Report: Army Commanders Say White House, State Department Didn’t Grasp Kabul Collapse
Military
By Dustin Jones | February 09, 2022
Military leaders advised the White House and Department of State to prepare the US Embassy and Afghan allies for evacuation weeks before the Taliban blitzed across Afghanistan and overran Kabul, but that advice was cast aside, according to a massive investigative report released this week by the Army.
The report was first disclosed by The Washington Post Tuesday, Feb. 8.
The 2,000-page report covers 139 interviews with high-ranking Pentagon officials who oversaw the drawdown of troops across Afghanistan to the front-line soldiers and Marines who were at the Kabul airport during the chaotic final days. Typical among comments from senior leaders were those of Navy Rear Adm. Peter Vasely, the head of US forces on the ground at the time, who told investigators that American service members would have been better prepared to handle the evacuation “if policymakers had paid attention to the indicators of what was happening on the ground.”
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