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| PHOTOS: Here Are Just Some of the Capabilities Thrown Away By US Commanders at Bagram Air Base |
| 2021-08-29 |
| [PJMedia] Bagram Air Base was a world-class platform from which the United States could project any form of military power across Afghanistan in the heart of Central Asia. Joe Biden ordered the U.S. to reduce the number from 2,500 troops at the beginning of his term to between 600 and 700 troops in the drawdown, an order that according to Gen. Mark Milley forced the military to have to choose between defending that base, which had two runways, during the evacuation, or defending the embassy and Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA) in the heart of Kabul, which has just one runway. The military, according to Gen. Milley, recognized that 600-700 troops would not be enough to secure Bagram, so it opted for HKIA. HKIA is now surrounded by an unknown number of enemy fighters belonging to the Taliban, ISIS-K, and al Qaeda — names that denote distinctions without much actual differences in ideology or capability. They’re all terrorists. Bagram closed in the dead of night on July 5, 2021. Afghan army forces occupied it but the Taliban captured it around August 14, 2021, and promptly freed the captured terrorists held there. Prior to the terrorist attack that killed 13 Americans and numerous Afghans last week, U.S. forces had not suffered a casualty in Afghanistan in more than a year. Thursday’s attack was the deadliest day for Americans in Afghanistan in a decade. |
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