Question. The generals give advice, the civilians make the decisions. If that's true then can we sa

[rangerrebew]

 Question. The generals give advice, the civilians make the decisions. If that's true then can we say Biden lost the Afghanistan war?
 

    Milley was not the only top U.S. military commander who foresaw that America’s Afghan allies could not survive without American forces on the ground. Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie Jr., the head of U.S. Central Command, told lawmakers on Tuesday that he had recommended last fall that the military keep 4,500 troops in the country.

    “I also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the Afghan military forces, and eventually the Afghan government,” McKenzie said.

    On Nov. 9, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper recommended to Trump that the U.S. military maintain between 2,500 and 4,500 troops in Afghanistan until conditions on the ground permitted further reductions, Milley said.

https://www.snafu-solomon.com/2021/09/question-generals-give-advice-civilians.html

[Smokin Joe]

Biden turned a deaf ear toward the (competent) Generals and National Security folks who tried to warn him, of that I have little doubt. That makes that disaster all his. You don't have to be a War College grad to see where the whole SNAFU was FUBAR.