Top US general in Afghanistan says military begins closing down operations 2 hours ago Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, left, greets the commander of NATO’s Resolute Support Mission and U.S. Forces – Afghanistan, Army Gen. Scott Miller, upon arrival at Resolute Support Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 21, 2021. (Lisa Ferdinando/DoD) KABUL, Afghanistan America’s top general in Afghanistan said Sunday that the U.S. military has begun closing down operations in the country and that Afghanistan’s security forces “must be ready” to take over. “I often get asked, how are the security forces, can the security forces do the work in our absence? And my message has always been the same. They must be ready. They must be ready,” Gen. Austin Miller told Afghan journalists at a press conference in the capital Kabul.
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