military support and corruption they were able to stand on their own against taliban forces. secretary austan, general milley, general mckenzie you have each led troops in afghanistan and advised the nation s top leaders and played significant roles throughout this war and i hope you are forthcoming in your answers today. to begin i would ask that you provide an accounting of the intelligence and other key assessments that factored into your judgments about the viability of the afghan government and afghan forces and how those trends changed over time. i would like to know any lessons you ve identified how we can more effectively work with, by and through partner nations in the future. i would like to understand what factors you attribute to the taliban s success and whether we miss educators and warnings of their imminent takeover. while we have transitioned our military from afghanistan after achieving our counter terrorism objectives we must continue to
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