by the u. s. state department claims that biden administration bungled several aspects of the 2021 withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan, according to sources who have seen the state department report. there are far more findings and recommendations in it, then the document that was put out by the white house specifically related to how the biden administration could have better prepared for the withdrawal. white house document released thursday did admit that evacuations should have happened sooner, but mainly blames the chaotic withdrawal on decisions made by the previous administration, including the agreement. former president trump reached with the taliban. joining us now to talk about all of this is cnn military analyst retired lieutenant general mark hertling, former commanding general of the u. s army, europe and seventh army. general. good to see you again. first your thoughts on the discrepancies between the white house document and the state department document that
again. you were getting an update there on that helicopter crash what they called a truly tragic loss. we know that nine service members were killed, they were flying two blackhawk helicopters, five soldiers and 14 in the other. getting more details. it was it happened at night. they were using night vision i want to bring in cnn s oren liebermann, who is still with us from the pentagon, cnn military analyst lieutenant general mark hertling, former commanding general for the u. s. army europe and seventh army. great to have you both with us or in let s start first with you walk us through what we ve learned now about the training and what was going on. when this collision. this crash happened. this crash of these two h h. 60. black hawk helicopters happened last night as part of a training exercise we learned from brigadier general john lucas there he is the deputy commander for operations for the 101st airborne division, and he gave us some more information about what was happening he
the ccp is increasingly convinced that it can only do so at the expense of u.s. power and influence. joining me now is cnn global affairs analyst kim dozier and retired lieutenant general mark hertling, he is a military analyst and former commander general of the u.s. army, europe and seventh army. kim, that quote, china remains our unparalleled priority, that s really significant, especially in the context this week of china basically warning the united states to tone down the rhetoric, but it almost seems as though both sides are denying their role in the spiraling of tensions between the two and the u.s. intelligence community is not backing down. absolutely. the u.s. intelligence community years back felt like nobody was listening to their repeated warnings about beijing s expansion and intentions of expansion in terms of military,
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) and the International Studies Leadership Council (ISLC) cohosted retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General Mark Hertling for a lecture on Ukraine on Feb. 21. This was the second event in this year’s “Paradigm Shift” symposium series.