The U.S. military’s biggest stories of 2021
By Military Times staff
Dec 29, 2021
The final U.S. servicemember to leave Afghanistan in the wake of a nearly 20-year war was 82nd Airborne Division commander Maj. Gen. Christopher Donahue. He boarded the final C-17 out of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan at 11:59 p.m. local time on August 30, 2021, just one minute shy of the deadline for American forces to withdraw. (Jack Holt/U.S. Central Command)
From the Capitol riot to the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, national security stories dominated discussions in 2021 as the world began to move beyond the pandemic.
And those themes were evident in many of the articles Military Times readers viewed most in 2021. Each section reflects either several stories from a significant event or a single story that generated attention in the past year. (When curating the list, editors chose to leave out top stories from the Military Times’ Observation Post.)
The Jan. 6 Capitol Riot
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