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Como pollo sin cabeza. Así andan en la Casa Blanca: desde el mismísimo presidente, Joe Biden, hasta la propia cúpula de Defensa. La sucesión de acciones y... 30.09.2021, Sputnik Mundo

"The signing of the Doha agreement had a really pernicious effect on the government of Afghanistan and on its military," Gen. Frank McKenzie, the head of Central Command, told the House Armed Services Committee.

Senior Pentagon officials said Wednesday that the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August could be traced to a 2020 U.S. agreement with the Taliban that promised a complete U.S. troop withdrawal, although the most-senior general insisted that the problems went back further than the previous administration.

Senior Pentagon officials said Wednesday the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August could be traced to a 2020 U.S.

Analysis: Senators’ questions to military leadership a contest in sharing out responsibility for failures

During a heated Senate hearing, Gen. Mark Milley also defended his actions in the final months of the Trump administration.

No obstante, en una entrevista concedida el pasado mes de agosto a ABC, el mandatario estadounidense aseveró que ninguno de sus asesores militares le recomendó posponer la retirada.

Two top commanders said troops should have stayed to bolster the Afghan government

Durante audiencia ante Congreso de EE.UU., altos mandos militares contradijeron al presidente Biden, quien había negado recibir una recomendación así.

WASHINGTON — The top U.S. military officer called the 20-year war in Afghanistan a “strategic failure” and acknowledged to Congress on Tuesday that he had favored keeping several thousand troops in the country to prevent a collapse of the...