"There's no question that as you pull out... our intelligence collection is diminished," Haines said. "In Afghanistan, we will want to monitor any reconstitution of terrorist groups."
The message was clear, from the mouths of military officials, the State Department and President Joe Biden himself: Aug. 30 marked the official end of the US war in Afghanistan. But, as Mark Cancian writes below, just because the US has decided it is done with Afghanistan does not mean Afghanistan is done with […]
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A top House lawmaker says Russia and China are not likely to be more aggressive to neighboring countries as a result of the US withdrawing from Afghanistan.
Intel sharing was a major discussion during PM Bennett's visit to Washington last week, as was increasing funding for F-15s and Iron Dome interceptors.
WASHINGTON: After two decades, thousands of dead and millions of lives impacted, the US has ended its formal combat mission in Afghanistan. The last C-17 exited Hamid Karzai International Airport at 3:29 PM eastern time – just before the calendar flipped to Aug 31 Kabul time, the deadline for America’s withdrawal. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the […]
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As the US spends its final hours in Afghanistan, Mark Cancian of CSIS notes that more contractors have died (8,000) than US service members (7,000) in post 9/11 operations.
America’s allies in the Middle East are weighing options to avoid meeting the fate of the Afghani government, as regional scholars talk of the post Pax Americana era.
American leaders have reached “out to the Taliban who are actually providing the outer security cordon around the airfield, to make sure they know what we expect them to do to protect us and we will continue to coordinate with them as they go forward,”
The Taliban now faces a decision: Ban the internet as the group did during its first rule, while hindering its propaganda windfall and other online activities, or leave the country's networks intact, allowing an avenue for continued US electronic surveillance.
As missions stretch farther and comms grow less reliable, predictive software could become the edge that keeps missions afloat.
Israeli government sources tell Breaking Defense that if China attempts to expand its defense technology ties with Iran or other regional players of concern to Israel, then Jerusalem may look to curtail its economic agreements with Beijing in retaliation.
India is the one country Sarang Shidore, an expert on South Asia and the Pacific, thinks will be truly worried about the Afghan collapse. "The US," he says, "will have to manage the Indian perceptions once the (Afghan) evacuations are finished."
"We cannot afford to either not defend that airfield, or not have an airfield that secure, where we have hundreds or thousands of civilians that can access the airfield at will and put our forces at risk,” SecDef Austin said.
A Chicago Council survey conducted in July found that 70 percent of Americans backed exiting Afghanistan, a belief that crosses the deep partisan divide between Democrats and Republicans.