Posted on 08/17/2021 12:01:36 PM PDT by Red Badger
The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General released its quarterly Operation Freedom's Sentinel report to Congress on Tuesday, providing "background about events leading up to recent, significant and fast moving developments in Afghanistan."
The 98-page report reveals what the Pentagon knew about Afghan security forces' capabilities and the threats posed by the Taliban and other terrorist groups in the country. What it shows is that the Biden administration knew that the events of the last few weeks were not only possible but were likely to take place. The report is peppered with DIA intelligence and media reporting that showed the Afghan forces couldn't ward off Taliban aggression without U.S. and coalition support, yet the Biden administration responded with surprise as the Taliban took one provincial capital after another and last weekend arrived in Kabul.
As the IG report outlines, the Biden administration knew that the Afghan forces were unlikely to succeed in slowing or stopping the Taliban's advance, it knew the Taliban had its sights set on Kabul, and it knew that the Taliban was only engaged in political negotiations to seek legitimacy but planned to step up its military offensive to take the country by force. It also warned that plans for Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport were likely insufficient due to a complicated agreement with Turkish forces.
Lead Inspector General Quarterly Report: Operation Freedom’s Sentinel is available here: https://t.co/oTVVG60akO @USAID_OIG @StateOIG pic.twitter.com/tsanF95fGN
— DoD Inspector General (@DoD_IG) August 17, 2021 What Biden and his administration apparently didn't take seriously — as his public statements and those of his senior administration officials from the State Department to the Pentagon show — were reports from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) that said Afghan forces "very likely will struggle" to stop or reverse Taliban advances. Intelligence that the Taliban was preparing for "large-scale offensives against provincial centers and complex attacks" on Afghan installations was also reported, apparently to no avail.
In Pentagon press briefings, Americans were told that the Afghan military — and specifically its air force — had every advantage, a line of messaging repeated by President Biden. But the IG report shows that they knew the Afghan Air Force was "stretched thin" and aircraft were "not receiving required maintenance."
The DIA reported that the Taliban has expanded its influence across Afghanistan after the withdrawal of coalition forces. Following the U.S. withdrawal, the Taliban will probably increase its use of large-scale military operations throughout the country as it grows more confident in its ability to defeat the Afghan government militarily. The DIA reported that the Taliban's strategy will likely focus on overrunning key provincial capitals to set the stage for a military takeover of Kabul. A reduction in U.S. offensive operations, specifically airstrikes and raids, has likely provided the Taliban greater freedom of movement and enabled it to broaden the scope of its military operations and make widespread territorial gains, according to the DIA.
The scenes the world watched at the airport in Kabul were also somewhat predictable given the lack of certainty over security reported by the IG. "At the end of this quarter, the coalition [consisting of U.S. and Turkey's military] had not determined whether keeping an enduring Turkish presence [at Hamid Karzai International Airport] would be possible or what that might entail," the IG report says. Not exactly the "we planned for every contingency" posture the Pentagon and State Department told the American people they'd established.
What's culminated this week in the Taliban's complete takeover of Afghanistan started with the Pentagon's transition to an over-the-horizon model of action, explains the IG report. As a result, the branch of ISIS operating in Afghanistan's Khorasan Province "exploited the political instability and rise in violence during the quarter by attacking minority sectarian targets and infrastructure to spread fear and highlight the Afghan government's inability to provide adequate security," explains the IG report. "Additionally, the Taliban continued to maintain its relationship with al-Qaeda, providing safe haven for the group in Afghanistan."
At the same time, Taliban fighters began their spring offensive by testing the resistance they'd face from Afghan security forces and found them easy to rout. This kicked off the Taliban's expansion of control "through a combination of military offensives, government retreats, and mediation with local officials while pursuing its long-term strategy of gaining influence in rural districts to then apply pressure to the population centers."
What America and the world watched, with equal parts sorrow and horror as America's nearly two-decade presence in Afghanistan collapsed in humiliating fashion, was forewarned. From the Taliban's game plan to the Afghan military's inability to push back to a lack of planning for transportation out of the country in the event such movement was needed, the Biden administration had information at their disposal. They evidently didn't find it compelling or use it to prepare Americans for what we've all now seen.
As for the future and what the Biden administration expects to accomplish once it finishes evacuating personnel at the end of August — that is, a prevention of future attacks against the United States from Afghan soil — the IG reports that if “left unmolested [al-Qaeda] are certainly going to rebuild, re-strengthen themselves, and we have no reason to doubt they…want to attack us in our homeland."
From the @DoD_IG's latest report on Operation Freedom's Sentinel, covering April 1-June 30 and released *today* https://t.co/8DwkArXwMN pic.twitter.com/iMrQXFE33t
— Jared Keller (@jaredbkeller) August 17, 2021
Bkmk
Impeach Joe Biden. He is not fit to serve.
The Biden admin went out of their way to screw up the orderly evacuation of Afghanistan.
-PJ
Perhaps President Biden would be interested in vacation property in San Clemente.
Notice how everyone, including Biden, qualified their statements on the Taliban over the last few months.
Sad to say, but it seems like it’s all part of “the plan.”
DIA pretty much nailed it.
The South Vietnamese were also ready to defend their country from the Vietcong.
Sad to say, but it seems like it’s all part of “the plan.”
A wicked person listens to deceitful lips; a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
“The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.”
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord,
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Liars
You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
They speak falsehood to one another;
With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak.
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Liars
He’s a known liar
..a cheat..a pervert ..and corrupt..did I miss anything?
It is being reported by a lone livid internet observer that Patton, after clawing his way out of his grave in a fit of rage, kicks
Biden in the ass , b!ch slaps him and screams...
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RESCUE OUR CITIZENS !!!!!!
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Minutes later Douglas McArthur claws his way out of his grave also in a fit of rage and stands next to Patton , saying,
George, Biden is a COMMUNIST who is leaving our countries citizens to be butchered by the Taliban ! SLAP HIM SOME MORE !!!
Seems this chaos was intentional. No other way to describe it. So the current administration willingly armed the Taliban. Treason.
President Retard like a deer in the headlights until he gets smashed by a locomotive
Why that damn deep state, it’s out to get another president!
Bump
That was quick.
Almost like it was in the planning from the beginning.
“Screw up the withdrawal from Afghanistan... Blame it on Joe..... Start 25th Amendment proceedings.”
He only lied so he could get a cut of the ransom money, so it’s OK.
Lies are all they have.
L
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