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That included the deaths of 13 u.s. service members from a terrorist bombing of the kabul airport. let s bring in the author of the new book saving aziz marine veteran chad and retired army lieutenant colonel daniel davis. gentlemen, thank you. welcome, both. chad, you wrote in an op ed earlier this week in part, quoting here, while our team tried to pick up the slack for the government s evacuation failures, our own state department seemed to sabotage our rescue efforts by dragging their feet and hog tying us with bureaucratic red tape. it was as though they had decided if they couldn t save everyone, then they would make sure no one could. you believe the state department hindered the process of getting people out. fair? absolutely, yes! and not only that, from the very beginning, you know, the white house took the neo operation, a noncombatant evacuation operation away from the d.o.d. which is their rightful place for the job and gave it to the ....
Tactical reason to hold bagram. i assume that means strategically would you see value i said no tactical reason to hold bagram, talking about the neo operation. we went to 650 and given order to conduct neo. for the reason the secretary and chairman outlined, center of gravity was hkia, where people are, mog operating to move airplanes in and out. i will tell you this, representative, we had a branch plan to seize bagram air field, should hkia have become untenable. that would have required significant invest nment combat power and bagram and hkia never became untenable, we did not have to consider that plan, although we had highly detailed plan to do it, it was not necessary, we were able to maintain throughput at hkia and had we gone in bagram, introduced significant combat ....
In place to make sure hakia, airport in kabul was secure and we had a secure facility, in the course of 72 airs. back to the neodiscussion, the pentagon spokesman kirby denied there was neo-operation in operation. he admitted there was neo-operation going on. i m curious, mr. secretary, what date did the administration actually decide to execute the neo-plan and when did they begin to actively evacuate all american? i believe triggered by the collapse of the government and the security forces. who made the decision to exit the neo? ultimately, the president would be asked for his decision and approval to do that. based on the recommendation of ....
Evacuees as well, if they get intelligence of when they re moving and where they re coming in, so this is certainly the most dangerous time of this evacuation. i ve been saying that from the beginning. the last three days are the toughest time of any kind of neo operation. we saw overnight for the first time the first test of what president biden is calling this new over the horizon strategy and capability, which is we re getting off the ground and we re going to attack those like isis-k, who claimed responsibility for the attack on our troops there from the air with drones, with amenrmed missiles. how good can that be in preventing afghanistan from becoming a breeding ground for terrorists when you don t have the intelligence on the ground anymore? well, there will still be some intelligence on the ground. i won t talk about where that is right. ....
Been talking about for a while on cnn and various programs. this is all part of a neo operation, you re going to have different phases of the operation. we saw the first couple of days being the chaotic phase and it moved out and we were starting to get a lot of folks out. we re now in the time when the enemy is about to get a vote or they re trying to get a vote. and that s why the embassy issued this warning tonight. i don t think this is the end of the evacuation, but we re going to go into another phase here pretty soon if we can contain any threats to the airfield. we re going to go into a phase where we end this thing. and there are going to be some last flights out. it s going to be heart wrenching. there s going to be equipment moved and soldiers ready to defend the runway and defend the final airplanes going out, but it s going to be difficult. the alert, general, says ....