，他也在骨髓捐赠计划The Bone Marrow Donor Programme担任义工，负责组织筹款活动，帮助提高人们对骨髓捐赠的认识。

六 | 卓恩宇即将前往美国加州大学伯克利分校学习数据科学，毕业后将回国加入新加坡警察部队。在新加坡，最难拿的奖学金非总统奖学金莫属，它是新加坡最高荣誉的学术奖学金，也是培养新加坡政要人物的摇篮。

七 | 辣妈每年都会介绍总统奖学金的得主，那么总统奖学金到底是怎么选拔的？什么样的孩子会获得总统奖学金呢？辣妈小编今天就带大家科普一下总统奖学金~没有奖金的总统奖学金总统奖学金是新加坡最负盛名的公共本科奖学金，意在表彰那些在同类中脱颖而出、在各种追求中表现出卓越的个人。

八 | 总统奖学金的获得者，应该致力于改善新加坡人的生活并体现公共服务精神。在完成大学学业后，都有法定服务义务，即参与公共服务工作一段时间，通常为4至6年。总统奖学金本身不颁发任何奖金，它通常在新加坡公共服务领域奖学金的获得者中遴选，如以下几类奖学金：新加坡武装部队奖学金新加坡警察部队奖学金新加坡公共服务奖学金新加坡政治人物的摇篮从新加坡1965年开国到现在，只有200多位总统奖学金得奖人。许多得奖主都成为了新加坡重要政治人物，包括李显龙，1970年18岁的李显龙就获得了总统奖学金，利用这笔钱，他去剑桥进行了深造。

九 | △1970年，总统奖学金获得者与时任总统尤索夫（左四）合影，左三为李显龙。李显龙总理的弟弟李显扬、夫人何晶、前总理吴作栋、前国家发展部部长马宝山、外交部长维文等等，都曾是总统奖学金获得者。

十 | 最后，让我们为这三位优秀的年轻人鼓掌祝贺！作为家长，我们也很希望孩子能够向他们学习，用榜样的力量，让自己变得更好~。

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