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People that i served with, they're good people who i admire, the afghans, and i'm worried about them, and i'm worried about their families. and i want them to get here because they deserve it. >> jason, i'm so glad that you're reaching out to your fellow soldiers and folks who were there. and take care of yourself. be well. thank you. >> thanks, don. appreciate it. also tonight, the taliban releasing this video of their co-founder, mullah abdul ghani baradar, arriving in kandahar. it is the first time that he has set foot in afghanistan in 20 years. joining me now, two people who have done a...

Admire, the afghans, and i'm worried about them and their families and i want them to get here, because they deserve it. >> jason, i'm so glad you're reaching out to your fellow soldiers and folks who are there, and take care of u yourself. be well. thank you. >> i will. thanks, don, appreciate it. also tonight, taliban releasing this video of their cof cofounder arriving in kandahar. it is the first time he's set foot in afghanistan in 20 years. joining me now, two people who have done a lot of reporting on this taliban founder. author of "eagle down" the last special forces fighting the fo...

Print this article Lawmakers and security experts are broadcasting their shock and concern over President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, slamming what they see as an “arbitrary” decision to bring troops home by Sept. 11. The United States had been facing a May 1 deadline set by former President Donald Trump to pull out its remaining 2,500 soldiers plus roughly 1,000 special operations forces. Biden had called that date too logistically difficult to meet but still opted for a full withdrawal later in the year despite the Taliban retaining links to al Qaeda. It...

“At the beginning of the administration, President Biden established new interim guidance concerning the United States’ use of military force and related national security operations,” National Security Council (NSC) spokeswoman Emily Horne said. Horne said that the purpose of the restrictions was to ensure that the president has “full visibility” on proposed, significant operations while the NSC staff leads a review of the legal and policy frameworks governing drone strikes. The review will also seek to ensure appropriate transparency measures, she said. This move met with pushback...

The Life of a Soldier Roman soldiers fighting against the Dacians by Nicolas Beatrizet, 1553.Credit...Heritage Art/Heritage Images, via Getty Images By Thomas E. Ricks In his encyclopedic GLADIUS: The World of the Roman Soldier (University of Chicago, $30), Guy de la Bédoyère collects pretty much every fact known about what it was like to be in the military arm of the Roman Empire — which was pretty much the only limb of government power outside Rome. Rome’s soldiers were surprisingly literate, because the Roman Army emphasized precise record-keeping. They also were a remarkably divers...