by Dave Patterson | Apr 7, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion, Politics
A White House review of the administration’s decision-making and execution of the deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan is, at best, self-serving and, at worst, political deception on the level of Russia’s explanation of why it invaded Ukraine. As the House...
by Dave Patterson | Mar 23, 2023 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
In its first hearing on the disastrous US withdrawal of military and civilian personnel from Afghanistan, the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) learned the murder of 13 US military service members by a terrorist suicide bomber might have been prevented....
by Dave Patterson | Feb 4, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Republicans have published the first detailed congressional report on President Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan debacle. Titled “Left Behind: A Brief Assessment of the Biden Administration’s Strategic Failures...
by Mark Angelides | Aug 31, 2021 | Articles, Biden Administration, Opinion
The last of the U.S. troops have left Afghanistan, and the 20-year engagement in the region is officially over. There remain several hundred Americans either unable or unwilling to leave and countless Afghans who helped in the American and allied forces in the war...
by Mark Angelides | Aug 25, 2021 | Articles, Biden Administration, Good Reads, Opinion
The messaging from the Biden administration and the president himself all appear to have amounted to naught. Whether it was promising that all Afghans who helped in the American war effort would be evacuated or dodging real questions in favor of pre-selected...