Marine Corps Commandant Wants Review of Afghanistan Evacuation
“While it's relatively fresh in our minds, we need the honest, open critique,” Gen. Berger says.
By Caitlin M. Kenney
Staff Reporter
September 1, 2021
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger wants his staff to examine the recent evacuation mission in Afghanistan to learn what went wrong, what went right, and what the service can learn for the future.
“While it's relatively fresh in our minds, we need the honest, open critique, or a commission or whatever it is, that cracks open what were the options that were available. Who made what decisions at what time. Not so that we can penalize or hang somebody by a yardarm, but actually so that we can learn,” Berger said Wednesday during an event with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
Berger said they are looking at past reviews to decide on a framework for this review, such as the Long and Holloway commissions that looked into the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 and the failed Iranian hostage rescue mission in 1980, respectively.
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