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0 retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. you are right, the tempo had picked up significantly. the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engaged in after began leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and stiffen their defenses to no avail. and to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of t...

0 >> thank you, senator. youre 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 ...

0 theres no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan which was our core original mission. and everyone who served in that war should be proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when the ambassador signed the doha agreement...

0 to work, to come out of bagram. no way to keep bagram and go to effective zero in >> well, thinking of what we have -- may have gained or may have lost as we leave. we think about countering adversaries, so again, general mckenzie what is your assessment of the foreign influence in afghanistan, the wake of our - hosted what we called the conference. we all adversaries from filling the we talk about that region after the fall of afghanistan. generally what they want is they want assurance. they...

0 theres no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan, which was our core original mission. and everyone who has served in that war has been proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when ambassador calisade signed the agree...

Answer questions. what do you want to come up without giving too much away, what do you want to ask? >> certainly what we want to find out as did the president really know and understand the ramifications of the withdrawal? what was the advice that was given by our top military commanders to the president and was at censure to basically buy his political advisement team? so what were the ramifications to not only those that were serving in uniform and afghanistan, the civilians that we had on th...

Part of an anti-terrorist operation. for the latest, lets go to jerusalem, hadas gold is standing by. hi, good to see you. bring us up to date on what we know here. >> reporter: yeah, robyn, in the last couple of hours were learning about this operation that took place in the west bank. as you said, four palestinians were killed, two were arrested. according to the israeli defense forces spokesperson, this was part of a major days long operation last night. the spokesperson said they took action...

Says in part, the secretary of defense may assign to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff responsibility for overseeing the activities of the combat commands, such assignment by the secretary to the chairman does not confer any command authority on the chairman and does not alter the responsibility of the commanders of the combat commands. in other words, he has no role in any combat command, none. hes a coordinator. hes a facilitator. hes an advisor. hes a communicator. and his people have...

Should be dishonorably discharged if they disobey the order to get the covid vaccine. heres the statement and get your reaction on the back end, quote, the administration strongly opposes section 716 which would detract from commanders options for enforcing good order and discipline when a servicemember fails to obey a lawful order to receive vaccination, to enable uniform forced to fight with disciplined matters must have the ability to give orders and take disciplinary measures. are you buying...

To campus provided they show no symptoms. pentagon press secretary says military service members who refuse to be vaccinated against covid-19 could face disciplinary action; however, john kirby says that action does not have to rise to the level of a discharge. kirby says more than 90% of the 1.3 million active duty military members have already received at least one dose. he says the defense secretary expects commanders to do everything they can to inform and educate service members. new jersey...