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August 15th. i do note that. they could have fought aund held parts of kabul had the president stai.d it demoreized those members of combat. they were disorganized by that and led to the taliban pushing in as fast as they wanted to go into the center of the city. >> i do want to point out for the record that to my knowledge and memory, this committee never had a hearing on the decision to withdraw from afghanistan in february of 2020. and it now appears that would have been a beneficial hearing because we could have discussed all of these issues and -- but we were already on the path for withd...

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 the military and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. >> mr. secretary i don...