He would hold urban planning meetings while we had districts falling,” he said.Īccording to a former Afghan Interior Minister, Afghan security officials briefed Ghani about the impending U.S. “For God’s sake, we had provinces falling and he would still bloody hold National Procurement Council meetings for four hours.

government agencies, the Ghani administration, and the Taliban,” the report states. forces “set in motion a series of events crucial to understanding the ANDSF’s collapse,” the decision by both President Donald Trump and Biden to leave “fundamentally altered every subsequent decision by U.S. While the Trump administration’s agreement with the Taliban in 2020 to pull U.S.

forces departed after 20 years of war, blamed both the Trump and Biden administrations for the mess. The report to Congress, meant to update lawmakers on why the Afghan government collapsed so rapidly when U.S. American troops ended up leaving roughly $7.2 billion in weapons and equipment including at least 78 aircraft and over 40,000 vehicles for the Taliban to possibly use. What’s more, bad planning and limited oversight on billions of dollars in weapons and equipment given to Afghan’s forces added to the mess.

support to the ANDSF destroyed the morale of Afghan soldiers and police,” Sopko wrote in the report’s summery.Īs the United States had created a force “that could not operate independently and set unrealistic milestones for ANDSF capability development,” the eventual collapse “was predictable,” he notes. military personnel and dramatically reduce U.S. military forces, the decision to withdraw all U.S.

The swift disintegration was brought on by the United States having no “political will” or “dedicated resources to initiate the wholesale development of another nation’s army,” Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko concluded in his final report.

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