Milley claims he recommended 2,500 troops stsy in Afghanistan

[seymourflops]

Top Pentagon officials grilled on Afghanistan

Biden has denied that his top military advisers wanted troops to remain in Afghanistan.

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Biden has previously denied anyone told him that that he can remember.

I believe Biden. I doubt he was told and I doubt he'd remember if they did. Team Biden knew though.

Millet also claims he was surprised the US trained and backed Afghan Security forces "melted" with hardly a shot fired. Why would that surprise him? Why be the last men to be killed in a losing war?

Thanks to our MIC, that honor fell once again to Americans.

 

[Nomad4Ever]

I'm glad we didn't leave anyone. It was time to leave. We failed at creating a stable state and another 10 years wasn't going to fix that failure.

 

[Cameron]

Weren’t there only 2,500-3,500 troops there in early 2021?

www.nytimes.com/2021/03/14/world/asia/us-troops-afghanistan.amp.html

 

[joluoto]

Weren’t there only 2,500-3,500 troops there in early 2021?

www.nytimes.com/2021/03/14/world/asia/us-troops-afghanistan.amp.html

Hardly enough troops to stall the Talibans, and the plan was at that point to get all military out by May.

 

[craig]

There was a moment in Tuesday’s Senate hearing on the withdrawal from Afghanistan when it became clear why President Joe Biden decided to get the troops out of there as quickly as possible.

It came when Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, explained why he and the other chiefs—the top officers of the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines—all agreed that we needed to pull out by Aug. 31. The Doha agreement, which President Trump had signed with the Taliban in early 2020 (with no participation by the Afghan government), required a total withdrawal of foreign forces. If U.S. troops had stayed beyond August, Milley said, the Taliban would have resumed the fighting, and, in order to stave off the attacks, “we would have needed 30,000 troops” and would have suffered “many casualties.”

We Now Know Why Biden Was in a Hurry to Exit Afghanistan

He made several missteps, but on the big picture, he was right.

slate.com

 

[Gladiator]

Paid or Unpaid?

The Afghan army was 6 months behind in paying soldiers their wages in the spring of 2021.





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[Gladiator]

Heard no Questions in the hearings about the arrearages for police and soldier paychecks.

Heard no questions from US congressional committees on the delays in processing Visas for translators. Was Trump trying to get by on the cheap?

"Some generals pocketed pay meant for soldiers. Others were supposed to buy the best rice for their troops. Instead they bought the cheapest and lowest quality possible and pocketed the difference. Still others sold government-issued firewood meant to keep the troops warm.

Frotan said the system was marked by cronyism, with not enough loyalty to the troops. The leaders were not only corrupt. Some of them were illiterate.

"They don't know how to write. They don't know how to read," Frotan said. "How to be professional soldiers and leadership is very, very important."





The Congressional hearings are just a cover up.

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