Paul Szoldra, Task & Purpose: Here’s How Top Military Leaders Have Described US ‘Progress’ In Afghanistan Over The Last Decade
There has been a lot of progress happening in Afghanistan over the 17 years the United States has been fighting there — at least, according to the Pentagon’s top military minds.
Despite the Taliban briefly seizing the city of Ghazni earlier this month — thus sending a message to Afghans that their central government, just 100 miles away in Kabul, can’t protect them — and a one-year-old strategy that hasn’t changed much on the ground in terms of control of districts, the top American commander has joined the chorus of other senior leaders highlighting progress achieved thus far.
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.... Next month, Army Gen. Austin Miller assumes command of the war. He’ll be the ninth American in charge of that effort, out of 18 total commanders in Afghanistan since 2002.
