Experts Challenge Biden’s Afghanistan Withdrawal Prediction
Mil & Intel
By James R. Webb | July 09, 2021
During televised remarks on Afghanistan from the White House on Thursday, President Joe Biden said the US would be “out” of Afghanistan by the close of August. The speech followed reports of Bagram Airfield being hastily vacated under cover of darkness last week. Perhaps more pressing are the mounting questions about the viability of Afghan security forces who continue to cede ground to the Taliban.
“There’s going to be no circumstance where you see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the United States from Afghanistan,” Biden said Thursday.
A map of Afghanistan as of Monday, July 5, 2021, showing the control of various districts and the population centers of Afghanistan. The Taliban has captured 31 districts since May 1, 2021. Image courtesy of The Long War Journal/released.
The situation on the ground in Afghanistan is rapidly deteriorating. Taliban forces are advancing nationwide, and Kabul’s armed forces have begun to buckle under the pressure. This week some 1,000 Afghan soldiers fled across the border into neighboring Tajikistan — a move that spurred Russia to offer assistance to its former Soviet ally.
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