DOD: General Says Planning, Connectivity Were Keys to Afghanistan Evacuation
October 13, 2021
October 13, 2021
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news on Oct. 12, 2021:
By Jim Garamone
Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called U.S. efforts in Afghanistan a "tactical success, but a strategic failure."
The Afghan government and military fell to the Taliban faster than anyone expected, and that was the failure, he said.
But the noncombatant evacuation operation managed to g . . .
By Jim Garamone
Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called U.S. efforts in Afghanistan a "tactical success, but a strategic failure."
The Afghan government and military fell to the Taliban faster than anyone expected, and that was the failure, he said.
But the noncombatant evacuation operation managed to g . . .