On the anniversary of the last US evacuation of Afghanistan, Col. Salim Faqiri discusses his harrowing escape from the Taliban and his new, difficult life in the US.
"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.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
At the NATO Summit in Brussels, the United States should finalize a plan with its allies to ensure the Afghan air force has the maintenance and logistical support it requires to remain combat effective. The United States and our international partners have worked for years to build an Afghan air force capable of providing effective […]