Hegseth: Pentagon doing ‘complete review’ of Afghanistan withdrawal
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is conducting "a complete review" of the U.S. military's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The United States military's presence in Afghanistan ended in August 2021, 20 years after the war began in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the U.S., though the chaotic nature of the final weeks has been the subject of significant scrutiny.
"We're doing a complete review of every single aspect of what happened with the botched withdrawal of Afghanistan and plan to have full accountability," Hegseth said ahead of the president's first complete Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. "We're taking a very different view, obviously, than the previous administration, and there will be full accountability."
He did not specify who was leading the review, the parameters they were dealing with, or if the investigators had a deadline for when to get a report to him. The Office of the Secretary of Defense did not respond to a request for additional information on the review.
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