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Afghan solidiers patrol in Khost Province, 2010     Before his ouster as Secretary of Defense on November 9th, Mark Esper sent a worried memo to Donald Trump stating that it was the “unanimous” recommendation of the chain of command for the war in Afghanistan that conditions were not ready for the president’s proposed US troop withdrawal. The generals charged with prosecuting the war in Afghanistan saw Trump’s recent troop drawdown order as counter-strategic folly driven purely by the president’s optics-driven desire to proclaim to his neo-isolationist followers that he ended “e...

Set in in some of the leadership in washington and now we're starting to see the deployment of about 50 special operators into syria. what are they going to do? they're going to work with the local forces. but one of the main things you're going to do is try and get more air power in there more effectively. what they're doing right now just isn't working. they're doing air power, and they're going after targets but these targets can't be very close to troops. if you want to really hurt isis you have to hit them on the front lines. and right now the sorties can't do that because you don't have ...

The crash and tonight our nation in mourning. mourning the greatest loss of american lives since combat in afghanistan a decade ago. jennifer? >>reporter: harris what i can confirm well were 25 special operators . members of special operation forces killed. they were members of seal team 6 from the east coast and west coast teams. there were five crew members on board from the army including three combat controllers and an interertor and it could have been a rocket propelled grenade as they were in the tail end of the mission. they were fighting and on the way out when the helicopter was struc...