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Question for the record, please? we re trying to keep to five-minute questioning rounds. you can ask the question in your second round if you d like. thank you. senator peters. thank you, madam chair. thank you to each and every one of you for your service to our country. i want to return to some of the comments made by senator warner warren and looking at over the last 20 years. if ever we re going to have a strategic assessment of what happened in afghanistan it s important that any kind of strategic assessment is not just a look at the present but look at the past and look at future and look at all three elements making that assessment. if we re going to do that, we have to look at over the last 20 years we were in afghanistan and we need a hard assessment of that. general milley, you said decisions have consequences and there are a lot of lessons to be ....
We re trying to keep to a 5-minute questioning rounds. you can ask the question in your second round if you d like. thank you. senator peters. thank you, madam chair. thank you to each and every one of you for your service to our country. i want to return to some of the comments made by senator warren. if ever we re going to have a strategic assessment of what happened in afghanistan, it s important that any kind of strategic assessment does not just look at the present but look at the past and the future. if we re going to do that, we have to look over the last 20 years we were in afghanistan and we re going to have to have a pretty hard nosed assessment of that. general milley you mentioned that strategic decisions have consequences and there are a lot ....
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 ....
0 thank you, senator. you re right, the tempo upped significantly, the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engage the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troop, 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. mr. secretary, i don t mean to interrupt you but my time is elapsing. so this gets to the overestimation that i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you re still encouraging the afghan special forces. you re expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the washington post reported that the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the afghan army a ....