a limit to how long, where, and against whom we can continue military action without a new authorization in order to finally put a stop to endless wars and prevent them in the future. second, there should be a comprehensive, rigorous, and objective audit on the war in its entirety. over the last 20 years the united states spent more than $2 trillion on the war in afghanistan and we lost thousands of american lives and tens of thousands of afghan civilians. i commend the specialment in or the general for afghan reconstruction for it independent and octoberive oversight of the afghan reconstruction. but i do have questions beyond that. first, general milley, in your testimony, you said you mentioned that there are many lessons to be learned. what did you mean by that statement? senator, thank you. i think there s a series of strategic lessons to be learned, and i would echo some of the ones that senator reed mentioned early on.
0 there s no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan which was our core original mission. and everyone who served in that war should be proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when the ambassador signed the doha agreement lton 29 february 2020 the united states had 12,600 troops with 8,000 nato and 10,500 contractors. this has been a ten-year multi-administration drawdown, not a 19-month or 19-day one. under the doha agreement, the u.s. would begin to withdraw forces contingent upon taliban meeting certain conditions, which would lead to a political agreement between the taliban and the government of afghanistan. there were seven conditions applicable to the taliban and eight conditions applicable to the united
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