{"id":37431,"date":"2021-09-29T03:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/28\/afghanistan-withdrawal-gen-mark-milley-senate"},"modified":"2021-09-29T03:44:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T18:44:22","slug":"us-afghanistan-withdrawal-a-logistical-success-but-strategic-failure-milley-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37431","title":{"rendered":"US Afghanistan withdrawal a \u2018logistical success but strategic failure\u2019, Milley says"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>General and other military leaders in heated cross-examination<\/li>\n<li>Milley defends loyalty to country and rejects suggestion to quit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The withdrawal from Afghanistan and the evacuation of Kabul was \u201ca logistical success but a strategic failure\u201d the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff has told the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Mark Milley gave the stark assessment at an extraordinary hearing of the Senate armed services committee to examine the US departure, which also became a postmortem on the 20-year war that preceded it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/sep\/28\/afghanistan-withdrawal-gen-mark-milley-senate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General and other military leaders in heated cross-examinationMilley defends loyalty to country and rejects suggestion to quitThe withdrawal from Afghanistan and the evacuation of Kabul was \u201ca logistical success but a strategic failure\u201d the chairman of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,50,415,939,61,234,45,473,47,631,2013,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-joe-biden","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-congress","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-military","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-us-senate","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37444,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37431\/revisions\/37444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}