Gen. Mark Milley will testify before Congress on Tuesday for the first time since retiring, offering new insight on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday for the first time since retiring, potentially freeing him to offer new details about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Joining Milley will be retired Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, who served as United States Central Command commander during the 2021 withdrawal.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has so far refused to offer interview notes relating to the Afghanistan after action report, which blamed senior officials for failing to prepare for all outcomes in the operation. Despite the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers and the abandoning of tens of thousands of Afghan allies to Taliban rule, Biden strongly believes behind closed doors that he made the right decisions during the operation, according to an upcoming book.
Following the withdrawal, 'no one offered to resign, in large part because the president didn't believe anyone had made a mistake. Ending the war was always going to be messy,' author Alexander Ward writes in the book, 'The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore Foreign Policy After Trump.
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