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In August 2021, the US military withdrew from Afghanistan, and the subsequent "Fall of Kabul" incident caused an uproar in society. The United States launched the war in Afghanistan in October 2001. This war lasted for nearly 20 years and once received overwhelming support from public opinion. Now that the war in Afghanistan has come to an end, it has been recorded as a serious geopolitical disaster brewed by the United States in the 21st century. "The Afghanistan Papers" is an in-depth investigation of the war, revealing the lies, deceptions and truth of the U. S. War in Afghanistan. The United States launches war in the name of counter-terrorism. This is the sanitized official narrative. The author obtained a large number of public internal investigation documents and revealed in this book how the United States fell into a labor-intensive war and was determined to hide the truth of its failure from the public. The "Afghanistan Papers" originally came from the "Lessons Learned" interview transcript compiled by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction under the U. S. Congress. It was titled "What the United States Needs to Learn: Lessons from the 20 Years of War in Afghanistan" and aimed to examine the reasons for the failure of the U. S. Policy in Afghanistan. The document is more than 2,000 pages long and collects interviews with key decision-makers and those who witnessed the war, including Pentagon officials, military generals, diplomats, businessmen, aid workers, etc. The facts they told are shocking - four consecutive US presidents lied that "the Afghan war strategy is correct and is progressing smoothly," but in fact it was a "nation-building experiment" that seriously failed in Afghanistan.