The US decision to leave Afghanistan under both the Trump and Biden administrations was the driving factor behind the swift collapse of the Afghan military as the Taliban swept across the country with stunning speed last summer, according to a scathing new inspector general report released Wednesday.
The interim report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction called the US decision to withdraw -- conceived by the Trump administration in 2020 and implemented by the Biden administration in 2021 -- the"single most important factor" behind the collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
Afghan National Army troops keep watch after US forces left Bagram airfield in the north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 5, 2021. The report also criticized the way the US military left Bagram Airfield in July 2021, saying that US forces departed the base at night without notifying the new Afghan base commander."The U.S. military also shut off the electricity, enabling looters to ransack the base before security forces regained control," the inspector general wrote."Although U.S.
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