Top General Says U.S. Has Achieved Only A 'Modicum Of Success' After Two Decades Of War In Afghanistan

 

  

Defense One: US Has Achieved ‘Modicum of Success’ in Afghanistan, Top General Says 

But years of military stalemate make negotiating with the Taliban the only option, Gen. Mark Milley says.  

Two decades of war in Afghanistan have seen a “modicum of success” but also years of “strategic stalemate,” the nation’s top general said Wednesday in one of the military’s frankest assessments of progress in the wartorn nation in recent memory. 

The United States has been successful at preventing another 9/11-style attack from originating in Afghanistan, Gen. Mark Milley said during an online Brookings event, through its model of training and supporting the Afghan military and working with the government in Kabul. 

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WNU Editor: A brutal and honest assessment of the Afghanistan war from a senior Pentagon official .... finally. 

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