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Afghans. i visited with afghans, our troop, many federal agencies work together, n gegos. compassion on the american side and the deep appreciation on the afghan side. my chief criticism is why did the afghan military and government collapse so quickly and why did we overestimate their capacity? the second half of that question is important. to any who said we couldn't see this coming, members of the committee know that's wrong. an immediate collapse maybe wouldn't have been the most likely but we've heard estimates of after again strength were overestimated. we had a good evacuation plan but ...

Administration that wanted a political victory more than they wanted an american racial inequitiry. have you reached out to the aircrew to make sure they understand it's not their sfaul there are seven dead children? >> i have not, senator. as you probably know, i've directed a three-star review of this incident, general mckenzie did an initial investigation, and i directed a three-star review and so i won't make any comments. >> you know, certainly seem to be a lot of indications that a terrorist event was likely if not imminent leading up to the isis-k bombing on the 26th. were our military ...

But the rest of the ecosystem would go out with it too. the nato partners are going to leave and you'll leave the afghans by themselves. >> did any of you embrace the notion that the 2,500 plus the several thousand, i think an estimated 5,000 nato allies and partners who were willing to stay there as well, did any of you agree with the president's assessment that if he acted on that recommendation that he would ultimately have to send tens of thousands more u.s. service members to afghanistan, that if we held that one, it would ultimately just delay the day where we would be back to 100,000 or...

Happened next. once president biden made the decision to have u.s. forces leave the country, who designed the evacuation? >> well, senator, again, i won't address what i advised -- the advice i gave to the president. i would just say in his calculus this was not risk free and the taliban, as we've said earlier in this hearing, were committed to recommencing their operations gen our forces. his assessment was in order to sustain that and continue to do things that benefitted the afghans, that would require at some point that he increase the -- our presence there in afghanistan. so but once he m...

At one point we had a number of advisers down to fairly low levels. as we began to lift the numbers of advisers there and scaled back on the people we had interfacing with the afghans on a daily basis, we began to lose that fingertip feel. it continued to erode and the smaller we got. >> it wasn't just at the end. it was an endemic problem for ooem over a decade. that's my final question. what are we actually doing to learn from the conclusion of these military operations, particularly from a strategic assessment point of view when it comes to end-of-conflict transition? we'll have potentially...