On american doctrine, tactics, and that is a military that may, i will wait full evaluation, but they may have been present on us and higher tech systems to fight a counter insurgency war. another is the intel. how did we miss a collapse that big. but things like corruption, the paracidic nature of the police forces. we need to look at it very seriously and comprehensively overtime. do we know where the former president of afghanistan is today and how much money he took with him? secretary austin, do you have
0 why wasn t action taken to secure the kabul airport or retake bagram then? thank you, senator. you re right, the tempo had picked up significantly, yet the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie routinely engaged the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and further stiffen their defenses, to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. i don t mean to interrupt you, but my time is lapsing. this gets to the overestimation, i think the overly optimistic assessment, because even as late as july you re still encouraging the afghan special forces, you re expecting the ghani government to remain. in december of 2019, the washington post reported that the u.s. military commanders privately express