As veterans process end of Afghanistan war, Pentagon to sort through lessons learned
By Meghann Myers
Wednesday, Sep 1
Two weeks ago to the day, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs told reporters it was too soon to start the after-action reports on what went wrong in 20 years of deployments to Afghanistan. Wednesday, days out from the final flight of U.S. troops out of Kabul’s airport, Pentagon leadership signaled its time to get to work.
While the evacuation operation at Hamid Karzai International Airport successfully evacuated more than 124,000 people, effort is still shadowed by those left behind, those killed in the process and two decades of decision-making that led up to it.
“As we always do this department will look back, clearly and professionally, and learn every lesson that we can,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. “That’s our way.”
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2021/09/01/as-veterans-process-end-of-afghanistan-war-pentagon-to-sort-through-lessons-learned/
