Unceremonious withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, US review reports next month
According to a spokesman for the US National Security Council, the review of US military withdrawal from Afghanistan is almost complete and a report will be released next month. Secret portions of the report will be shown to congressional oversight committees
An announcement from the White House in Washington said that the process of reviewing the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan is almost complete and a report based on the results of this review will be released in mid-April.
The release of this report is long overdue. After its release, the US Congress and the public will be able to analyze for themselves what went wrong in the chaotic withdrawal from the Hindu Kush state and the closing stages of the longest war in US history. was
The United States withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in 2021 after a two-decade-long war. With this withdrawal, the reign of the country’s government and military, long supported by the US, in Afghanistan was effectively over and the Afghan Taliban returned to power.
After the military withdrawal, US President Joe Biden ordered a review of the entire process and also said that the review should examine all aspects of Washington’s military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
This review report was supposed to be released one year after the American military withdrawal from Afghanistan, i.e. in August 2022, but by then the relevant American agencies could not complete their work in this regard and thus the release of this report was continuously delayed.
On Wednesday, March 22, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in a statement that the review is almost complete and the Biden administration plans to release the report next month. “We expect to release the results (of this analysis) to the public by mid-April,” he said.
John Kirby added that the classified or secret parts of the report that would not be released to the general public would be shown to the oversight committees of the US Congress.
Since the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, several elected members of the US House of Representatives from the Republican Party, the opposition political party opposed to Biden, have been pressuring the government to release the review report and the record of official discussions on the withdrawal. Also issue the documents.
Currently, two levels of investigation are ongoing regarding this military withdrawal. One of them is led by Mike McCall, the Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who also asked US Secretary of State Anthony Blanken for the documents in January. McCall received the first batch of these documents from the State Department on Wednesday.
Blanken will appear before the Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday, March 23, and is likely to be asked tough questions about the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.