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 Today's D Brief: Taliban strike another U.S. base; China’s hypersonics use US tech; Biden, Abdullah talk; USAF’s decision app; And a bit more.
By Ben Watson
April 8, 2021 10:38 AM ET

    The D Brief

For at least the second time in recent weeks, the Taliban have attacked a U.S. base in Afghanistan, which is complicating President Joe Biden’s call on when and how to withdraw American troops from the country, CNN reported Wednesday.

Locations hit:

    Forward Operating Base Chapman, in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province, where two separate alleged rocket attacks wounded seven civilians in late March;

    And Kandahar Airfield, in southern Afghanistan, an attack which the New York Times’ Thomas Gibbons-Neff tweeted is likely the Taliban “responding to recent US air support in Arghandab” district, just outside of Kandahar City.

One reason why this matters now: The Taliban seems to now be “overtly responding to perceived [the February 2020] Doha deal violations by attacking American/NATO targets,” according to Neff. That deal calls for the removal of U.S. troops by the first of May; however, Biden’s team is reviewing that policy and has not yet announced a formal change of plans.

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/04/the-d-brief-april-08-2021/173220/