The Cipher Brief Open Source Report for Tuesday, August 31, 2021

It’s Tuesday August 31 and we are on the road today, joining you from Texas, where we are scouting locations for an upcoming Cipher Brief event. We’re looking forward to sharing more on that with you in the very near future. But let’s get to the lead today: US forces have completed their withdrawal from Kabul - ending Washington’s 20-year mission in Afghanistan.